College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
LSC doctoral candidate James T. Spartz was recently interviewed by WRCO Radio’s “Saturday News at Noon,” based in Richland Center, Wisconsin, about his research on bioenergy issues in Southwest Wisconsin. Spartz reported preliminary results from a survey households in Richland, Crawford and Vernon counties conducted in May and June of 2012. The goal of the research has been to …
LSC faculty members Professors Dominique Brossard and Dietram A. Scheufele, John E. Ross Chair in Science Communication, have published a Perspectives piece in the journal Science. At a time when, as shown by recent research from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 9 out of 10 people in the United States seek out information from Search engines, according to Brossard …
At the 93rd Annual Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation (WFBF) Meeting, LSC alumna, Jenny Dierickx, was selected the winner of the organization’s prestigious Young Farmer and Agriculturist Excellence in Agriculture contest. The winner is determined based on their “involvement in agriculture, leadership ability, involvement and participation in Farm Bureau and other civic and service organizations,” according to the …
LSC doctoral candidate James T. Spartz will join scientists from a range of disciplines this week to take part in a workshop, “Bioenergy Futures: Technical Feasibility Meets Social Sustainability,” from November 29 to December 1. The invitational workshop is sponsored by the Sustainable Michigan Endowment Project (SMEP) and will be held at Michigan State University. The three day …
Congratulations to LSC doctoral candidate Jiyoun Kim, who received a “Honorable Mention” award at the 2012 MAPOR Fellows Student Paper Competition in Chicago during the annual conference November 16 to 17, for her paper “Selective Attention, Primed-Encoding and the Role of Language in Mediated Scientific Messages Processing.” Her research examines whether audiences evaluate a mediated …
A survey completed by assistant professor and UW-Extension communications specialist Bret Shaw and LSC graduate student Camille Rogers revealed good news for Wisconsin wine lovers and devotees of local foods. In their study, Shaw and Rogers interviewed a sample of 25 winemakers in Wisconsin and found that 96 percent of them are using grapes and other fruits …
The saying goes, “a picture says a thousand words.” Well, what about entire movies filled with them? That’s the premise for Sheila Reaves’ LSC 450 class, Photography for the Sciences. In this class taught in the spring, students explore the concept of composing and editing still photography to create documentaries for science and agricultural features …
Recent LSC alumna Ashley A. Anderson (PhD, ’12), now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, leads a paper published in the new book Citizen voices: Performing public participation in science and environment communication, from the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). Citizen Voices is edited by Louise Phillips, Anabela Carvalho, and Julie Doyle. The chapter, …
Alexandra Branscombe, a fifth-year senior in LSC, has received the J.W. Watt Agricultural Journalism Memorial Scholarship and the Douglas D. Sorenson Scholarship. The J.W. Watt Agricultural Journalism Memorial Scholarship is awarded to undergraduate or graduate students who are majoring in Agricultural Journalism or Life Sciences Communication. The Douglas D. Sorenson Scholarship is awarded to undergraduate and graduate students …
LSC doctoral candidate Jill Hopke has research included in a special issue of Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture on environmental justice in international contexts. Hopke’s work explores mainstream and alternative press discourse of conflict over metallic mining in El Salvador. Through identifying mainstream and counter-frames, her analysis shows how Salvadoran anti-mining movement achieved a position of short-term prominence …