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LSC doctoral students receive student fellowships to attend behavior, energy, and climate change conference

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LSC doctoral student Sara K. Yeo and doctoral candidate Michael Cacciatore are recipients of Precourt Energy Efficiency Center Student Fellowships to defray the cost of attending this year’s Behavior, Energy and Climate Change conference in Sacramento, California November 12 to 14.  The conference is focused on “understanding individual and organizational behavior and decision-making related to energy usage, …

lsc student taylor fritsch shares his experiences interning at the national swine registry

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LSC undergraduate student Taylor Fritsch is interning at the National Swine Registry this summer in West Lafayette, Indiana. Fristch has been busy helping to prepare the Registry’s pig shows and assignments for its magazine, Seedstock EDGE. He was kind enough to share some of his experiences so far this summer with us back at Hiram Smith Hall via email. …

lsc senior marcus hasheider interviewed in progressive dairyman

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LSC senior Marcus Hasheider is interning this summer with Filament Marketing LLC as a marketing and communications intern. He was recently interviewed by Progressive Dairyman for its 2012 Agricultural Intern section. Here’s Hasheider on why he wants to work in the agricultural industry: “The industry needs passionate and hardworking people who can communicate and educate the general public and …

LSC researchers present more than a dozen papers at summer conferences

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LSC graduate student and faculty researchers will give more than a dozen research presentations at conferences over the course of the summer in the U.S. and abroad. Topics range from cross-cultural analysis of climate change perceptions to incivility in online comments effects on political participation and factors contributing to volunteer commitment to a stream monitoring …

LSC researchers on the promise of the internet for informing public about science

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LSC doctoral candidate Michael Cacciatore and John E. Ross Professor Dietram A. Scheufele investigate public gaps in nanotechnology knowledge in their forthcoming article in Public Understanding of Science. Their findings show that while nanotechnology knowledge gaps are forming between the least and most educated segments of society, increased science Internet use among low education groups can serve to close these …

Doctoral student Leona Yi-Fan Su leads paper presented at PCST conference in Florence

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LSC doctoral student Leona Yi-Fan Su recently presented a study at the annual convention of the International Network on Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) in Florence, Italy. The study, “Audience tectonics: Implications of changing news environments for public understanding of science,” reveals that audiences for science news are shifting rapidly with younger people turning away …

lsc senior kevin king brings the wisconsin idea to badgers locally and around the world

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Graduating LSC senior Kevin King will speak at the department’s scholarship reception on Monday, April 30, 2012, at Union South. A double major in Life Sciences Communication and Neurobiology, with a Certificate in Leadership, King has distinguished himself during his time on campus as a member of the UW MadHatters, the Wisconsin Alumni Student Board and educating primary …

uw nama chapter wins fourth place at national competition

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Last week 14 CALS students presented their marketing plan for the product “Easy AI” at the National Agri-Marketing Association’s (NAMA)  Student Marketing Competition held at the national conference in Kansas City. Twenty-nine teams from across the country competed – six were named as finalists. Our very own UW–Madison NAMA team achieved fourth place honors! Iowa state walked away …

LSC researchers explore differences in traditional and online nanotechnology media coverage

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A team of LSC researchers recently published an article in New Media & Society that explores media coverage of nanotechnology. Their study, “Coverage of emerging technologies: A comparison between print and online media,” examines differences in volume and thematic coverage between US print newspapers and two popular online sources: Google News and Google Blog Search. The abstract …

Doctoral student Jill Hopke has video essay featured in this year’s digital salon

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LSC doctoral student Jill Hopke has work included in the the third annual UW–Madison Digital Salon, running until April 20th in College Library’s Open Book Café. You can view the exhibit online here. Her video essay, “Pacific Rim Gold Mining in El Salvador: From Here to There,” was produced as a final project for SLIS 875: New Media, …