College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
LSC faculty alumnus Andrew R. Binder (Ph.D., ’10), now assistant professor at North Carolina State University, along with Professors Dietram Scheufele and Dominique Brossard, authored a recent opinion piece in The Scientist on the use of public meetings to gauge public opinion on science policy. Town hall meetings may be a good way to hear a range of strong opinions, but as …
WSUM 91.7 FM Madison Student Radio took home 13 Student Awards for Excellence from the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association, announced at the association’s annual student seminar on Saturday, March 3, 2012. WSUM producers won first and second place student awards for Long-Form Production, first for Radio Newscast, first and third for Sports Story, second and third for Sports …
LSC doctoral student Dan Banda has been awarded a Fulbright Specialist 2012 summer appointment to the University of the West, Timisoara, Romania. He will be working with the undergraduate and graduate students and faculty in the departments of English, History and Theology. Banda will be presenting lectures, offering workshops and participating in a conference. His multi-media work will …
LSC doctoral candidate Beth Ryan and Assistant Professor Bret Shaw have published a review article in a recent issue of Human Dimensions of Wildlife on ways to improve hunter recruitment and retention. In the article, “Improving Hunter Recruitment and Retention,” Ryan and Shaw argue that in order to counter declining participation in hunting, recruitment programs need to focus on …
LSC senior Signe Brewster was awarded a fellowship from the National Association of Science Writers(NASW) to cover the 2012 AAAS meeting, which took place from February 16 to 20th in Vancouver, Canada. She authored an article, “Talking dictionaries give endangered languages a global audience,” on the use of online talking dictionaries to preserve and promote endangered languages. …
Doctoral student Xuan Liang, with coauthors doctoral candidate Ashley Anderson, Professor Dietram Scheufele, Associate Professor Dominique Brossard in Life Sciences Communication and Associate Professor Michael Xenos in Communication Arts, has published new research on the role of Google searches in information-seeking on nanotechnology. The paper, “Information snapshots: What Google searches really tell us about emerging …
Recent LSC alumna Anna Bethmann has joined the agricultural marketing firm Osborn & Barr in its St. Louis office. Osborn & Barr is a strategic communications agency with offices in St. Louis and Kansas City that serves clients in production agriculture, outdoor, food and feed industries. Bethmann graduated with a bachelor’s of science in Life Sciences Communication in spring …
LSC faculty member Dietram A. Scheufele, John E. Ross Chaired Professor in Science Communication and co-PI of the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University, serves as a lead organizer for an upcoming National Academy of Sciences (NAS) colloquium on “The Science of Science Communication.” The colloquium will bring together world-renown scholars of science …
2011 LSC graduate Katie Dogs, who is now with the agricultural public relations firm Osborn & Barr’s Animal Practice Group, has been recognized for her outstanding strategic communication work. Dogs authored a press release for Merck Animal Health that was awarded first place in the Best of NAMA-Region II Ceremony in Kansas City earlier this month. You …
LSC doctoral candidate James T. Spartz, working with Assistant Professor Bret Shaw, recently published a paper exploring the varied and sometimes conflicting meanings associated with the UW Arboretum as a public natural area. Their article, “Place Meanings Surrounding an Urban Natural Area: A Qualitative Inquiry,” appears in the December 2011 issue of the Journal of Environmental Psychology. Spartz and Shaw found …