College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
LSC Professor Dietram Scheufele is one of ten noteworthy University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty members who have been named Kellett Mid-Career Award winners for 2014. The award recognizes outstanding faculty who are seven to 20 years past their first promotion to a tenured position. Each year, the Graduate School chooses winners from among departmental, Ph.D. major program …
Two LSC graduate students are on of one of 25 teams competing in the final round of the national Agricultural Innovation Prize Powered by 40 Chances on April 25 and 26 at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. LSC doctoral student Leona Yi-Fan Su and dissertator Kristin Runge are creating the marketing communication and distribution channel strategy for MoniTag, …
Professor emeritus Maurice E. “Maury” White, who oversaw the education of more than 3,000 students as Short Course director, and whose booming baritone was known statewide as the voice of UW farm radio, died on March 15 in Madison at the age of 95. “Maury was the epitome of the Wisconsin Idea,” recalls professor emeritus and WHA …
LSC graduate students and faculty researchers will present six research papers at the annual International Communication Association (ICA) conference in Seattle, Washington, May 22-26. Graduate students Sara Yeo, Nan Li, and Jiyoun Kim were awarded Vilas Conference Presentation funds by the Graduate School to attend the conference. Sara Yeo also received funding from ICA. ICA is …
LSC Professor Patty Loew wears many hats. Loew is a popular professor who teaches courses on digital video production, qualitative research methods and Native American environmental issues and the media. She’s also an author, a documentary filmmaker, and a popular public speaker. To say Loew has a full schedule and busy life is a bit …
Research in the department has evolved alongside our changing media environment. With the advent of new media, we are now conducting studies on how various issues are communicated on a variety of platforms, including Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Here is a sampling of research from our current students and faculty: Kristin Runge and others are …
I kneeled over a small blue box covered in dials, hand poised over a detonator button. I yelled “fire in the hole,” three times (the safety protocol for a test range), then pressed the trigger. The concrete bunker muffled the sound of the explosion as the shape charge fired, but it was still strong enough …
The American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) has announced LSC Professor and Chair Professor Dominique Brossard has been elevated to the rank of fellow. Professor Brossard received the honor “for distinguished contributions to our understanding ofthe role media plays in influencing public opinion and policy about science and technology, particularly controversial scientific innovations.” She will be be …
More than 45 early stage companies spanning products as diverse as medical devices, dairy products, a portable jet ski and a diesel aircraft engine presented to potential investors and others during the 2013 Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium. Many of those presentations at Monona Terrace Convention Center in Madison took place in the seventh annual Wisconsin …
LSC Associate Professor Bret Shaw has co-authored a chapter in a new book titled “Health Communication: Strategies for Developing Global Health Programs.” The chapter, titled “Developing and Testing Mobile Health Applications to Affect Behavior Change: Lessons from the Field,” focuses on how mobile health (mHealth) applications can be potentially powerful behavioral change tools. The authors …