College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
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 …
The National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA) awarded Life Sciences Communication alumnus, John Rozum, one of its four prestigious 2012 Professional Development Awards of Excellence. The award is given out on the basis of “outstanding achievement in each of the professional development areas: marketing communications, product/species management, public relations, and sales,” according to the National NAMA website. Rozum …
LSC researchers, lead by doctoral student Doo-Hun Choi, co-authoring with Anthony Dudo, now Assistant Professor of Advertising and Public Relations at the University of Texas-Austin and Dietram A. Scheufele, John E. Ross Professor of Science Communication, have a chapter in the 2013 Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society, Nanotechnology, the Brain, and the Future, edited by Sean A. Hays, …
With the start of the fall semester just around the corner, LSC is pleased to receive a $15,000 donation of software from Sony Creative Software. This generous donation will enable the department to use the latest versions of Sony software programs Vegas Pro, Acid Pro, DVD Architect and Sound Forge Pro in its video production courses …
As summer draws to a close, LSC senior Lauren Etter shared with those of us at Hiram Smith Hall how she has applied her coursework in writing, marketing and cooperatives in an internship with the Credit Union Executive Society (CUES) this summer. Thank you for sharing Lauren! What appealed to you about interning with Credit Union Executive …
In an article in Science and Public Policy, LSC alumni Pete Ladwig (M.S., ’11) and Kajsa E. Dalrymple (Ph.D., ’11), now assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa, along with LSC faculty members Dominique Brossard and Dietram A. Scheufele, as well as Elizabeth A. Corley, of the Center of Nanotechnology and Society and the …
Current LSC undergraduate student Marcus Hasheider, interning this summer at Filament Marketing, LLC and alum Tom Breunig, who recently joined SCR Dairy as general manager of U.S. business, are featured in the summer 2012 edition of SICKLE & SHEAF, the magazine of the Alpha Gamma Rho Agriculture Fraternity. Breunig joined SCR Dairy as in May as the Israel-based dairy …
Doctoral student Heather Akin will receive a top-student paper honor at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) conference in Chicago from the ComSHER (Communicating Science, Health, Environment and Risk) division. Her paper, “Concern about Climate Change: A Cross-National Analysis of Political, Cultural, and Media Influences” analyzes the effect of the political structure, economic status, and …
LSC doctoral candidate James Spartz leads a double life. While working on a dissertation project investigating public perceptions and opinion leadership around bioenergy issues in Southwest Wisconsin he also finds time to log hours as a public affairs specialist and science writer for the US Forest Service’s Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) in Madison. Spartz recently co-authored a piece with …