College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
Biography Sarah Botham is a marketing and public relations consultant with clients in the science, agriculture, lifestyle, and tourism industries. She is also an entrepreneur, writer, and educator. As a faculty associate for the Department of Life Sciences Communication, Sarah brings a unique blend of business acumen and agriculture marketing and communications experience to the …
Biography Dominique Brossard is a professor in the Department of Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an affiliate of the UW–Madison Robert & Jean Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies, the UW–Madison Energy Institute, the UW–Madison Global Health Institute, and the UW–Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. She is also a principal investigator at the Morgridge Institute for Research. …
Biography Abigail Brown is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Life Sciences Communication, working with the Todd Newman Research Laboratory. She earned a Ph.D. in Human Behavior and Design and a B.S. in Design and Environmental Analysis from Cornell University. Brown studies how people, particularly children and youth, understand and respond to information …
Biography Kaiping Chen is an Associate Professor of Computational Communication in the Department of Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is also affiliated with the Data Science Institute, the Department of Political Science, the Robert & Jean Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies, the Center for East Asian Studies, the African …
Biography Sedona Chinn is an associate professor in the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is also a faculty affiliate in the Information School, the Robert & Jean Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies, and Life Sciences Communication. She researches how communities navigate and make sense of competing and contradictory information …
Biography Jenell Johnson is a professor in the Department of Communication Arts and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Life Sciences Communication. She researches and teaches courses on the rhetoric of science and the rhetoric of medicine, and her perspective is deeply inflected by the field of disability studies, which contributes social, ethical, and political …
Biography Nan Li is an associate professor in the Department of Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is affiliated with the Robert F. and Jean E. Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies, the McPherson Eye Research Institute, the Office of Sustainability, and the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. Li teaches undergraduate and …
Biography Cameron D. Mackey is a Researcher I in the Department of Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin. He is a recent recipient of a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Ohio University. He also received an M.S. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and B.S. in both Psychology and …
Biography Kelly Mella, a lifelong resident of Wisconsin, has focused her professional life on communication for the public good. As Teaching Faculty in the Department of Life Sciences Communication, she helps undergraduate and graduate students learn how to write about science for both other scientists and the public, and directs one of LSC’s courses that …
Biography Todd P. Newman is an associate professor in the Department of Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, an affiliate of the Robert F. and Jean E. Holtz Center for Science & Technology Studies, the Center for Climatic Research, the Wisconsin Energy Institute, the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, and the Morgridge Institute for …