College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
LSC students are learning the impacts of scientific breakthroughs at the interface of science and society in LSC 251: Science, Media, and Society. “We live in a world where scientific breakthroughs such as nanoscience or synthetic biology bring applications to the marketplace much quicker than ever before,” said professor Dietram Scheufele, who teaches the class …
The Department of Life Sciences Communication partnered with the Arts Institute and other entities across campus to put on a one-day Communicating Science training for UW–Madison scientists on Monday, March 30. LSC professor Dietram Scheufele gave the opening plenary talk titled “The Science of Science Communication: Why Knowing Your Audience Matters.” Ron Seely, LSC senior lecturer …
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 …
A recent report by the International Journal of Public Opinion Research shows that research by LSC professors Dominique Brossard and Dietram Scheufele, along with alumna Shirley Ho, are among the 10 most cited as of October 1, 2013. Scheufele’s article on a media effects theory is the fourth most highly cited, while Brossard’s paper on …
LSC students are learning the impacts scientific breakthroughs have on the interface of science and technology in LSC 251, “Science, Media, and Society” taught by Dietram A. Scheufele, John E. Ross Chair in Science Communication. “We live in a world where scientific breakthrough such as nanoscience or synthetic biology bring applications to the marketplace much quicker …
LSC Professors Dominique Brossard and Dietram A. Scheufele have an opinion piece in today’s New York Times, “This Story Stinks,” about their recent research in The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication examining the effects of incivility in reader comments on perceptions of nanotechnology. Brossard and Scheufele write: “The Web, it should be said, is still a marvelous place for public debate. But when it comes …
LSC faculty members Professors Dominique Brossard and Dietram A. Scheufele, John E. Ross Chair in Science Communication, have published a Perspectives piece in the journal Science. At a time when, as shown by recent research from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 9 out of 10 people in the United States seek out information from Search engines, according to Brossard …
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 …
LSC doctoral students Ashley Anderson and Michael Cacciatore with LSC Professor Dietram A. Scheufele, published in Public Understanding of Science this May 2011 issue. Anderson collaborated with Jason A. Delborne, Daniel Lee Kleinman, Mathilde Colin, and Maria Powell in an article titled “Virtual deliberation? Prospects and challenges for integrating the Internet in consensus conference”. Cacciatore and LSC Professor Dietram A. Scheufele (with ASU’s Elizabeth Corley), …