College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
LSC doctoral candidate Jill Hopke has received two research travel grants from the European Union Center of Excellence and the Robert F. and Jean E. Holtz Center for Science & Technology Studies at UW–Madison. The grants will support Hopke’s fieldwork this summer in Sweden and Belgium on the expansion of hydraulic fracturing into Europe and how civil society …
Congratulations to Bret Shaw who has been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure with the Department of Life Sciences Communication. Shaw also serves as Environmental Communication Specialist for University of Wisconsin UW Cooperative Extension. His research over the past few years has focused on how to develop effective social marketing campaigns to encourage pro-environmental behaviors with a specific focus …
LSC masters student Molly Simis will be presenting a paper as part of a panel at the Third Iowa State Summer Symposium on Science Communication, May 30 to June 1, 2013, in Ames, Iowa. She wrote the first draft of the paper she will present during her first semester in LSC Fall 2011, for Professor Dietram …
New research from LSC’s scimep lab, out this month in the Journal of Nanoparticle Research, examining priming effects shows how a technology is defined can alter public perception. In the study, LSC alumna Ashley Anderson (Ph.D., ’12) and colleagues find that defining nanotechnology in terms of novel applications boosters public support for the technology but does not motivate individuals …
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 …
New research from the Science, Media and the Public (SCIMEP) lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, affiliated with LSC, on the adverse effects of negative comments online is out this week in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. The full text of the article is available here. The study is lead by LSC alumna Ashley A. Anderson (Ph.D., ’12) and co-authored by …
LSC doctoral student Sara K. Yeo leads a paper recently published in PLOS One, “Coastal Bacterioplankton Community Dynamics in Response to a Natural Disturbance.” The paper is based on her masters research at the University of Hawai’i. Yeo and her co-authors characterized the moicrobial community in a subtropical embayment using SSU rRNA gene analyses over an 8-month period, which …
LSC doctoral student Kristin K. Runge and a team of Life Sciences Communication researchers have research on nanotechnology Twitter traffic in the January 2013 issue of the Journal of Nanoparticle Research. The study, “Tweeting nano: how public discourses about nanotechnology develop in social media environments,” mapped social media traffic about nanotechnology, finding that Twitter traffic expressing opinion about nanotechnology is …
Working with the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, LSC masters student Tegan Wendland recently published an in-depth report on mental health care at county jails in Wisconsin. The piece, “Ignored and underfunded, mental health care thin at county jails,” co-authored with Rory Linnane and Kate Golden, ran in news outlets around the state, including: the Cap Times, La …
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 …