College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
LSC doctoral candidate James T. Spartz will join scientists from a range of disciplines this week to take part in a workshop, “Bioenergy Futures: Technical Feasibility Meets Social Sustainability,” from November 29 to December 1. The invitational workshop is sponsored by the Sustainable Michigan Endowment Project (SMEP) and will be held at Michigan State University. The three day …
Congratulations to LSC doctoral candidate Jiyoun Kim, who received a “Honorable Mention” award at the 2012 MAPOR Fellows Student Paper Competition in Chicago during the annual conference November 16 to 17, for her paper “Selective Attention, Primed-Encoding and the Role of Language in Mediated Scientific Messages Processing.” Her research examines whether audiences evaluate a mediated …
A survey completed by assistant professor and UW-Extension communications specialist Bret Shaw and LSC graduate student Camille Rogers revealed good news for Wisconsin wine lovers and devotees of local foods. In their study, Shaw and Rogers interviewed a sample of 25 winemakers in Wisconsin and found that 96 percent of them are using grapes and other fruits …
Recent LSC alumna Ashley A. Anderson (PhD, ’12), now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, leads a paper published in the new book Citizen voices: Performing public participation in science and environment communication, from the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). Citizen Voices is edited by Louise Phillips, Anabela Carvalho, and Julie Doyle. The chapter, …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
LSC doctoral student Sara K. Yeo and doctoral candidate Michael Cacciatore are recipients of Precourt Energy Efficiency Center Student Fellowships to defray the cost of attending this year’s Behavior, Energy and Climate Change conference in Sacramento, California November 12 to 14. The conference is focused on “understanding individual and organizational behavior and decision-making related to energy usage, …