College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
LSC graduate student and faculty researchers will give more than a dozen research presentations at conferences over the course of the summer in the U.S. and abroad. Topics range from cross-cultural analysis of climate change perceptions to incivility in online comments effects on political participation and factors contributing to volunteer commitment to a stream monitoring …
LSC doctoral candidate Michael Cacciatore and John E. Ross Professor Dietram A. Scheufele investigate public gaps in nanotechnology knowledge in their forthcoming article in Public Understanding of Science. Their findings show that while nanotechnology knowledge gaps are forming between the least and most educated segments of society, increased science Internet use among low education groups can serve to close these …
LSC doctoral student Leona Yi-Fan Su recently presented a study at the annual convention of the International Network on Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) in Florence, Italy. The study, “Audience tectonics: Implications of changing news environments for public understanding of science,” reveals that audiences for science news are shifting rapidly with younger people turning away …
A team of LSC researchers recently published an article in New Media & Society that explores media coverage of nanotechnology. Their study, “Coverage of emerging technologies: A comparison between print and online media,” examines differences in volume and thematic coverage between US print newspapers and two popular online sources: Google News and Google Blog Search. The abstract …
LSC doctoral student Jill Hopke has work included in the the third annual UW–Madison Digital Salon, running until April 20th in College Library’s Open Book Café. You can view the exhibit online here. Her video essay, “Pacific Rim Gold Mining in El Salvador: From Here to There,” was produced as a final project for SLIS 875: New Media, …
LSC faculty alumnus Andrew R. Binder (Ph.D., ’10), now assistant professor at North Carolina State University, along with Professors Dietram Scheufele and Dominique Brossard, authored a recent opinion piece in The Scientist on the use of public meetings to gauge public opinion on science policy. Town hall meetings may be a good way to hear a range of strong opinions, but as …
LSC doctoral student Dan Banda has been awarded a Fulbright Specialist 2012 summer appointment to the University of the West, Timisoara, Romania. He will be working with the undergraduate and graduate students and faculty in the departments of English, History and Theology. Banda will be presenting lectures, offering workshops and participating in a conference. His multi-media work will …
LSC doctoral candidate Beth Ryan and Assistant Professor Bret Shaw have published a review article in a recent issue of Human Dimensions of Wildlife on ways to improve hunter recruitment and retention. In the article, “Improving Hunter Recruitment and Retention,” Ryan and Shaw argue that in order to counter declining participation in hunting, recruitment programs need to focus on …
Doctoral student Xuan Liang, with coauthors doctoral candidate Ashley Anderson, Professor Dietram Scheufele, Associate Professor Dominique Brossard in Life Sciences Communication and Associate Professor Michael Xenos in Communication Arts, has published new research on the role of Google searches in information-seeking on nanotechnology. The paper, “Information snapshots: What Google searches really tell us about emerging …
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 …