Tag: Research

Researchers explore place meanings surrounding UW Arboretum as a public natural area

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LSC doctoral candidate James T. Spartz, working with Assistant Professor Bret Shaw, recently published a paper exploring the varied and sometimes conflicting meanings associated with the UW Arboretum as a public natural area. Their article, “Place Meanings Surrounding an Urban Natural Area: A Qualitative Inquiry,” appears in the December 2011 issue of the Journal of Environmental Psychology. Spartz and Shaw found …

Dominique Brossard discusses science communication on the Big Ten Network’s “Office Hours”

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LSC Associate Professor Dominique Brossard appeared on the Big Ten Network’s “Office Hours” to talk about the importance of communicating science beyond the laboratory to broader publics. Brossard discusses the wide-ranging implications of science for society, her work on the her research on the societal implications of new scientific discoveries with the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC). She …

LSC students present at UW Advanced Materials Industrial Consortium annual meeting

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LSC doctoral students Ashley Anderson, Jiyoun Kim and Xuan Liang participated in the UW Advanced Materials Industrial Consortium Annual Meeting, held for industry guests on October 26 and 27 at the Engineering Center Building on the UW–Madison campus. The consortium gives industry the opportunity to learn about the latest materials research conducted on campus, while facilitating technology and …

Student Dan Banda screens documentary on campus

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Dan Banda, a veteran filmmaker and graduate student in Life Sciences Communication, will screen his latest film “A Road from Lubumbashi” on Wednesday, November 2nd, at The Marquee in Union South. Wednesday, November 2, 2011 7:00PM Union South / The Marquee 1308 W. Dayton St. Madison, WI   According to Banda’s filmmaker statement: For over …

LSC researchers explore the effect of news framing on preferences for flood protection policy

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LSC alumnus Timothy K. F. Fung (Ph.D. 2010), along with Professor Dominique Brossard and Isabella Ng, a doctoral candidate in the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of London, explore how news framing enhances ecological worldview preferences regarding flood protection policy in Mass Communication and Society. Their article is entitled, “There is Water Everywhere: How News Framing …

Bret Shaw studies Wisconsin attitudes toward ethanol

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A majority of Wisconsinites support the use of ethanol blends if it keeps dollars and jobs in the United States and reduces air pollution, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Life Sciences Communication. But that support dropped substantially if those surveyed were told that ethanol could harm their …

Paper led by doctoral candidate Ashley Anderson wins AEJMC award

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Ph.D. candidate Ashley Anderson led a paper that won a top three paper award in the faculty competition for the Mass Communication & Society Division at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. The paper, “The new communication environment and its influence on media credibility,” was co-authored by Peter Ladwig (M.S. …

LSC researchers publish on public understanding of science

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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), …