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 …
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Dominique Brossard discusses science communication on the Big Ten Network’s “Office Hours”
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 …
LSC students present at UW Advanced Materials Industrial Consortium annual meeting
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 …
Student Dan Banda screens documentary on campus
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 …
LSC researchers explore the effect of news framing on preferences for flood protection policy
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 …
Bret Shaw studies Wisconsin attitudes toward ethanol
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 …
Paper led by doctoral candidate Ashley Anderson wins AEJMC award
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 …
LSC researchers publish on public understanding 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 …