The following is a press release published by the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences which has been republished here. Wolfgang Hoffmann, who chronicled CALS on film for 45 years, passed away in his home on …
Teaching & Outreach
Patty Loew helps coordinate ceremonial tobacco plants at UW
LSC Professor Patty Loew works extensively with Native communities in Wisconsin. She is co-leading the Native Nations Initiative between UW-Madison, UW-Extension and UW Colleges, and she co-founded the Tribal Youth Media Initiative with fellow LSC …
Paul Fanlund: For embattled UW, is blasting back smart?
The following column was written by Paul Funland, editor and executive publisher of The Capital Times. It’s been published by The Capital Times and republished here. In March 2013, Rebecca Blank had to know the touchy …
Agri-marketing team brings home national championship
The University of Wisconsin–Madison’s National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA) marketing team brought home the national championship on Thursday, April 14. The students also earned $5,500 in scholarships, out of a total $9,000 up for grabs among …
Spring 2016 Colloquium still delivering exciting lineup
Mark your calendars: The LSC colloquium is once again bringing an exciting lineup of speakers for students and faculty alike. Attendees of the colloquium will hear from experts in risk, science communication, health communication, science …
Alumni profile: Signe Brewster’s LSC education leads to writing career in Silicon Valley
Whether it’s artificial intelligence, virtual reality, robots, 3-D printing, drones, or space, Signe Brewster’s got it covered. This 2012 graduate of the Department of Life Sciences Communication (LSC) puts what she learned during her undergrad …
Life On the Air: An Interview With Larry Meiller
In 1967, Larry Meiller was in his final semester of college to graduate as a meat and animal sciences major when he decided to take a radio class in the Department of Agricultural Journalism, now …
Junior Sarah Krier brings Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic to youth camp
Sarah Krier, a junior majoring in life sciences communication and environmental studies, had already spent two seasons as a camp counselor in Hudson. But this past summer she wanted to do something deeper: impart the …
Advanced classes help students explore risk communication and internships
What do the country’s largest forestry research and development laboratory, a company working to improve infection prevention, and another that uses breath-analyzing technology to advance point-of-care diagnostics all have in common? They each utilized the …
Dietram Scheufele named to NAS gene editing panel
Dietram Scheufele, professor of life sciences communication at UW-Madison and Morgridge Institute for Research affiliate, will serve on a national panel examining the implications of human genome editing. The committee, announced Nov. 12 by the National …