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 …
lsc students compose thought-provoking documentaries using still photography
The saying goes, “a picture says a thousand words.” Well, what about entire movies filled with them? That’s the premise for Sheila Reaves’ LSC 450 class, Photography for the Sciences. In this class taught in …
Alumna Ashley A. Anderson leads book chapter published in Citizen Voices
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 …
alexandra branscombe receives two prestigious scholarships
Alexandra Branscombe, a fifth-year senior in LSC, has received the J.W. Watt Agricultural Journalism Memorial Scholarship and the Douglas D. Sorenson Scholarship. The J.W. Watt Agricultural Journalism Memorial Scholarship is awarded to undergraduate or graduate students who are …
Doctoral candidate Jill Hopke publishes in Environmental Communication
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 …
lsc alumnus john rozum awarded nama 2012 professional development award of excellence
The National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA) awarded Life Sciences Communication alumnus, John Rozum, one of its four prestigious 2012 Professional Development Awards of Excellence. The award is given out on the basis of “outstanding achievement in …
LSC researchers publish in the yearbook of nanotechnology in society
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, …
sony creative software donates software updates to lsc for video production classes and outreach
With the start of the fall semester just around the corner, LSC is pleased to receive a $15,000 donation of software from Sony Creative Software. This generous donation will enable the department to use the latest …
lsc senior lauren etter brings her writing and cooperative management skills to an internship at the credit union executive society this summer
As summer draws to a close, LSC senior Lauren Etter shared with those of us at Hiram Smith Hall how she has applied her coursework in writing, marketing and cooperatives in an internship with the Credit …
LSC researchers publish on operationalizations of scientific understanding in science and public policy
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 …