LSC doctoral candidate Jill Hopke has received two research travel grants from the European Union Center of Excellence and the Robert F. and Jean E. Holtz Center for Science & Technology Studies at UW-Madison. The grants will support …
Research
Congratulations to Bret Shaw on receiving tenure
Congratulations to Bret Shaw who has been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure with the Department of Life Sciences Communication. Shaw also serves as Environmental Communication Specialist for University of Wisconsin UW Cooperative Extension. His research over the past …
Masters student Molly Simis participates in the Iowa State University summer symposium on science communication
LSC masters student Molly Simis will be presenting a paper as part of a panel at the Third Iowa State Summer Symposium on Science Communication, May 30 to June 1, 2013, in Ames, Iowa. She wrote …
New SCIMEP research finds how technology is defined can alter public perception
New research from LSC’s scimep lab, out this month in the Journal of Nanoparticle Research, examining priming effects shows how a technology is defined can alter public perception. In the study, LSC alumna Ashley Anderson (Ph.D., ’12) and colleagues …
Faculty members Dominique Brossard and Dietram A. Scheufele co-author science communication article in The New York Times
LSC Professors Dominique Brossard and Dietram A. Scheufele have an opinion piece in today’s New York Times, “This Story Stinks,” about their recent research in The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication examining the effects of incivility in reader comments on perceptions of nanotechnology. Brossard and …
New SCIMEP research on effects of negative online comments published
New research from the Science, Media and the Public (SCIMEP) lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, affiliated with LSC, on the adverse effects of negative comments online is out this week in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. The …
Doctoral student Sara K. Yeo leads paper published in PLoS One
LSC doctoral student Sara K. Yeo leads a paper recently published in PLOS One, “Coastal Bacterioplankton Community Dynamics in Response to a Natural Disturbance.” The paper is based on her masters research at the University of Hawai’i. Yeo and …
LSC researchers publish on the development of nanotechnology discourses in social media environments
LSC doctoral student Kristin K. Runge and a team of Life Sciences Communication researchers have research on nanotechnology Twitter traffic in the January 2013 issue of the Journal of Nanoparticle Research. The study, “Tweeting nano: how public discourses about …
Graduate student Tegan Wendland investigates mental health care in Wisconsin County jails
Working with the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, LSC masters student Tegan Wendland recently published an in-depth report on mental health care at county jails in Wisconsin. The piece, “Ignored and underfunded, mental health care thin at …
Dominique Brossard and Dietram A. Scheufele publish article in Science
LSC faculty members Professors Dominique Brossard and Dietram A. Scheufele, John E. Ross Chair in Science Communication, have published a Perspectives piece in the journal Science. At a time when, as shown by recent research from the Pew Internet and American …