Category: Experts

How do we make sense of sense? For Noah Feinstein, the answer is plural.

This article, by Chelsea Severin, is part of a series highlighting members of the Office of Sustainability’s Experts Database. In a collaboration with instructor Hannah Monroe’s course, LSC 561: Writing Science for the Public, students interviewed campus sustainability experts and produced short feature stories.  Dr. Noah Feinstein is worried about climate change.   “Lots of academics …

Driven by the Wisconsin Idea, Claudio Gratton works to understand and support communities of Wisconsin insects — and people

This article, by Talia O’Shea, is part of a series highlighting members of the Office of Sustainability’s Experts Database. In a collaboration with instructor Hannah Monroe’s course, LSC 561: Writing Science for the Public, students interviewed campus sustainability experts and produced short feature stories.  Insects often get a bad reputation, triggering feelings of annoyance at …

Anita Thompson’s lab finds insights in climate change’s impacts on water resources

This article, by Kally Arnzen, is part of a series highlighting members of the Office of Sustainability’s Experts Database. In a collaboration with instructor Hannah Monroe’s course, LSC 561: Writing Science for the Public, students interviewed campus sustainability experts and produced short feature stories. As a native Midwesterner, Anita Thompson recalls that her childhood winters …

Emotion, rather than information, influences climate denial, Lyn Van Swol’s research finds

This article, by Dinesh Baskaran, is part of a series highlighting members of the Office of Sustainability’s Experts Database. In a collaboration with instructor Hannah Monroe’s course, LSC 561: Writing Science for the Public, students interviewed campus sustainability experts and produced short feature stories. Accessing knowledge has become increasingly easy in recent decades. Scientific facts …

Mohan Qin’s lab uses technology to create a new alternative for fertilizer

This article, by Cole Diepersloot, is part of a series highlighting members of the Office of Sustainability’s Experts Database. In a collaboration with instructor Hannah Monroe’s course, LSC 561: Writing Science for the Public, students interviewed campus sustainability experts and produced short feature stories. According to the USDA, in 2022 more than 22 million acres …

Feng He’s research looks “to reproduce past climate change to predict the future”

This article, by Matheus Pupo, is part of a series highlighting members of the Office of Sustainability’s Experts Database. In a collaboration with instructor Hannah Monroe’s course, LSC 561: Writing Science for the Public, students interviewed campus sustainability experts and produced short feature stories.   Venice—a city renowned for its intricate canal system—faces increasingly frequent …

New research by Philip Mulder studies the equity of crowdfunding support for natural disasters

This article, by Talia Bartosch, is part of a series highlighting members of the Office of Sustainability’s Experts Database. In a collaboration with instructor Hannah Monroe’s course, LSC 561: Writing Science for the Public, students interviewed campus sustainability experts and produced short feature stories.  A new study finds that those with a higher income receive …

For Gregory Nemet, hope for the climate’s future may just come from the past

This article, by Bryce Johnson, is part of a series highlighting members of the Office of Sustainability’s Experts Database. In a collaboration with instructor Hannah Monroe’s course, LSC 561: Writing Science for the Public, students interviewed campus sustainability experts and produced short feature stories.  Many Americans look to the future to solve climate change, whether …

Diego Román’s research on how multilingual communities experience climate change comes “from a place of humbleness”

This article, by Sarah Matysiak, is part of a series highlighting members of the Office of Sustainability’s Experts Database. In a collaboration with instructor Hannah Monroe’s course, LSC 561: Writing Science for the Public, students interviewed campus sustainability experts and produced short feature stories.  Growing up in Quito, Ecuador’s bustling capital city of 1.7 million …

Improving the “social license” of nuclear waste management

This article, by Molly Aslin, is part of a series highlighting members of the Office of Sustainability’s Experts Database. In a collaboration with instructor Madeline Fisher’s course, LSC 561: Writing Science for the Public, students interviewed campus sustainability experts and produced short feature stories. Professor Paul Wilson, who is the Grainger Professor of Nuclear Engineering …