Faculty & Researchers

Professor Dietram Scheufele

Dietram A. Scheufele is Professor of Life Sciences Communication and Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Wisconsin PI of (CNS-ASU).

He is currently a member of the Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group to the U.S. President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists, a joint committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Bar Association.

Scheufele is also co-leader of the Public Opinion and Values Research Team for CNS-ASU. This work is part of his larger research agenda on public attitudes toward science and technology. This includes numerous studies exploring the public opinion dynamics and media coverage surrounding nanotechnology, stem cell research, GMOs, and other emerging technologies.

Professor Sharon Dunwoody

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Professor Daniel Kleinman

Daniel Lee Kleinman is the director of the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also a professor in the Department of Rural Sociology. One strand of his work for over a decade has concerned the relationship between democracy and expertise. Kleinman's specific interest in how lay citizens can intelligently participate in decisions about highly technical matters led him to co-organize a consensus conference on nanotechnology in Madison, Wisconsin in the spring of 2005.

Jason Delborne

Jason is a postdoctoral researcher in the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is working with a team of researchers around the country on a multi-sited consensus conference on nanotechnology: The National Citizens Technology Forum on Nanotechnology. Utilizing both face-to-face conversations and online deliberation, citizen panels at six universities will interact with experts and one another to develop policy proposals that relate to the topic of human enhancement with nanotechnology. Jason’s interests include understanding how citizens develop expertise and power in the governance of technology and research and how best to create institutional forms that encourage constructive deliberation among citizens and scientists. His prior research has focused on the practice of scientific dissent and the construction of public audiences during highly politicized controversies.

Tsung-Jen Shih

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Anthony Dudo

Anthony is a doctoral student in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is assisting with projects examining media coverage and public opinion of nanotechnology. Anthony's primary interest focuses on media representations of scientific and environmental issues and the roles these depictions play on public dispositions toward these issues. His research has examined topics including avian influenza, stem cell research, and oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.