Educational Background

Indiana University, Journalism, BA 1969
Tempe University, Mass Communication, MA 1975
Indiana University, Mass Communication, PhD 1978

Areas of Professional Expertise

Science communication, risk communication, science and environmental journalism, public understanding of science

Current Position and Other Positions Held

Sept 1989 to present	Professor, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Sept 1985 to Aug 1989	Associate Prof., University of Wisconsin—Madison
Sept 1981 to Aug 1985	Assistant Prof., University of Wisconsin—Madison
Sept 1978 to Aug1981	Assistant Prof. Ohio State University
Sept 1977 to Aug1978	Associate Instructor, Ohio State University

List of Current NSF Grants

Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University, senior personnel, National Science Foundation, SES-0531194, 2005-2010, $6.2 million.

Publications

1. Griffin, R.J., Zheng, Y., ter Huurne, E., Boerner, F., Ortiz, S., & Dunwoody, S. 2008. After the flood: Anger, attribution and the seeking of information. Science Communication 29(3): 285-315.
2. Scheufele, D.A., Corley, E. A., Dunwoody, S., Shih, T., Hillback. E. & Guston, D. December 2007. Scientists worry about some risks more than the public. Nature Nanotechnology 2: 732-734.
3. Dunwoody, S. & Griffin, R.J. Risk Communication, Risk Beliefs, and Democracy.” 2007. in D. Brossard, J. Shanahan & C. Nesbitt, eds. The Media, the Public and Agricultural Biotechnology: An International Casebook. Wallingford, UK: CABI Publishing, 264-286.
4. Powell, M., Dunwoody, S., Griffin, R.J., & Neuwirth, K. 2007. Exploring lay uncertainty about an environmental health risk. Public Understanding of Science 16(3):323-343.
5. Kahlor, L., Dunwoody, S., Griffin, R.J. & Neuwirth, K. 2006. Seeking and processing information about impersonal risk. Science Communication 28(2):163-194.

Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors

Michael Ryan, University of Houston; Cleveland Wilhoit, Indiana University (emeritus)