Position:
Professor at Marquette University
Work:
Marquette University
since Aug 1978
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Professor
National Research Council Committee on Emerging Issues and Data on Environmental Contaminants
- Washington, DC 2002 - 2007
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Member
Wisconsin Focus on Energy Pilot Advertising Project
- Northeastern Wisconsin 1999 - 2002
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Consultant
Local Emergency Planning Committee
- Milwaukee County, Wisconsin 1988 - 1998
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Chair, Communications and Public Relations Committee
University of Wisconsin Center Rock County, Janesville WI
Sep 1973 - May 1978
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Instructor, Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Madison, WI Jan 1973 - Aug 1973
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Project Assistant, Leonardo Scholars
U.S. Air Force, Strategic Air Command, Grand Forks AFB, ND
Nov 1969 - Dec 1972
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Military service
American Institute for Political Communication
- Milwaukee, WI Mar 1968 - Mar 1969
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Door-to-door political survey interviewer
Education:
University of Wisconsin-Madison 1973 - 1980
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mass Communication Research
Honor & Awards:
Received Marquette University's highest career-long teaching honor, the Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence ("Teacher of the Year Award"), based on student and faculty nominations. May 1997.
Elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2007, for “distinguished contributions to the public understanding of science through research on public use of information to make risk judgments,” according to the AAAS award letter.
One of the top three authors of journal articles in the field of environmental communication, according to a multi-decade citation analysis conducted by Andrew Pleasant, Jennifer Good, James Shanahan, and Brad Cohen (2002), “The Literature of Environmental Communication,” Public Understanding of Science 11, 197-205.