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Education
1987 | PhD | University of Pennsylvania, History & Sociology of Science, and Science & Technology Policy |
1985 | MA | University of Pennsylvania, History & Sociology of Science |
1980 | AB | University of Chicago, General Studies in the Humanities, General and Special Honors |
Positions
2022– | University Ombuds, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY |
2007– | Professor of Science Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Departments of Communication and of Science & Technology Studies. (1987-1993, Assistant Professor; 1993-2007, Associate Professor.) |
2014–2021 | Chair, Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. |
2012 | Presidential Fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation (now, Science History Institute), Philadelphia, PA. |
1978–2012 | Science communication consultant and freelance writer, Chicago, IL, Washington, DC, Philadelphia, PA, Ithaca, NY. (From 2002 to 2012, my consulting operated through Seavoss Associates.) |
2009–2012 | Visiting Professor, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. |
1998–2003 | Editor, Public Understanding of Science (published initially by Institute of Physics, now by Sage Publications) |
1999–2002 | Director, New York Science Education Program (NYSEP), Ithaca, NY. Consortium of six undergraduate colleges and one research university working together to improve undergraduate science education. |
1990–1997 | Associate Editor, Public Understanding of Science. |
1994–1996 | Managing Editor, Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences, Ithaca, NY. |
1986–1987 | Public Education Officer, Center for History of Chemistry, Philadelphia, PA |
1983–1986 | Editorial Coordinator, Isis: Official Journal of the History of Science Society, Philadelphia, PA. |
1982–1983 | Advertising copywriter, Stackig, Sanderson, & White, McLean, VA |
1980–1982 | Chief Researcher, US News & World Report Books, Washington, DC |
Publications
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