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2007 Affiliate Members
Jeffrey Blevins
Greenlee School of Journalism & Communication
Hamilton 115
294-3488
blevins@iastate.edu
TEACHING
Mass Communication law, Electronic media, Technology & public policy,
Media & society, media ethics
RESEARCH
Communication law and policy, and the political economy of electronic
media industries
AREAS OF INTEREST RELATED TO SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
U.S. policymaking process, and how legislative bodies, administrative
agencies and news media may use, misuse or ignore scientific research
in the formation of policy, or in the reporting of news
Dennis Chamberlin
Greenlee School of Journalism & Communication
151 Hamilton
294-1559
dennisch@iastate.edu
TEACHING
Documentary photography and visual communications
RESEARCH
Documenting changes in society related to integrtaion of technology in
our lives
AREAS OF INTEREST RELATED TO SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Changes that rural communites are experiencing because of economic and
agricultural issues
Carolyn Cutrona
Psychology
2625 N. Loop Dr. Suite 500
294-6784
ccutrona@iastate.edu
TEACHING
Psychology of close relationships, social psychology
RESEARCH
Stress, coping, neighborhood effects on mental health
AREAS OF INTEREST RELATED TO SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Environmental influences on mental health
Carla Fehr
Philosophy and Religious Studies
Catt 402
294-7276
cfehr@iastate.edu
TEACHING
Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Feminist Philosophy
RESEARCH & AREAS OF INTEREST RELATED TO SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Social context and the construction of scientific explanations of biological
phenomena (sexual reproduction), Social diversity and scientific practice;
social values and implicit discrimination (see application for details)
Hongli Feng
Economics & CARD
Heady 560D
294-6307
hfeng@iastate.edu
TEACHING
Public Finance
RESEARCH & AREAS OF INTEREST RELATED TO SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Environmental Economics
Rachel Ferreira
World Languages and Cultures
Pearson 3240
294-4043
rachelhf@iastate.edu
TEACHING
Latin Americanist (Spanish and Portuguese)
RESEARCH Science Fiction
AREAS OF INTEREST RELATED TO SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Science fiction as reflecting socio-cultural and historical trends. Interested
in interdisciplinary research/teaching
Cornelia Flora
Sociology
Curtiss 107
294-1329
cflora@iastate.edu
TEACHING
Community economic development, Sociology of food and agriculture; resource
management
RESEARCH
Community capitals and sustainable communities
AREAS OF INTEREST RELATED TO SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Social impacts of changing technology on land use and local communities;
community utilization of technologies (IT, industrial, agricultural)
Jean Goodwin
English
Ross 223
294-3477
goodwin@iastate.edu
TEACHING
Public speaking, argumentation, history of rhetorical practice & theory,
legal communication
RESEARCH Theory of civic deliberation - argumentative talk from which
public policy arises, scholarship of teaching & learning argumentation
AREAS OF INTEREST RELATED TO SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Persuasive appeals and framing in the debates and discussions of the emerging
bio-economy in Iowa; techniques for handling the systematic complexity,
broad spatial horizon and deep extension in time
David Hennessy
Economics - Ag
Heady 578C
294-6171
Hennessy@iastate.edu
TEACHING
Commodity markets, Derivatives, Industrial Organization
RESEARCH & AREAS OF INTEREST RELATED TO SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Technology Adoption, Animal Disease, Biosecurity, Risk, Agricultural Industrialization
Heike Hofmann
Statistics
Snedecor 122
294-8948
hofmann@iastate.edu
TEACHING
Statistics
RESEARCH
Multivariate Categorical Data, Visualization, Exploratory Data Analysis
AREAS OF INTEREST RELATED TO SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Exploratory Data Analysis, Visualization, Categorical Data
Lee Honeycutt
English
Ross 441
294-4617
honeyl@iastate.edu
TEACHING
Rhetoric of technology, website design, desktop management
RESEARCH & AREAS OF INTEREST RELATED TO SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Rhetoric of energy politics, information design
Helen Jensen
Economics, CARD
Heady 578
294-6253
hhjensen@iastate.edu
TEACHING
Agricultural marketing
RESEARCH Food and nutrition policies, food safety, risk analysis and consumer
interests
AREAS OF INTEREST RELATED TO SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Food safety, risk assessment, public policies related to food, nutrition
and food safety issues
George Kraus
Chemistry
Gilman 2759
294-7794
gakraus@iastate.edu
TEACHING
Organic chemistry
RESEARCH
Catalysis, Biofuels, Conversion of byproducts of biofuel production into
value-added materials
AREAS OF INTEREST RELATED TO SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Explaining our research to public, Understanding the economic and social
ramifications of our research
Michael Larsen
Statistics
Snedecor 220
294-5189
larsen@iastate.edu
TEACHING & RESEARCH
Statistics, survey sampling, missing data, statistical modeling
AREAS OF INTEREST RELATED TO SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Surveys in rural areas, data collection in Iowa's population affected
by bioeconomy
GianCarlo Moschini
Economics
Heady 583
294-5761
moschini@iastate.edu
TEACHING
Microeconomics, game theory
RESEARCH
Economics
AREAS OF INTEREST RELATED TO SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Economics of innovation; economics of agricultural biotechnologies; economics
of intellectual property rights; economics of biofuel polices
Basil Nikolau
Biochemistry, Biophysics, Molecular Biology
MBB 2210
294-9423
dimmas@iastate.edu
TEACHING
Biochemistry, biotechnology, biorenewables
RESEARCH
Biotechnology and genomics of biorenewables
AREAS OF INTEREST RELATED TO SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
The interaction between science, society issues and poly making decisions
Peter Orazem
Economics
Heady 267
294-8656
pfo@iastate.edu
TEACHING
Labor Economics
RESEARCH
Economic development, human capital, labor productivity, compensation
AREAS OF INTEREST RELATED TO SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Technology adoption, growth and compensation
Nicola Pohl
Chemistry and the Plant Sciences Institute
Gilman 2756
294-2339
npohl@iastate.edu
TEACHING
Organic chemistry, Chemical biology
RESEARCH
Carbohydrate synthesis, enzymology, and immunology as it relates to vaccine
development and plant polysaccharide studies AREAS OF INTEREST RELATED
TO SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Energy policy, chemical/environmental pollution, human and animal vaccine
policies
Mack Shelley
Statistics
Snedecor 323
294-8346
mshelley@iastate.edu
TEACHING
Statistics, social science research methods, public policy and evaluation
RESEARCH
Biotechnology, electron government, transportation, education
AREAS OF INTEREST RELATED TO SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Bioeconomy, information technology
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