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David Berube teaches courses in rhetoric of science and technology, risk communication, legal communication, environmental communication, and argumentation. He has also taught classes in film, popular culture, and science fiction. He coached intercollegiate debating for 20 years and won three national championships and was national coach of the year in 1994. He wrote NON-POLICY DEBATING in 1994, authored dozens of articles and chapters in applied debating, and consulted with the English Speaking Union (UK). He was a journalist for both Gannett and Knight-Ridder and has over 100 articles in print.
Leaving academic debate five years ago, he focused on science communication and has been the principal investigator or co-principal investigator for over $5 million in federal National Science Foundation grants to study risk communication and emerging technologies. In 2006, he published NANO-HYPE: THE TRUTH ABOUT THE NANOTECHNOLOGY BUZZ (Prometheus Press) and blogs regularly at http://nanohype.blogspot.com. He speaks at national and international conferences on nanoscience, emerging technologies, and toxicology. He has published over a dozen articles and chapters on risk perception and the public sphere. He is on the steering committee for the International Council on Nanotechnology. Recently, he helped assemble the EPA National Pollution Prevention of Toxics Advisory Committees Pollution Prevention Conference, and serves on the boards for the Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology, Lifeboat Foundation, etc. He worked with Ketchum Communications, The Gerson-Lehrman Group, the Food Products Association/Grocery Manufacturers Association, etc.
He arrived on campus in January 2008. At NCSU he helped start the Public Communication on Science and Technology (PCOST) Project and has begun publishing the Citizen’s Guide to Nanotechnology series. He is working with a team of scientists and engineers to develop a nano-presence on campus. He will be completing a multi-year grant themed on how the public intuits toxicology which will involve workshops, surveys and focus groups, and graduate assistant support.
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