David M. Berube

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David M. Berube is a professor of communication at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. His doctorate is from New York University and he has studied and taught communication and cognitive psychology and created the term SEIN (Social and Ethical Implications of Nanotechnology) in his book NanoHype.[1]

Education

New York University PhD. in Media and Culture 1990. He received an MA from Montclair State University in 1978 and a BA/BS from Seton Hall University in 1975.

Career

Since 2008, he directs a program titled the Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCOST).[2] PCOST has focused on consumer and public understanding of highly complicated science and engineering communication activities. He teaches limited graduate coursework (due to his grant responsibilities).

Prior to NCSU, he was a professor at the

FDA Risk Communication Advisory Committee[5] and on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Toxicology Program.[6] These experiences and many others have provided him with a broad exposure and understanding of many subjects[7] and has made him the “outside-in” person who is recruited to deal with a host of interdisciplinary research activities.[8]

After coaching two national championships at the

nanoparticles
both quantitative and critical in nature.

In 1997, he wrote the famous "Berube 97" article on dehumanization that has been used by high school and collegiate debaters in almost every single debate thereafter. In 2006, he wrote Nanohype: The Truth Behind the Nanotechnology Buzz. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Press, 2005, 500 pp. and received over 30 published reviews,.[10][11][12][13][14][15] In 2015 he broadened his interests to include public understanding of synthetic biology[16] and became a research fellow with the Genetic Engineering and Society Center on the campus of North Carolina State. In 2021 he edited Pandemic Communication and Resiliency [17] for Springer/NATURE and in 2023 he wrote a sole author work: Pandemic Risk Management: Lessons from the Zika Virus.

Berube has worked on a series of projects for the corporate world including Director of Communications for the

Institute for Defense Analysis, etc. He has worked as a PI, CoPI, or investigator on approximately $20 million in grants and worked on a major NSA funded grant in the Laboratory for Analytical Science at NCSU where he served on the Mission Enabling Workgroup and the Supply Line Workgroup. He is a CoPI with the Research Triangle Nanotechnology Network (RTNN) as the social and ethical director and assessment officer coordinating in a major infrastructure grant under the National Nanotechnology Initiative's (NNI) National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure in a team headed found in North Carolina's Research Triangle
.

The RTNN involves labs on three campuses: North Carolina State, UNC at Chapel Hill, and Duke. by the Analytical Instrumentation Facility at North Carolina State University including labs at UNC and Duke, specifically Chapel Hill Analytical and Fabrication Facility and (CHANL) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill[18] and the Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMIF) at Duke University.[19]

Berube has consulted as a jobber with the Gerson Lehrman Group and others. He manages the Center for Emerging Technologies, LLC, a consultancy registered in North Carolina.[20]

References

  1. ^ Nanohype: The Truth Behind the Nanotechnology Buzz. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Press, 2005, 500 pp
  2. ^ "Faculty and Staff". communication.chass.ncsu.edu.
  3. ^ "Ross K. Smith National Coach of the Year Award".
  4. ^ "Journal of Nanoparticle Research".
  5. ^ "Risk Communication Advisory Committee". Food and Drug Administration. 19 May 2020.
  6. ^ chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/about_ntp/bsc/current_roster_508.pdf
  7. ^ Berube, D. M., (2013) “Constructing Texts in Fringe Science: Challenges in Propaedeutics”, Poroi 9(1), 1-7. doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2151-2957.1162
  8. ^ Schwartzman, R. (2006). Review of Nano-Hype: The Truth Behind the Nanotechnology Buzz, by David M. Berube. Southern Communication Journal, 71, 413-415
  9. ^ "National Parliamentary Tournament of Excellence – Institute of Competition Sciences".
  10. ^ Whitesides, George, “Travelogues from Lilliput,” American Scientist, September–October 2006 (online) http://www.americanscientist.org/template/BookReviewTypeDetail/assetid/53118
  11. ^ James Lewis, Book Review, Foresight Nanotech Update, 56, Summer Issue, pp. 11-12.
  12. ^ Miller, Sonia, “Are We There Yet?” EH&S Nano News, 1:4, May 2006, 1-2.
  13. ^ Merkel, Michelle, “A Review of Nano-hype: The Truth Behind the nanotechnology Buzz,” Nanotechnology Law and Business, September 2006, 375-381.
  14. ^ Tucker, Patrick, “The Nanotech Gold Rush,” The Futurist, May–June 2006, pp. 14-15, (online) http://www.wfs.org/trend3mj06.htm.
  15. ^ Stuart, Candace “Nano Stripped of Hype Takes on a New Reality,” Small Times, October 2005, p. 40.
  16. ^ “Mosquitoes bite: A Zika story of vector management and gene drives.” In Synthetic Biology: The Risk Assessment, Governance and Communication Landscape, B. D. Trump, C. Cummings, J. Kuzma, and I. Linkov. (Editors). 2019. Springer-NATURE. 143-163.
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  18. ^ "CHANL - Chapel Hill Analytical and Nanofabrication Laboratory". chanl.unc.edu.
  19. ^ "Access to Advanced Capabilities in Cleanroom Fabrication, Materials and Device Characterization, and Imaging - Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility". smif.pratt.duke.edu.
  20. ^ "Faculty and Staff". communication.chass.ncsu.edu.
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