Rick Borchelt

Jon Miller

RICK BORCHELT AND JON MILLER ELECTED AAAS FELLOWS

NASW members Rick E. Borchelt and Jon D. Miller have been elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Borchelt is director of communications and public affairs for Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He is being honored for “outstanding work to advance and to engage the public in the interests of science and technology.” A biologist by training, Borchelt practiced science and technology public affairs at the University of Maryland, the National Academy of Sciences (and its sister organizations, the Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Engineering), was press secretary to the House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology under the chairmanship of the Hon. George E. Brown, and a White House special assistant for science and technology public affairs. From 1998 to 2001, Borchelt chaired a blue-ribbon panel of science communicators, journalists, and scientists in a survey of best practices in science and technology communications at U.S. research institutions. Borchelt is a former NASW Board Member and past president of the DC Science Writers Association.

Miller is director of the Center for Biomedical Communications and a professor in the Feinberg School of Medical at Northwestern University. He is being honored for “leading research in the development and evaluation of communications products for the public, especially for efforts to measure and enhance scientific literary.” Trained as a political scientist, Miller brings the social science skills of survey research and quantitative analysis to the study of the public understanding of science and technology. For two decades, he has designed and conducted the biennial national studies of the public understanding of science and technology for the National Science Board. His work in the measurement of scientific literacy and attitudes has been replicated in more than 30 countries. He is the author of four books and more than 100 articles and chapters on public understanding of and attitudes toward science and technology. Miller is a member of the Committee on the Public Understanding of Science and Technology of the AAAS and a member of the editorial board of Public Understanding of Science.

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