Jon D.Miller
Title: Professor
Research area: Public understanding of science and technology.
Degree: Ph.D., Northwestern University
Voice: 312-503-1431
Fax: 312-503-2521
e-mail: j-miller8@northwestern.edu
Link to webpage: www.biocomm.northwestern.edu

Detailed research description: Jon D. Miller serves as the Director of the Center for Biomedical Communications. Jon is a Professor in the Medical School and in the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Trained as a political scientist, Jon 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, published biennially as Science and Engineering Indicators. His work in the measurement of scientific literacy and attitudes has been replicated in more than 20 countries.

Professor Miller also serves as Director of the Longitudinal Study of American Youth (LSAY) and as Director of the International Center for the Advancement of Scientific Literacy, both located at Northwestern University. He is a member of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center and a Senior Faculty Fellow in the Institute for Health Services Research and Policy Studies, both at Northwestern University. Prior to joining the Northwestern faculty, Jon served as Vice President of the Chicago Academy of Sciences for nine years.

Professor Miller has published five books and more than 40 articles and chapters in the area of the public understanding of science and technology and in the development of science and mathematics skills during secondary schooling and college. He is a member of the Committee on the Public Understanding of Science and Technology of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the editorial board of Public Understanding of Science. He is the principal investigator of two NSF grants for $1.1 million.

Representative publications:

Books
Public Perceptions of Science and Technology: A Comparative Study of the European Union, the United States, Japan, and Canada. Madrid: BBV Foundation, 1997. (with Raphael Pardo and Fujio Niwa)

Biomedical Communications. New York: Academic Press, 2001. (with Linda Kimmel)

Edited Collections
Perceptions of Biotechnology: Public Understanding and Attitudes. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2001.

Technical Reports
The Public Understanding of Biomedical Science in the United States, 1993. A Report to the National Institutes of Health, 1995.

The Public Understanding of Science and Technology in the United States, 1995. A Report to the National Science Foundation. Washing-ton, D.C. Chicago: Chicago Academy of Sciences, 1995.

Public Attitudes Toward and Understanding of Science and Technology in Canada, the European Union, Japan, and the United States. A Report to the European Union. Madrid: BBV Foundation, 1995. (with Rafael Pardo and Fujio Niwa)

The Causes and Treatment of Selected Diseases: A Social Science Analysis of Public Understanding and Attitudes. A Report to the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health. Chicago: National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago, 1999. (with Linda Kimmel and Tom Smith).

Chapters in Edited Works
Scientific Literacy for Effective Citizenship, in Yager, R. E. (Ed.), Science/Technology/Society as Reform in Science Education. New York: State University of New York Press, 1995. Pp. 185-204.

Civic Scientific Literacy in the United States: A Developmental Analysis from Middle-school through Adulthood, in Gräber, Wolfgang and Claus Bolte (Eds.), Scientific Literacy. Kiel: Germany: Institute for Science Education, University of Kiel, 1997. Pp. 121-142.

La Nécessité d'une Éducation Scientifique Citoyenne? in Schiele, Bernard and Emyln H. Koster (Eds.), La Révolution de la Muséologie des Sciences. Lyon, France: Presses Universitaires de Lyon. 1999. Pp. 293-328. [in French]

Civic Scientific Literacy and Attitude to Science and Technology: A Comparative Analysis of the European Union, the United States, Japan, and Canada, in Dierkes, Meinolf and Claudia von Grote (Eds.), Between Understanding and Trust: The Public, Science, and Technology. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1999. Pp. 81-129. (with Rafael Pardo)

The Development of Student Achievement in Mathematics during Middle School and High School, in Usiskin, Zalman (Ed.), Developments in School Mathematics Education around the World. Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1999. Pp. 240-261.

The Development of Civic Scientific Literacy in the United States, in Kumar, David D. and Daryl Chubin (Eds.), Science, Technology, and Society: A Sourcebook on Research and Practice. New York: Plenum Press, 2000. Pp. 21-47.

Refereed Articles
Theory and Measurement in the Public Understanding of Science: A rejoinder to Bauer and Schoon. Public Understanding of Science, 2:235-243. July, 1993.

The Measurement of Civic Scientific Literacy. Public Understanding of Science, 7:1-21. 1998.