David H. Guston will be joining the faculty of Arizona State University as
Professor of Political Science in January 2005. He will also be affiliated
with ASU's Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes. His current research
includes a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation on the public
value of social policy research (with Jocelyn Crowley of Rutgers, co-PI).
His book, Between Politics and Science: Assuring the Integrity and Productivity
of Research (Cambridge U. Press, 2000), was awarded the 2002 Don K. Price Prize
by the American Political Science Association for best book in science and
technology policy. He has also co-authored Informed Legislatures: Coping
with Science in a Democracy (with Megan Jones and Lewis M. Branscomb, University
Press of America, 1996) and co-edited The Fragile Contract: University Science
and the Federal Government (with Ken Keniston, MIT Press, 1994). He has published
numerous articles and book chapters and made more than seventy research
presentations on research and development policy, scientific integrity and
responsibility, public participation in technical decision making, peer review,
and the politics of science policy. He is the North American editor of the
peer-reviewed journal Science and Public Policy, and he serves on the editorial
boards of SciPolicy: The Journal of Science and Health Policy and VEST:
Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies. Professor Guston has served on
the National Science Foundation's review panel on Societal Dimensions of Engineering,
Science, and Technology (2000-2002) and on the National Academy of Engineering's
Steering Committee on Engineering Ethics and Society (2002). In 2002, he was
elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),
and he is now the chair-elect of the AAAS Section on Societal Impacts of Science
and Engineering. He holds a B.A. from Yale and a Ph.D. from MIT, and he performed
post-doctoral training at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.