Susanna Hornig Priest is Professor ofCommunication at George Mason University. She has taught mass communication theory and research methods at the undergraduate and graduate level beginning in 1989. She holds a doctoral degree in communications from the University of Washington, a master s degree in sociology from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a bachelor s degree in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley. Her own research is centered on the role of science in American society and culture, its expression in the mass media, public engagement in science and science...