Michael F. Dahlstrom

  • LAS Dean's Professor [GSJC]
  • Director

Contact

mfd@iastate.edu

515-294-3822

101a Hamilton
613 Wallace Rd.
Ames IA
50011-4010

Bio

Michael Dahlstrom is the director of the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University and holds a Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Professorship. His research explores how storytelling impacts the communication of science and the ethical considerations involved. Dahlstrom’s work extends across diverse scientific contexts, including risk, health, agricultural and environmental communication and has been published in leading journals, such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLOS Biology, Communication Research and Science Communication. He is also co-editor of Ethics and Practice in Science Communication, an edited volume focusing on the often-overlooked ethical challenges underlying science communication. Dahlstrom is a Kavli Fellow and is also a past head of the Communicating Science, Health, Environment and Risk Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Topics of interest

agricultural communication, environmental communicationscience communication

Education

PhD in Mass Communications, joint degree with Environmental Resources, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2008

MS in Biophysics, Iowa State University, 2004

BA in Journalism and Mass Communication, Iowa State University, 2002

BS in Biophysics, Iowa State University, 2002