Shelly Rodgers is a professor of Strategic Communication, the Maxine Wilson Gregory Ctinguished Professor. She researches ways to improve the quality of health in individualshair in the Missouri School of Journalism, and a University of Missouri Curators’ Dis and communities. She teaches graduate STEM students how to create stories of complex scientific research for everyday readers. Her research has been showcased in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. She is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Advertising. Rodgers was also past president, in 2010, of the American Academy of Advertising.