Center for Nanotechnology in Society at University of California, Santa BarbaraCenter for Nanotechnology in Society at University of California, Santa Barbara(NSEC # (NSEC # SES 0531184SES 0531184))

PIs: Barbara Herr Harthorn, UCSB; Richard P. Appelbaum, UCSB; Bruce Bimber, UCSB; PIs: Barbara Herr Harthorn, UCSB; Richard P. Appelbaum, UCSB; Bruce Bimber, UCSB;

W. Patrick McCray, UCSB; Christopher Newfield, UCSBW. Patrick McCray, UCSB; Christopher Newfield, UCSB

CNS Mission

Examine the emergence and societal implications of nanotechnologies with a focus on the global human condition in a time of sustained technological innovation. Promote the socially and environmentally sustainable development of nanotechnologies in the US and around the globe.

Research Objectives

•Develop a portfolio of integrated multi-method research on nanoscience/nanotechnologies in dynamic interaction with society, from invention to global distribution, and lab to consumer to environment;

•provide interdisciplinary training for a new generation of societally-attuned scientists and science-aware social scientists;

•identify and dialogue with a wide array of public, media, government, NGO, and private sector constituents;

•serve as a network hub in the emerging national and international network of scholars and activists concerned with nanotechnology in society.

Education and Public Engagement programs at CNS-UCSBaim to nurture an interdisciplinary community of nano scientists & engineers (NSE), social scientists, and educators, and to achieve broader impacts through engagement of diverse audiences in dialogue about nanotechnology and society.

WG 1 - Historical Context of Nanotechnologies studies the historical underpinnings of nano policy, the nano enterprise, and their social context.

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NSE & Public Engagement

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InnovationTech Transfer

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WG 3

Risk Perception

PublicSphere

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WG 3 – Nano Risk Perception and the Public Sphere seeks to understand amplification and attenuation of nanotech risk perception in US and comparative other societies and how elite organizations are forming, interacting, and framing discourse about nano and society; and to develop methods for engaging diverse US publics in upstream deliberation about nanotechnologies’ near and long-term futures.

Risk perception team (Harthorn)• Multiple party risk perception• Upstream deliberation, US & UK• Experts: NSE, Nanotox, Industry, Regulators

Public sphere team (Bimber) • Media coverage of societal issues

-Automated content analysis• Nano framing in elite print media• Nano framing by policy makers

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WG 2 – Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Globalization develops a comprehensive understanding of processes of innovation, commercialization, and global development and diffusion of nanotechnology with an emphasis on E and S Asia.

Quantum Dot Mapping:

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Formal Education •Interdisciplinary Research & Training Opportunities for Undergraduate and Graduate Students

•Social Science Graduate Research Fellowships•Science & Engineering Graduate Research Fellowships•Undergraduate Research Internships (in partnership with INSET)

•Postdoctoral Training•Development of Course Curricula

Historical Context (McCray)• Nanoelectronics• Nanoscale Research and Interdisciplinarity• Nanotechnology, Futurism, and the Public

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Innovation team (Newfield)• Interactions of nano-scale research with

technology transfer at the university-industry interface.

• Survey research on nano-scale laboratories, examining cross-institutional innovation practices

Globalization team (Appelbaum)• Global emergence and diffusion of nanotechnologies• The development of nanotechnology in China and

Taiwan • Use of nano for environmental remediation in South

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COMING SOON:

Fall 2009 Conference

Washington, DC

“Emerging Technologies/Emerging Economies:

Nanotechnology for Equitable Development”

Co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL COLLABORATIONS

United States•UC Berkeley•Duke University•Rice University •Univ of Washington•SUNY Levin Institute•SUNY New Paltz•Chemical Heritage Foundation •American Bar Foundation

International• Australian National University • Univ. of British Columbia, CA• Univ of East Anglia, UK • Univ. of Edinburgh, UK • University of Wales-Cardiff, UK• Venice International Univ, Italy • various Chinese institutions

http://cns.ucsb.eduhttp://cns.ucsb.edu

CNS TOOLS FOR OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT

Speakers series NanoCaféNano-Meeter Weekly Fellows Meetings (bringing scientists into dialog with Newsletters the community)Conferences and Workshops Visualization toolsBlog Podcasts Web Clearinghouse Distribution DatabaseWeekly Clips Media outreachWebpage