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After more than a decade, the UCSB Center for Nanotechnology in Society research has provided new and deep knowledge of how technological innovation and social change impact one another. Now, as the national center reaches the end of its term, its three primary research groups have published...
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CNS Director Barbara Herr Harthorn and IRG 2 leader Richard Appelbaum lent substantive insight to a recent CQ Researcher report on the economic impacts of nanotechnology. The report, titled "Nanotechnology: Will the Science of Atom-Size Objects Reshape the Economy?" was published on June...
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China is trying to pivot its economy from one that makes things to one that designs them. CNS researchers weighed in on those efforts at a conference hosted this past weekend by Duke Kunshan University (DKU). Called "China's Role in the Global Innovation System," the conference was...
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For her contributions to CNS-UCSB, undergraduate researcher Catherine Enders has been awarded the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. The winner of this prestigious award, open to students from every discipline on the UCSB campus, is chosen by the Academic Senate. A...
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A recently-published paper co-authored by former CNS Postdoctoral Scholar Mary Collins suggests that disparities between both polluters and those exposed to pollution are even greater than existing Environmental Justice research suggests. With the nation's attention focused on the environmental...
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CNS research group leader Patrick McCray was busy at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. A historian of technology, McCray sat on four panels and delivered a keynote address. In the video of one one of his presentations below, he suggests that popular narratives about...
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Members of the public find the risks of climate engineering technology more likely than any of the benefits, according to an article published in the January edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Authored by scholars from the NSF Center for Nanotechnology in Society at the...
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The following is reproduced from the S.NET conference website:
The 8th annual S.Net meeting will take place from the 12th to the 14th of October 2016 in Bergen, Norway. It will continue to provide room for reflections on emerging technologies, this time with a special (though not exclusive) focus...
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A recent Forbes article reports on a panel from the CNS-UCSB conference, “Democratizing Technologies: Assessing the Roles of NGOs in Shaping Technological Futures.” The panel, focusing on workers’ rights in the global economy, featured talks by CNS research group leader...
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Craig Hawker is a CNS co-PI and Executive Committee member. The following article about his election as a AAAS Fellow is reproduced from The UCSB Current. The original version can be read at: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2015/016175/craig-hawker-named-aaas-fellow.
Craig Hawker, a UC Santa Barbara...
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While attending a panel discussion at the Society and Technology Policy Institute (STPI) in Washington, D.C. this summer, undergraduate psychology major Catherine Enders noticed a STPI employee with a UCSB water bottle. Upon approaching this stranger, she learned that it was Emily Nightingale, a...
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Earlier today, while in Washington D.C., CNS-UCSB Director Barbara Herr Harthorn participated in a panel focusing on future directions of nanotechnology policy, especially regarding biomedical and infrastructural applications. This event was part of the American Chemical Society Science & the...
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Former CNS Graduate Fellow Rachel Parker has accepted a new position at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) as Director of Research Programs. In this role, Rachel will be participating as a member of the Institute's senior management team, developing and supporting new...
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CNS collaborator Nick Pidgeon and five of his colleagues in the UK have published a groundbreaking paper that delineates the shared values underpinning public acceptance of energy systems. Based on on six deliberative workshops and a national survey, this study is novel because it seeks to...
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IRG 2 collaborator and China innovation expert Denis Simon has accepted a senior administrative post at Duke Kunshan University in Kunshan, China. The following is reproduced from a Duke Kunshan University press release:
DURHAM, N.C., AND KUNSHAN, CHINA -- Denis Simon has been appointed executive...
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On November 13-15, 2014, CNS-UCSB brought together an international array of NGOs with environmental and social justice concerns, scholars, technologists, government officials, and journalists to discuss two key questions: How can NGOs produce more equitable and sustainable outcomes of emerging...
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Congratulations are in order for undergraduate researcher Catherine Enders who was accepted to participate in CNS ASU's Policy, Science, Technology & Society Scholars (POSTS) program.
Open to sophomore and junior undergraduate women, minorities, and persons with disabilities, this...
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CNS collaborator Nick Pidgeon, a social psychologist at Cardiff University, played a central role in a 5-institution effort to create the interactive exhibit, A Sense of Energy, which was held at the White Buidling, Hackney Wick, London from June 26-28, 2014, and at the Senedd Building (where the...
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CNS Graduate Fellow Matt Gebbie has been selected via a competitive application process to attend the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany, June 28 to July 3. He will be sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
The Lindau conference is an annual meeting of Nobel winners in...
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Foreign born graduate students in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) disciplines who wish to pursue a career in industry or NGOs are much more likely to stay in the U.S. than those who wish to pursue a career in academia or government concludes a study by researchers at UC Santa...
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What decisions did architects make when designing spaces for the new interdisciplinary sciences of materials and nanotechnology? A recently-published paper in the journal Minerva tells that story. Co-authors Hyungsub Choi, a CNS-UCSB affiliate and assistant professor at Seoul National University,...
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A newly launched study of nano futures at the Gothenburg Research Institute will include as an investigator former CNS-UCSB postdoctoral fellow Mikael Johannson. As explained on a brochure for the study, "The project aims to explore nanotechnology as an emergent policy-driven techno-scientific...
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The first in a series of policy briefs co-authored by CNS-affiliated researchers has been distributed to California legislators and specifically: the Governor's Office; the Senate committee on Business, Professions, and Economic Development; the Senate committee on Labor and Industrial...
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Social movement unionism (SMU) is not necessarily antithetical to traditional business unionism concludes Cassandra Engeman in a case study of the 2006 immigrants rights marches in Los Angeles. A former CNS Graduate Fellow and Senior Researcher, Engeman's findings were recently published in the...
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In a recent article in The New Yorker by John Colapinto, CNS collaborator and historian of technology Cyrus Mody offers insight into the challenges of commercializing new technologies.“It’s less about a disruptive technology and more about moments when the linkages among a set of...
China is trying to pivot its economy from one that makes things to one that designs them. CNS researchers weighed in on those efforts at a conference hosted this past weekend by Duke Kunshan University (DKU). Called "China's Role in the Global Innovation System," the conference was...
For her contributions to CNS-UCSB, undergraduate researcher Catherine Enders has been awarded the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. The winner of this prestigious award, open to students from every discipline on the UCSB campus, is chosen by the Academic Senate. A...
A recently-published paper co-authored by former CNS Postdoctoral Scholar Mary Collins suggests that disparities between both polluters and those exposed to pollution are even greater than existing Environmental Justice research suggests. With the nation's attention focused on the environmental...
Members of the public find the risks of climate engineering technology more likely than any of the benefits, according to an article published in the January edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Authored by scholars from the NSF Center for Nanotechnology in Society at the...
A recent Forbes article reports on a panel from the CNS-UCSB conference, “Democratizing Technologies: Assessing the Roles of NGOs in Shaping Technological Futures.” The panel, focusing on workers’ rights in the global economy, featured talks by CNS research group leader...
Craig Hawker is a CNS co-PI and Executive Committee member. The following article about his election as a AAAS Fellow is reproduced from The UCSB Current. The original version can be read at: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2015/016175/craig-hawker-named-aaas-fellow. Craig Hawker, a UC Santa Barbara...
While attending a panel discussion at the Society and Technology Policy Institute (STPI) in Washington, D.C. this summer, undergraduate psychology major Catherine Enders noticed a STPI employee with a UCSB water bottle. Upon approaching this stranger, she learned that it was Emily Nightingale, a...
Former CNS Graduate Fellow Rachel Parker has accepted a new position at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) as Director of Research Programs. In this role, Rachel will be participating as a member of the Institute's senior management team, developing and supporting new...
CNS collaborator Nick Pidgeon and five of his colleagues in the UK have published a groundbreaking paper that delineates the shared values underpinning public acceptance of energy systems. Based on on six deliberative workshops and a national survey, this study is novel because it seeks to...
IRG 2 collaborator and China innovation expert Denis Simon has accepted a senior administrative post at Duke Kunshan University in Kunshan, China. The following is reproduced from a Duke Kunshan University press release: DURHAM, N.C., AND KUNSHAN, CHINA -- Denis Simon has been appointed executive...
On November 13-15, 2014, CNS-UCSB brought together an international array of NGOs with environmental and social justice concerns, scholars, technologists, government officials, and journalists to discuss two key questions: How can NGOs produce more equitable and sustainable outcomes of emerging...
Congratulations are in order for undergraduate researcher Catherine Enders who was accepted to participate in CNS ASU's Policy, Science, Technology & Society Scholars (POSTS) program. Open to sophomore and junior undergraduate women, minorities, and persons with disabilities, this...
CNS Graduate Fellow Matt Gebbie has been selected via a competitive application process to attend the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany, June 28 to July 3. He will be sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The Lindau conference is an annual meeting of Nobel winners in...
Foreign born graduate students in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) disciplines who wish to pursue a career in industry or NGOs are much more likely to stay in the U.S. than those who wish to pursue a career in academia or government concludes a study by researchers at UC Santa...
What decisions did architects make when designing spaces for the new interdisciplinary sciences of materials and nanotechnology? A recently-published paper in the journal Minerva tells that story. Co-authors Hyungsub Choi, a CNS-UCSB affiliate and assistant professor at Seoul National University,...
A newly launched study of nano futures at the Gothenburg Research Institute will include as an investigator former CNS-UCSB postdoctoral fellow Mikael Johannson. As explained on a brochure for the study, "The project aims to explore nanotechnology as an emergent policy-driven techno-scientific...
The first in a series of policy briefs co-authored by CNS-affiliated researchers has been distributed to California legislators and specifically: the Governor's Office; the Senate committee on Business, Professions, and Economic Development; the Senate committee on Labor and Industrial...
Social movement unionism (SMU) is not necessarily antithetical to traditional business unionism concludes Cassandra Engeman in a case study of the 2006 immigrants rights marches in Los Angeles. A former CNS Graduate Fellow and Senior Researcher, Engeman's findings were recently published in the...
In a recent article in The New Yorker by John Colapinto, CNS collaborator and historian of technology Cyrus Mody offers insight into the challenges of commercializing new technologies.“It’s less about a disruptive technology and more about moments when the linkages among a set of...
