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This photo gallery includes images from the conference, Democratizing Technologies: Assessing the Roles of NGOs in Shaping Technological Futures, that was hosted by CNS UCSB on campus from November 13-15. The conference included an international mix of scholars, NGO representatives, journalists,...
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In a recent post on the University of Nottingham's China Policy Institute Blog, CNS PI Richard Appelbaum draws from his research group's study of global innovation to apprize whether China's science and technology research culture is producing innovative discoveries. Below is the...
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The recent CNS-hosted conference, Democratizing Technologies: Assessing the Roles of NGOs in Technological Futures, included poster presentations and a competition in which conference participants voted on the best three. From amongst a host of cutting edge, interdisciplinary studies, the following...
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Democratizing Technologies, Assessing the Roles of NGOs in Shaping Technological Futures begins tomorrow evening. The conference asks how nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are harnessing new technologies to address challenges of energy, disaster relief, food shortage, clean water, environmental...
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The plaudits continue for IRG 1 Leader Patrick McCray's book, The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future. It has been selected as the winner of the Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize, named in honor of the longtime...
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Democratizing Technologies: Assessing the Roles of NGOs in Shaping Technological Futures, November 13-15, 2014 University of California, Santa Barbara
How can NGOs produce more equitable and sustainable outcomes of new technologies? What are the implications of NGO participation in governance for...
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Did you attend a talk at the April 18-19 Interrogating Methodologies symposium during which you wish you had taken better notes? Were you not able to attend at all? Just finding out about it now? Then you are in luck. Video of all the lectures from the day-and-a-half event are now available online...
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The Center for Nanotechnology in Society at UCSB, a National Science Foundation (NSF) national center that advances understanding of the relationships between technological innovation and societal change, announces the award of four new faculty seed grants under the second-year program Seed Grants...
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IRG3 collaborator Nick Pidgeon learned this week that he had been awarded an MBE, which stands for Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. It is one of five designations – the pinnacle being knighthood – in the order of chivalry established by King George V in 1917 and...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof will deliver the keynote address at the CNS Democratizing Technologies conference this fall. His talk, co-sponsored by UCSB Arts & Lectures, will be titled, "A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity." It...
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The following interview with CNS Director Barbara Herr Harthorn was excerpted from The Santa Barbara Independent website. It was conducted after Harthorn returned from her February testimony to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. To read the interview in its...
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Work by CNS-UCSB collaborators has garnered the distinction of being named one of the best 15 papers published in Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T) in 2013. The paper, titled "From Cradle-to-Grave at the Nanoscale: gaps in U.S. Regulatory Oversight along the Nanomaterial Life...
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Historian and CNS PI W. Patrick McCray, has been named the 2015-16 Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. It is their most prestigious fellowship and will support his project, "Building Collaborative Machines: Artists, Engineers, and...
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Scholars have frequently suggested that art and science find their meeting point in method, and that idea could be the tagline for the Interrogating Methodologies symposium taking place at UC Santa Barbara on April 18 and 19. The symposium explores boundaries in art and science and seeks to...
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Over 1,300 visitors learned about nanotechnology at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History this weekend as part of the annual NanoDays informal education event. Volunteers from Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS) along with those from the California NanoSystems Institute and the UCSB...
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"We are dulled, lulled, and anesthetized by arguments from tech intellectuals that too often are glib, Panglossian, or in service of a corporate agenda," W. Patrick McCray writes in an opinion piece published in The Chronicle of Higher Education on March 10. A historian and CNS principal...
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Key sources in a naturejobs.com feature article, Cong Cao and Denis Simon, members of CNS's Globalization research group, offered their expertise on the science research climate in China. The story is about China's efforts to lure back researchers who left the country to earn degrees and...
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"Artists are not included in our debate on how we build the economy for the future. They're excluded in our nation's emphasis on innovation which has been left to the STEM crowd. We're not thinking about designing for emergence. Innovation is about seeing the world differently. Who...
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CNS Director Barbara Herr Harthorn testified to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday February 12. At the request of the Commission's Executive Director, Lisa M. Lee, Herr Harthorn addressed, "how the National Nanotechnology...
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CNS collaborator and Arizona State vice provost for International Strategic Initiatives Denis Simon was tabbed to assist in the first midterm review of China's 15 Year Medium-to-Long-Term Science and Technology Plan (MLP). One of only 12 foreign experts asked to participate in the review, Simon...
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Work completed by Postdoctoral scholar Luciano Kay with colleagues from Georgia Tech is currently featured on the National Science Foundation homepage.
What’s likely to be the “next big thing?” What might be the most fertile areas for innovation? Where should countries and...
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The Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS) at UCSB announces a second round of its intramural seed grant program for UCSB faculty: CNS Seed Grants on Societal Issues for New Technologies. For more information, including application instructions, you may open the attached document in either .doc...
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Sizing up the competition has gone high-tech. With new patent-mapping technology that compares industries, countries or entire technological fields, decision-makers have a new tool at their fingertips as they develop policies on economic or scientific technology, innovation or investment.
“We...
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Just weeks after being named a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the leader of the CNS's Interdisciplinary Group 1, W. Patrick McCray, won the 2012 Eugene E. Emme Award for Astronautical Literature for his book, The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies,...
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When it comes to safeguarding the environment, human health, and community livelihoods from the impacts of emerging technologies, where does the role of the government end and that of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) begin? This question will be the focus of a multidisciplinary, global...
This photo gallery includes images from the conference, Democratizing Technologies: Assessing the Roles of NGOs in Shaping Technological Futures, that was hosted by CNS UCSB on campus from November 13-15. The conference included an international mix of scholars, NGO representatives, journalists,...
In a recent post on the University of Nottingham's China Policy Institute Blog, CNS PI Richard Appelbaum draws from his research group's study of global innovation to apprize whether China's science and technology research culture is producing innovative discoveries. Below is the...
Democratizing Technologies, Assessing the Roles of NGOs in Shaping Technological Futures begins tomorrow evening. The conference asks how nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are harnessing new technologies to address challenges of energy, disaster relief, food shortage, clean water, environmental...
The plaudits continue for IRG 1 Leader Patrick McCray's book, The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future. It has been selected as the winner of the Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize, named in honor of the longtime...
IRG3 collaborator Nick Pidgeon learned this week that he had been awarded an MBE, which stands for Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. It is one of five designations – the pinnacle being knighthood – in the order of chivalry established by King George V in 1917 and...
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof will deliver the keynote address at the CNS Democratizing Technologies conference this fall. His talk, co-sponsored by UCSB Arts & Lectures, will be titled, "A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity." It...
The following interview with CNS Director Barbara Herr Harthorn was excerpted from The Santa Barbara Independent website. It was conducted after Harthorn returned from her February testimony to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. To read the interview in its...
Work by CNS-UCSB collaborators has garnered the distinction of being named one of the best 15 papers published in Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T) in 2013. The paper, titled "From Cradle-to-Grave at the Nanoscale: gaps in U.S. Regulatory Oversight along the Nanomaterial Life...
Historian and CNS PI W. Patrick McCray, has been named the 2015-16 Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. It is their most prestigious fellowship and will support his project, "Building Collaborative Machines: Artists, Engineers, and...
Scholars have frequently suggested that art and science find their meeting point in method, and that idea could be the tagline for the Interrogating Methodologies symposium taking place at UC Santa Barbara on April 18 and 19. The symposium explores boundaries in art and science and seeks to...
Over 1,300 visitors learned about nanotechnology at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History this weekend as part of the annual NanoDays informal education event. Volunteers from Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS) along with those from the California NanoSystems Institute and the UCSB...
"We are dulled, lulled, and anesthetized by arguments from tech intellectuals that too often are glib, Panglossian, or in service of a corporate agenda," W. Patrick McCray writes in an opinion piece published in The Chronicle of Higher Education on March 10. A historian and CNS principal...
CNS collaborator and Arizona State vice provost for International Strategic Initiatives Denis Simon was tabbed to assist in the first midterm review of China's 15 Year Medium-to-Long-Term Science and Technology Plan (MLP). One of only 12 foreign experts asked to participate in the review, Simon...
Work completed by Postdoctoral scholar Luciano Kay with colleagues from Georgia Tech is currently featured on the National Science Foundation homepage. What’s likely to be the “next big thing?” What might be the most fertile areas for innovation? Where should countries and...
Sizing up the competition has gone high-tech. With new patent-mapping technology that compares industries, countries or entire technological fields, decision-makers have a new tool at their fingertips as they develop policies on economic or scientific technology, innovation or investment. “We...
