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Three stakeholder groups agree that regulators are not adequately prepared to manage the risks posed by nanotechnology, according to a paper that will appear in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS One. In a survey of nano-scientists and engineers, nano-environmental health and safety scientists, and...
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The Latin American Nanotechnology & Society Network (ReLANS), in association with the MacArthur Foundation Chair in Global and International Studies and Sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) and the Center for Nanotechnology and Society at UCSB (CNS-UCSB), hosted the...
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CNS collaborators Milind Kandlikar, Terre Satterfield and Christian Beaudrie provide a summary report for a Nanotechnology Risks Expert Workshop. The two-day workshop was held at the University of British Columbia on May 24th and 25th 2012 with the goal of creating a framework for screening...
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CNS-UCSB director Barbara Herr Harthorn will deliver a keynote speech at the 2013 National Nanotechnology Initiative’s (NNI) Stakeholder Perspectives on the Perception, Assessment, and Management of the Potential Risks of Nanotechnology workshop. The purpose of this two day workshop is...
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Karen Parkhill, Christina Demski, Catherine Butler, Alexa Spence, and Nick Pidegon provide an in-depth report on public values and attitudes towards different approaches to transforming the energy system in the UK. The issues surrounding energy security, energy affordability, and...
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Payroll Title: Academic Coordinator I
Working Title: Education Coordinator, CNS-UCSB
Job #JPF00185: https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/apply
The Center for Nanotechnology in Society at the University of California Santa Barbara (CNS-UCSB) invites applications for a 50-75% FTE Academic...
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Simon is among the six U.S. and six Chinese experts who work together as a cooperative team to analyze policy issues to support the implementation of the government-to-government dialogue. The annual US-China Dialogue is one of the most important components of the ongoing bilateral Strategic...
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CNS-UCSB announces Graduate Fellowships opportunities for Social Sciences and Humanities students and Graduate Fellowships for Science and Engineering Students.
The Graduate Fellowship program for Social Sciences and Humanities runs for a 12-month period beginning September 22, 2013 and...
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The John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values, along with the Graduate Program in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame and the Advisory Committee of the James T. Cushing Memorial Prize in History and Philosophy of Physics are pleased to announce the...
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Inducement prizes – in which cash rewards are offered to motivate the attainment of specific targets – have long been used to stimulate scientific discovery and technology research and development. This volume presents an empirical investigation of the effect of these prizes on...
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http://www.npr.org/2013/01/01/168208273/the-year-of-the-higgs-and-other-tiny-advances-in-science
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In Alaska, Seeing the Future of U.S. Coasts
Christine Shearer, a postdoctoral scholar in science, technology and society studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is the author of "Kivalina: A Climate Change Story."
Updated November 26, 2012, 5:30 PM
Above the Arctic Circle...
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A new book just out from University of Wisconsin environmental social psychologist Thomas A Heberlein entitled Navigating Environmental Attitudes draws its inspiration from the intellectual heritage of UCSB Environmental Studies colleague Bill Freudenburg, who passed away in Dec 2010. According to...
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August 30, 2012--Barbara Herr Harthorn, CNS-UCSB Director and IRG3 leader, discusses her research group's findings about non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and public awareness of nanotechnology in the journal, Nature. In a report called Armed Resistance, Nature's International...
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June 2012--A team of CNS-UCSB IRG 2 researchers has published an exploratory study of “Mexico-U.S. Scientific Collaboration in Nanotechnology” in the Mexican journal Frontera Norte. The study, by Guillermo Floradori, Edgar Zayago, IRG 2 leader Richard Appelbaum, and Rachel Parker...
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Two posters created by UC CEIN Graduate Student Fellow and CNS-UCSB IRG3 researcher Mary Collins received $1000 awards from chapters of the Society for Risk Analysis in Southern California and Europe.
"A Nanotechnology Risk Judgment Analysis: Consumer Product Safety and Environmental...
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June 11, 2012--IRG 1 Leader Patrick McCray looks at the inspirations shaping Elon Musk's work as one of the leading technological innovators of our time in an essay on the CNN Opinion website. A pioneer in space and on Earth discusses Musk's roles in founding PayPal, Tesla...
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The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has released a new report on "General Safe Practices for Working with Engineered Nanomaterials in Research Laboratories".
The report provides recommendations for engineering controls and safe practices...
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The spring 2012 issue of the ISBER newsletter dedicates a section on the third annual conference of the Society for the Study of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies (S.NET) that took place on November 7-10, 2011 in Tempe, Arizona. The conference, hosted on site by CNS-ASU and virtually by CNS-...
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CNS Executive Committee member, Craig Hawker, Director of the UCSB Materials Research Laboratory, was awarded the 2012 Centenary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry for his development of new strategies in the design of novel polymers and his outstanding communication skills as a...
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The "Journal of Nanoparticle Research" has published a study by IRG3 researchers reporting findings from an international survey of nano industry safety practices. Nanomaterials companies in 14 countries responded to the survey. The study found that a majority of companies cited...
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"Overpotential: Fuel Cells, Futurism, and the Making of a Power Panacea" by Matthew Eisler, IRG1 researcher and former CNS postdoctoral scholar, explores the gap between theory and practice of fuel cell power and the broader issues of history in science and technology after World War II....
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"Kivalina: A Climate Change Story" is a new book by Christine Shearer, CNS Postdoctoral Scholar and IRG 3 researcher, illustrates the destructive impacts of climate change and the politics of denial and evasion in this story of a threatened native Alaskan village.
The book, published...
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CNS is currently recruiting for the positions of Director of Education Programs and Communication and for Postdoctoral Research Scholars.
Position descriptions, requirements, and application procedures can be found in the attached flyers. Postdoctoral Scholar candidates should go to the...
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IRG 2 research collaborator Cong Cao of the University of Nottingham, UK is cited several times in the December 9, 2011 issue of Science, the journal of the AAAS. The article, "Focus on China: BIG Science in a BIG Country," in the Science Careers section, quotes Cao and other...