Accidents have troubled Western thought and discourse since Aristotle. In the modern technological era, the ancient problem of the accident has assumed a peculiar and terrible aspect, its brutal reality reflected in every industrial mishap, its...

Atoms and molecules and nanoscale forces, oh my! NanoDays returns to the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History in April...

The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought and -- finally -- the disaster now known as the...

The Internet has become an increasingly important source of science information for laypersons. Users have access to a virtually unlimited array of documents by diverse sources, which...

Manufactured nanomaterials (MNMs) are increasingly produced and used in consumer goods.  Model simulations by others indicate...

If writer Ivan Amato creates an archive of contemporary scientific innovation, historian Patrick McCray studies that archive. In fact,...

The public’s comprehension of happenings in the knowledge-production fields is often mediated by the popular press. Therefore, it is useful for scholars to better understand the process by which their work is communicated to a general...

Casey Walsh will give a talk entitled: "Filtering Out the Social: Nanotechnology and Water Treatment in Mexico."

In this talk I discuss the role of nanotechnology in infrastructures  that manage water quality in Mexico....

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...

The CNS INSET Summer 2013 Interns will present posters showing the results of their research projects along with other students as part of the UCSB Undergraduate Summer Research Colloquium.

Members of the CNS community are invited to join us as our three INSET summer interns present their work.  The INSET summer internship program culminates with formal presentations and a poster session of each intern’s summer research....

Monday June 24 (Upham)

8:30- 9:15: Workshop Introduction; workshop format; statement of goals and the “problematic”

9:15-10:00: Richard John (...

This seminar will feature presentations by three 2013 CNS seed grant awardees discussing their research projects. 

Sarah Anderson, Assistant Professor – Bren School of Environmental Science and Management...

Dr. Harro van Lente will be giving a talk titled "Novelty, needs and rights: anticipating needs in society"

Typically,...

China is aiming to overtake the United States and become a global leader in science and technology, which it sees as the key to its rising economic and political effort, from basic research to commercialization.  In July 2012, China's...

Mary Collins will be presenting on her dissertation research, titled “Disproportionality, Inequality, and Vulnerability in Socio-Ecological Systems” in...

Presentations from IRG3 researchers Mary Collins, Shannon Hanna and Lauren Copeland on nanotechnology, risk and consumer products.

*Note: an hour later than usual time.

The fourth annual meeting of The Society for the...

This seminar will feature practice talks for the upcoming European conferences. Our speakers include:

Matt Gebbie, Shirley Han, and Galen Stocking: "Can China Become a...

The CNS INSET Summer 2012 Interns will present posters showing the results of their research projects along with other students as part of the UCSB Undergraduate Summer Research Colloquium....

Students in UCSB's Summer 2012 INSET program (Internships in Nanosystems Science, Engineering, and Technology) will give...

Swerve is a film created by the Collaborative Media Commons (CMC) and directed by Zach Horton. The Film is set in a nano-contaminated...

Helen Nissenbaum is Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, and Computer Science at New York University, where she is also Senior Faculty Fellow of the...

A hyper–keyword in contemporary American culture, risk pervades the discourse of entrepreneurial culture and finance capitalism on the one...

A Panel Presentation by:

Barbara Harthorn, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies,
Alan Liu, Professor of English,...

The PRC government’s ambitious program to catapult China into the ranks of the world’s leading innovation driven nations has led to the development of policies that conflict with...

Science reporter and author Chris Mooney discusses the psychological factors contributing to today's polarized political environment. Many...

Karl Bryant will lead an interactive demonstration and workshop on how to use NVivo, a powerful qualitative data management program. We will cover a range of...

This presentation analyzed the politics of the National Nanotechnology Initiative’s (NNI) Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) strategy and outcomes of its implementation. Primary sources from the National Institutes of Health’s...

The late '60s and early '70s are remembered on many American campuses as times of strife and protest. It is well known to historians (...

CNS INSET summer interns Sergio Cardenas, Alex Lyte, and William Reynolds will give their oral research presentations, plus a discussion of public speaking/presentation tips led by Cathy Boggs.

Abstract: This presentation is based on a series of interviews with 20 Canadian nanotechnology researchers, focusing primarily on the economic, political and epistemological issues relating to the delineation of the...

Aashish Mehta, Assistant Prof. in Global and International Studies at UCSB, will give a presentation as part of the CNS Competitiveness and Cooperation seminar series.  Talk title and more info forthcoming.

Abstract:  The NSF-funded Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing...

Rich Appelbaum's research group will introduce the Winter 2011 Competitiveness and Cooperation theme.

Abstract: How will manufacturing, recycling and disposal of nanotechnologies potentially impact the environment, the health of workers and communities' health? The CNS Speaker...

CNS will host two scholars from Mexico, who will address nanotechnology & society issues in Mexico.  Their visit is part of Workshop One coordinated under a UC...

Dr. R. Kalpana Sastry is presently Head of Division of Agricultural Research Systems...

Size Matters! Discover a world smaller than a hair on an ant. Things this small behave differently that you might expect. Join us for NanoDay™ and explore the science of small things. Zoom into the human hand or a leaf, and...

This talk will introduce the theory of cultural cognition, which presents a concise account of how public opinion forms and changes over time in response to political cultural signals from elites. The presentation will review recent evidence on...

The purpose of the meeting is to move forward theoretical and empirical knowledge about nanotech risk perception and communication. Early empirical work on public understandings of nanotechnology has largely progressed without extensive...

Science fiction films and novels often present us with remarkably imaginative visions of the future.  In this talk I argue that all the most popular and influential versions of such...

Take a glimpse into the future - how will we meet our energy needs in the next 20 years?

• Can nanotechnologies change the ways we generate energy?
• Can...

Can scientists develop clean technologies using nanotechnology?

What types of production can be replaced with more environmentally-friendly manufacturing using nanotechnologies...

This conference brought together union leaders, human resource managers, social scientists, media, public policy officials, and science experts to examine issues relating to potential risks involved for nanotechnology workers - both in...