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November 07, 2006 |
| Executive Committee |
| Rich Appelbaum | 
| Richard P. Appelbaum is Professor of Sociology and Global & International Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is currently a Co-Principal Investigator and member of the Executive Committee of the Center for Nanotechnology and Society and serves as Director of the M.A. program and Ph.D. emphasis in Global & International Studies. He received his B.A. from Columbia University, M.P.A. from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His books include States and Economic Development in the Asian Pacific Rim (with Jeffrey Henderson; Sage, 1992); Behind the Label: Inequality in the Los Angeles Garment Industry (with Edna Bonacich; University of California Press, 2000); Rules and Networks: The Legal Culture of Global Business Transactions (co-edited with William L.F. Felstiner and Volkmar Gessner; Oxford, England: Hart, 2001), and Towards a Critical Globalization Studies (co-edited with William I. Robinson, Routledge, 2005). He is currently engaged in a multi-disciplinary study of supply chain networks in the Asian-Pacific Rim, as well as the development of nanotechnology in China. | |
| Bruce Bimber | 
| Bruce Bimber is Director Emeritus of the Center for Information Technology and Society and Professor in the departments of Political Science and Communication. His research examines the relationship between evolving information technology and patterns in human behavior, especially in the domains of political organization, collective action, social capital, and political deliberation. He has authored numerous works including Information and American Democracy: Technology in the Evolution of Political Power, Campaigning Online: The Internet in U.S. Elections, and The Politics of Expertise in Congress: The Rise and Fall of the Office of Technology Assessment. | |
| Craig Hawker | 
| Craig J. Hawker, Ph.D. is currently Director of the Materials Research Laboratory and a Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Materials at UCSB. From 1993-2004 he was a Research Staff Member and an investigator in the NSF Center for Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular Assemblies at the IBM Almaden Research Center. He received a B.Sc. (Hons) degree and University Medal in Chemistry from the University of Queensland in 1984 and a Ph.D. in bioorganic chemistry from the University of Cambridge in 1988 under the supervision of Prof. Sir Alan Battersby. Jumping into the world of polymer chemistry, he undertook a post-doctoral fellowship with Prof. Jean Fréchet at Cornell University from 1988 to 1990 and then returned to the University of Queensland as a Queen Elizabeth II Fellow from 1991 to 1993. He has been honored by numerous awards including the 2005 ACS Award in Applied Polymer Science from the American Chemical Society, the 2005 Dutch Polymer Award, the 2007 Hermann Mark Scholar Award and the 2008 DSM Performance Materials Award. In addition to a variety of named lectureships, Dr. Hawker is Editor of the Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Chemistry and an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at the University of Queensland. His research has focused on the interface between organic and polymer chemistry with emphasis on the design, synthesis, and application of well-defined macromolecular structures in biotechnology, microelectronics and surface science.
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| Barbara Herr Harthorn | 
| Barbara Herr Harthorn, Principal Investigator and Director of the CNS, is also Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, Anthropology, and Sociology at UCSB. In the CNS-UCSB she leads Interdisciplinary Research Group 3, which focuses on public, expert and media views on nanotechnologies' risks. She also serves on the Executive Committee of the new NSF/EPA UC Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (UC CEIN). In the UC CEIN she leads Interdisciplinary Research Group 7, which conducts research on nanomaterials and Environmental Risk Perception. Her research broadly examines culture and health, health inequality, and technological risk and perception; in particular she is studying the intersections of socially constructed risk with gender, ethnicity/race, and other categories of difference. Her current work in the CNS-UCSB examines nanotechnological risk perception among both experts and diverse US and comparative UK publics. Her work is published in a variety of social science, medical care, public health, environmental science and technology, technology and society, and nanoscience journals. She is editor (with Laury Oaks) of Risk, Culture, and Health Inequality: Shifting Perceptions of Danger and Blame (2003). She received a doctorate in medical anthropology and transcultural psychiatry from UCLA and a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Bryn Mawr College; she completed postdoctoral research in social psychology at UCSB. | |
| W. Patrick McCray | 
| W. Patrick McCray is a professor in the UCSB Department of History where he researches and teaches about post-1945 and contemporary science and technology. Before coming to UCSB, McCray worked at the Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics and George Washington University. He received his Ph.D. in 1996 and is the author of numerous publications and books on the history of science and technology including Giant Telescopes: Astronomical Ambition and the Promise of Technology (Harvard, 2004). | |
| Chris Newfield | 
| Christopher Newfield is professor of American culture at UCSB. His research focuses on the processes of creativity and innovation, with a double focus on cultural and technological factors. He publishes on a range of topics that include the effects of higher education on society, corporate culture, culture and economics, the role of identity in socio-economic development, civil rights history, and the future of the middle class, He has conducted extensive fieldwork in a range of technology-dependent industries and has wide experience with the university side of copyright, patenting, and technology transfer. In addition to his service at UCSB, he sits on the UC system wide committees for planning and budget, technology transfer, and the advisory board for UC's Industry-University Cooperative Research Program. He has recently published Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880-1980, and is working on its sequel, entitled The Innovation Crisis: Business and the American University, 1975-2005. He teaches courses on Culture and Technology, Global California, and Detective Fiction. | | | | | | | |
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