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November 07, 2006 |
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Executive Committee
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| Rich Appelbaum |
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Richard P. Appelbaum is Professor of Sociology and Global and 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.
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| Bruce Bimber |
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Bruce Bimber is Director Emeritus of the Center for Information Technology and Society and Professor in the departments of Political Science and Communication at UC Santa Barbara Barbara. 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. |
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| Fiona Goodchild |
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Fiona Goodchild is Education Director at the California NanoSystems Insititute (CNSI) at UCSB, where she collaborates with research scientists to integrate research and education activities. She builds on her teaching and research experience in Cognitive Psychology to design and evaluate several innovative projects funded by the National Science Foundation such as Research Experience for Teachers (RET), Graduate Fellows in K-12 schools (GK-12) and the Science Talent Expansion Program (STEP). In 1999 she won a Pre-College Winning Program Award from the Industrial Research Institute, Inc for her role in developing K-12 science education at the Materials Research Laboratory and in 2002 she received a Presidential Award for Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM). Dr Goodchild recently served on the NSF Advisory Board for the Math and Physical Sciences Directorate and is currently a member of the Education Committee for Sigma Xi. |
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| Barbara Herr Harthorn |
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Barbara Herr Harthorn, Principal Investigator and Director of the
Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center: Center for Nanotechnology in
Society (CNS) at University of California at Santa Barbara, is also
Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Anthropology, and Co-Director of the Center
for Global Studies in the Institute for Social,Behavioral and Economic
Research. Her research examines the social production of health
inequality, and in particular looks at the intersections of gender,
ethnicity/race, and transnational migration in health and health risk
perception. Her current work examines technological risk perception
among diverse US and comparative UK populations. She was a member of
the Executive Committee of the National Science Foundation Center for
Spatially Integrated Social Science and leads an international network
on health risk perception and spatial analysis. She has conducted
research in East Africa, Polynesia, Melanesia, and urban and rural
California. She is author (with Laury Oaks) of Risk, Culture, and
Health Inequality: Shifting Perceptions of Danger and Blame (2003) and
has published in many social science and public health journals. She
has a doctorate in medical anthropology and transcultural psychiatry
from UCLA and a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Bryn Mawr
College; she also completed postdoctoral research in social psychology
at UCSB.
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| Evelyn Hu |
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Professor Hu received her B.A. in Physics (summa cum laude) from Barnard College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Physics from Columbia University. From 1975-81, Dr. Hu was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories at Holmdel, NJ. From 1981 to 1984 she served as a Supervisor for VLSI Patterning Processes at Bell Laboratories at Murray Hill, NJ. In 1984 she jointed UCSB as a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). She currently holds joint appointments in ECE and Materials, and is the Scientific Co-Director of the newly-formed California NanoSystems Institute, a UCLA-UCSB collaborative California Institute for Science and Innovation. Her research focuses on high-resolution fabrication of compound semiconductor electronic and optoelectronic devices, candidate structures for the realization of quantum computation schemes, and on novel device structures formed through the heterogeneous integration of materials. Recently her work has involved the interaction of quantum dots in high Q microdisk and photonic crystal cavities. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the Academica Sinica of Taiwan, a recipient of an NSF Distinguished Teaching Fellow award, a AAAS Lifetime Mentor Award, a Fellow of the IEEE, APS, and the AAAS, and holds an honorary Doctorate of Engineering from the University of Glasgow. |
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| W. Patrick McCray |
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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). |
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| Chris Newfield |
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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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