CNS PI Barbara Herr Harthorn addressed issues of risk, exposure, and control as part of a closing-day panel at the fifth International Symposium on Nanotechnology, Occupational and Environmental Health in New Haven, CT.  Dr. Harthorn's comments and those of fellow panelists Andrew Maynard, Paul Schulte, and Hilary Godwin are cited in an article that appeared in the August 25, 2011 New Haven Independent:

Circles, or Slow Progress?

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.