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The Center for Nanotechnology in Society at UCSB has completed the formation of its inaugural National Advisory Board. This distinguished group of scholars, researchers, and policymakers from a wide range of science, engineering, social science, and cultural disciplines will advise the CNS-UCSB on its research, education, and outreach activities.
“Our Center is involved in both basic social science research and public education,” notes co-director Barbara Herr Harthorn. “We have formed an advisory board with depth as well as a diversity of backgrounds, expertise, and institutional experience. This Board will be able to offer new perspectives and solid leadership as the new field of nanotechnology studies unfolds.”
The Advisory Board’s membership is as follows:
- Ann Bostrom; Associate Dean and Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech; former program director for the Decision Risk and Management Science Program of the National Science Foundation
- John Seely Brown; visiting professor at University of Southern California and former Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
- Craig Calhoun; President of the Social Science Research Council and University Professor of the Social Sciences at New York University
- Vicki Colvin; Professor of Chemistry and Executive Director of the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology at Rice University
- Ruth Schwartz Cowan; Janice and Julian Bers Professor in the History and Sociology of Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania
- Susan Hackwood; Executive Director of the California Council on Science and Technologyand Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Riverside
- Alan Heeger; Professor of Physics and 2000 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, UCSB
- Thomas Kalil; Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Science and Technology, UC Berkeley, and former Deputy Assistant to the White House for Technology and Economic Policy
- Herbert Kroemer; Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and 2000 Nobel Laureate in Physics, UCSB
- Martin Moskovits; Bruce and Susan Worster Dean of Mathematical, Life, and Physical Sciences and Professor of Physical Chemistry, UCSB
- Julia Moore; Deputy Director of the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and former Senior Advisor in the Office of International Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation
- Willie Pearson, Jr.; Chair of the School of History, Technology and Society at Georgia Institute of Technology
- Robert Westervelt; MallinckrodtProfessor of Applied Physics, Professor of Physics, and Director of the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC) on Science of Nanoscale Systems and their Device Applications at Harvard University
The CNS’s Advisory Board plans to hold its first meeting in 2006, its first year of operation. Co-director Patrick McCray notes, “The Board comes from all over the country, and we were planning to convene them in person about once a year in order to strategize on research directions and industry collaborations. But with a group this interesting, and with a field moving as quickly as ours, we may try to attract them to Santa Barbara quite a bit more often.”
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