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, when an innovation is successful, the argument is that there must have been a need for this, albeit '...

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 anticipation of a job talk she will give to the National Socio-Environmental...

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 Study of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies (S.NET) will be held at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, on October 22-25, 2012. The four-day conference will...

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 Nano Innovator: An Investigation into the Chinese Nanotechnology...

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 their final oral presentations on August 1-2 from 10:00-2:00 at Elings Hall 1601.

CNS...

Swerve is a film created by the Collaborative Media Commons (CMC) and directed by Zach Horton. The Film is set in a nano-contaminated cyberpunk dystopia where technology and the human mind have become entangled, and follows various...

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 Information Law Institute. Her areas of expertise span social,...

A hyper–keyword in contemporary American culture, risk pervades the discourse of entrepreneurial culture and finance capitalism on the one hand (risk–taking to reap off–scale financial reward is applauded) as well as the...

A Panel Presentation by:

Barbara Harthorn, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies,
Alan Liu, Professor of English, and
Mike Goodchild, Professor of Geography...

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 China’s obligations under the WTO. To address...

Science reporter and author Chris Mooney discusses the psychological factors contributing to today's polarized political environment. Many experts today say that liberals and conservatives live in separate and often incompatible realities....

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 NVivo basics, especially focused on data coding and analysis functions. No prior...

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 (though perhaps less so in the popular imagination) that much of the Vietnam-era campus protest centered...

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 (CHN) at Northeastern University is a collaborative center with core research partners at the University of Massachusetts...

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 Series welcomes Sheila Davis, Executive Director of the Silicon...

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 Mexus grant to assist in development of a Center for Nanotechnology in...

Dr. R. Kalpana Sastry is presently Head of Division of Agricultural Research Systems Management Policies at National Academy of Agricultural Research Management, Hyderabad, India. She focuses on agricultural innovations, intellectual property...

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 experience a...

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 sci-fi visions – movies like Star Wars, ...

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 innovative technologies solve global climate change and our...

Can scientists develop clean technologies using nanotechnology?

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

Join us as UCSB environmental scientists share their...

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...