NSEC: Nanotechnology in Society Project Imaging, Scientific Change and Public Understanding of Emerging Nanotechnologies

NSEC：社会中的纳米技术项目成像、科学变革和公众对新兴纳米技术的理解

• 批准号: 0531160
• 负责人: Ann Johnson
• 金额: $ 137.5万
• 依托单位: University South Carolina Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-10-01 至 2012-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0531160&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSEC; Nanotechnology; Society; Project; Imaging

This project undertakes four primary activities; two are research efforts, and two are primarily educational in focus. All build on and extend work started through prior NSF award 0304448 "NIRT: From Laboratory to Society." The first research effort, "Imaging, Imagining and Understanding the Nanoscale," focuses on the role of images in communicating about nanoscale science, engineering, and technology. The research will engage stakeholders and scholars in the analysis of issues associated with these images and messages and develop empirical data on public understanding and response. This will create a novel and unique opportunity for extended cross-disciplinary investigation based on philosophical and aesthetic principles, on perspectives from the social and behavioral sciences, on the experience and evolving practice of nanoscientists and instrument makers, and on the experience of other stakeholders and the public. This research will provide a solid foundation for the study of images and their impact on understanding, as well as contributing to the literature on public understanding of science. The second research effort, "Research Culture and Nanostructured Materials," focuses on how nanotechnology research is changing the scientific and engineering practices of nanoresearchers. The National Nanotechnology Initiative anticipates changes in such areas as public/private partnerships, blurring disciplinary lines, and reconfigured relationships between theory, experiment and applications. To open a dialogue that engages practitioners with science studies scholars about this new technology in the making, this research begins by examining the Chemical Industry Vision2020 Technology Partnership roadmap and Sematech's International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors. The project will provide venues for this dialogue, organized topically along lines laid out in the Vision 2020 document: (1) Fundamental understanding and synthesis; (2) Simulations (done in coordination with the Network for Computational Nanotechnology); (3) Instruments and tools (done in coordination with the Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures and the Center for Probing the Nanoscale); and (4) Manufacturing and processing. The first educational effort, "the Nanoliterate Campus," focuses on developing multidisciplinary courses and research opportunities that bring scientists and engineers into fruitful dialog with humanists and social scientists (students and faculty alike). It will engage ten undergraduate "NanoScholars" each year to work on interdisciplinary research tied to this program, support "News from the Bottom," a student-edited journal on societal and ethical interactions with nanotechnology (http://schc.sc.edu/nfb/), and employ three graduate students to pursue research tied to each of the two research projects and to help develop the South Carolina Citizens' School of Nanotechnology.

该项目进行四项主要活动；两个是研究工作，两个主要是教育重点。所有这些都是建立和扩展通过先前的NSF奖励0304448“NIRT：从实验室到社会”开始的工作。第一个研究项目是“成像、想象和理解纳米尺度”，重点关注图像在纳米尺度科学、工程和技术交流中的作用。该研究将使利益相关者和学者参与分析与这些图像和信息相关的问题，并开发有关公众理解和反应的经验数据。这将为基于哲学和美学原则、社会和行为科学的观点、纳米科学家和仪器制造商的经验和不断发展的实践、以及其他利益相关者和公众的经验的扩展跨学科研究创造一个新颖而独特的机会。本研究将为图像及其对理解的影响的研究提供坚实的基础，并为公众理解科学的文献做出贡献。第二个研究项目，“研究文化和纳米结构材料”，聚焦于纳米技术研究如何改变纳米研究人员的科学和工程实践。国家纳米技术计划预计在公共/私人伙伴关系、模糊学科界限以及重新配置理论、实验和应用之间的关系等领域发生变化。为了让实践者与科学研究学者就这项正在形成的新技术展开对话，本研究首先检查了化学工业Vision2020技术合作路线图和Sematech的国际半导体技术路线图。该项目将为这一对话提供场所，按照2020年愿景文件中提出的主题进行组织：(1)基本理解和综合；(2)模拟（与计算纳米技术网络协调完成）；(3)仪器和工具（与先进材料与智能结构中心和纳米尺度探测中心合作完成）；（四）制造加工。第一个教育项目是“纳米文化校园”，重点是开发多学科课程和研究机会，使科学家和工程师与人文主义者和社会科学家（学生和教师都一样）进行富有成效的对话。它将每年聘请10名本科生“纳米学者”从事与该项目相关的跨学科研究，支持学生编辑的关于纳米技术的社会和伦理互动的期刊“来自底层的新闻”（http://schc.sc.edu/nfb/），并雇用三名研究生从事与这两个研究项目相关的研究，并帮助发展南卡罗来纳公民纳米技术学院。