NSEC: Center for Nanotechnology in Society at University of California, Santa Barbara

NSEC：加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校社会纳米技术中心

• 批准号: 0938099
• 负责人: Barbara Harthorn
• 金额: $ 607.6万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-15 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0938099&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSEC; Center; Nanotechnology; Society; University

The global vision for nanotechnology to mature into a transformative and beneficial technology depends on an array of interconnected and complex factors situated within a rapidly changing international economic, political, and cultural environment. These include the resolution of scientific and technological questions, the safe creation, development, and commercialization of nano-products, and the acceptance of nanotechnology by diverse publics. The NSF Center for Nanotechnology in Society at University of California at Santa Barbara provides a clear and comprehensive approach to understanding challenges to successful development of nanotechnologies in N. America, Europe, Asia and other regions. Through a mixed, complementary portfolio of interdisciplinary research, education, and engagement activities, CNS-UCSB produces basic knowledge about a linked set of social, economic, and environmental issues at a time of sustained technological innovation. The Center addresses education for a new generation of social science and nanoscience professionals as it fosters research on the origins of the nano-enterprise, the innovation and globalization of nanotechnology, and the social response, media framing, and the publics? risk perception of nanotechnologies. CNS-UCSB will continue to use its evolving international research infrastructure to create a genuine learning community of diverse participants who can pool their knowledge for the simultaneous benefit of society and technology. Intellectual Merit. CNS-UCSB brings together a diverse and talented interdisciplinary, international group of researchers from around the globe to conduct collaborative research on pathways and impediments to socially and environmentally sustainable futures for nanotechnologies. CNS has a strong commitment to produce work at the cutting edge of disciplinary work as well as contributing high quality publications and products to the to the growing body of literature on nanotechnologies in society. CNS researchers publish their work in leading science and technology studies, history of science, social, economic and behavioral science, nanoscale science and engineering, and science and environmental policy journals. CNS synthesizes results of research and meetings into meta-analysis papers and reports on innovation policy, patents, comparative nation-state industrial policy, the role of collaboration and institutions in NSE in the US and abroad, media frames for nanotechnology, and factors driving formative nanotechnology risk perception among diverse publics and groups. Broader Impact. The Center provides novel interdisciplinary educational opportunities for a new generation of social science, humanities and nanoscience professionals via graduate fellowships and research assistantships, undergraduate summer research internships for regional community college students and UCSB undergrads, mentored by UCSB graduate students, and several interdisciplinary social science postdocs per year. CNS convenes a year-round graduate seminar for credit and develops new courses for undergraduate and graduate curricula in science and technology studies, and will be preparing educational modules for introduction of research materials into the NSE undergrad science and engineering curriculum, and community college science and social science curricula. CNS disseminates technological and social scientific findings related to responsible development to a broad public and facilitates public participation through public engagement in dialogue with academic researchers from diverse disciplines. CNS-UCSB hosts conferences and workshops for diverse audiences, more specialized meetings for educators and researchers, and speaker series, and plays a founding role in the new society, S.NET. Outreach to still wider publics and interested parties takes place via electronic forms such as the Weekly Clips, our blog, podcasts of interviews with researchers, and media briefings. The CNS also engages and informs policymakers and governmental agencies; a new program of carefully crafted policy briefs will extend this reach. CNS?s distinguished National Advisory Board allows regular consultation with leaders of all stakeholder constituents, at all phases of research and dissemination. In the renewal period, and in collaboration with UCLA's Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology, CNS will work with government and industry to develop risk communication for particular audiences grounded in empirical knowledge of the public, emerging views of nanotech, and past risk controversies.

纳米技术成熟成为一种变革性和有益的技术的全球愿景取决于一系列相互关联的复杂因素，这些因素位于快速变化的国际经济，政治和文化环境中。这些包括科学和技术问题的解决，纳米产品的安全创造，开发和商业化，以及不同公众对纳米技术的接受。位于圣巴巴拉的加州大学的NSF社会纳米技术中心提供了一个清晰而全面的方法来理解在N.美洲、欧洲、亚洲等地区。通过跨学科研究，教育和参与活动的混合，互补的组合，CNS-UCSB在持续的技术创新的时候产生关于一组相关的社会，经济和环境问题的基本知识。该中心致力于新一代社会科学和纳米科学专业人员的教育，因为它促进了对纳米企业起源，纳米技术创新和全球化，以及社会反应，媒体框架和公众的研究。对纳米技术的风险认知。CNS-UCSB将继续利用其不断发展的国际研究基础设施，创建一个真正的学习社区，由不同的参与者组成，他们可以汇集知识，同时造福社会和技术。 智力优势。 CNS-UCSB汇集了来自地球仪的多元化和有才华的跨学科国际研究人员，对纳米技术的社会和环境可持续未来的途径和障碍进行合作研究。CNS坚定地致力于在学科工作的前沿开展工作，并为社会上日益增长的纳米技术文献提供高质量的出版物和产品。CNS研究人员在领先的科学和技术研究，科学史，社会，经济和行为科学，纳米科学和工程以及科学和环境政策期刊上发表他们的工作。CNS将研究和会议的结果合成为关于创新政策，专利，比较民族国家产业政策，美国和国外NSE合作和机构的作用，纳米技术的媒体框架以及推动不同公众和团体形成纳米技术风险认知的因素的荟萃分析论文和报告。更广泛的影响。该中心通过研究生奖学金和研究助理，为新一代社会科学，人文科学和纳米科学专业人员提供新的跨学科教育机会，为区域社区学院学生和UCSB本科生提供本科夏季研究实习，由UCSB研究生指导，每年还有几个跨学科社会科学博士后。CNS召开了一个全年的研究生研讨会的信贷和开发新的课程，本科和研究生课程的科学和技术研究，并将准备教育模块的研究材料引入NSE本科科学和工程课程，社区学院科学和社会科学课程。不扩散研究中心向广大公众传播与负责任的发展有关的技术和社会科学成果，并通过公众参与与不同学科的学术研究人员的对话，促进公众参与。CNS-UCSB为不同的受众举办会议和研讨会，为教育工作者和研究人员举办更专业的会议，并在新社会S.NET中发挥创始作用。通过电子形式，如每周剪辑，我们的博客，与研究人员的访谈播客和媒体简报，更广泛的公众和感兴趣的各方进行外联。CNS还与政策制定者和政府机构接触并向其提供信息;一项精心制作的政策简报新计划将扩大这一范围。中枢神经系统杰出的国家咨询委员会允许在研究和传播的所有阶段与所有利益相关者组成部分的领导人进行定期磋商。在更新期间，并与加州大学洛杉矶分校的纳米技术的环境影响中心合作，CNS将与政府和行业合作，根据公众的经验知识，纳米技术的新兴观点和过去的风险争议，为特定受众开发风险沟通。