Workshop: Building Better Futures-Junior Scholar Support for the 2015 Annual Meeting of The Society for the Study of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies (October 18-21, 2015)

这个奖项是为了支持一个研讨会，这是纳米科学与新兴技术研究学会(S.NET)的第七届年会。会议将于2015年10月18日至21日在加拿大魁北克省蒙特雷亚尔举行。它将与关于纳米技术网络的伦理、环境、经济、法律和社会问题知识网络一起举办。这笔资金将用于使学生、博士后研究人员、初级学者和独立学者能够参加并充分参与在蒙特雷亚尔举行的2015年S.NET会议，他们的旅费和住宿费最少。技术概述S.NET是一个国际学术组织，致力于对不同领域的技术科学研究和开发进行批判性和多样化的分析。它包括广泛的学术和专业团体，并努力将相应广泛的学科视角和方法纳入其学术活动。该奖项将支持初级科学和技术研究学者以及来自代表性不足群体的学生和研究人员的专业发展。更广泛地说，它将鼓励产生对多种重要社会活动具有重大和实用价值的学术成果，包括广泛的科学和技术调查的关键进展、产品开发和可持续市场化的创新方法，从而保障人类的短期福祉和长期生存和丰富。

General Audience SummaryThis award is to support a workshop, the seventh annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies (S.NET). The meeting will take place in Montréal, Québec, Canada, on 18-21 October 2015. It will be held in conjunction with the Knowledge Network on the Ethical, Environmental, Economic, Legal and Social issues regarding Nanotechnology Network. The funds will be used to enable participation of students, postdoctoral researchers, junior scholars and independent scholars who have minimal travel and lodging funds to attend, and fully participate in, the 2015 S.NET meeting in Montréal. Technical SummaryS.NET is an international scholarly organization devoted to furthering critical and diverse analyses of technoscientific research and development in various fields. It includes a wide range of academic and professional communities, and strives to incorporate a correspondingly broad spectrum of disciplinary perspectives and methodologies into its scholarly activities. The award will support the professional development of junior science and technology studies scholars, as well as students and researchers from underrepresented groups. More generally, it will encourage the production of scholarship of significant and practical value to multiple important societal activities, including the critical advancement of a wide range of scientific and technological inquiries, innovative approaches to product development and sustainable marketization, and, consequently, insurance of the near-term well-being and longer-term survival and enrichment of humanity.