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

加州大学旧金山分校的纳米技术社会中心（CNS-UCSB）将作为一个国家研究和教育中心，一个关注纳米技术社会影响的研究人员和教育工作者的网络中心，以及一个在美国和国外研究这些影响的资源基地。该中心将重点关注新一代社会科学，人文科学和纳米科学专业人员的教育，纳米技术的历史背景，纳米技术的创新过程和全球传播，以及对纳米技术的风险认知和社会反应，以及公众参与制定纳米技术未来议程的方法。该中心拥有科学、文化、社会科学、技术和工程方面的专业知识，将创建跨学科工作组，以解决纳米级社会影响中的一系列相关问题;联合收割机结合研究、教学和传播功能，系统地让不同社区参与对社会中纳米技术的分析;参与包括学生和教师在内的外展和教育计划，并扩展到行业，社区和环境组织，政策制定者和公众。该中心将工程师和物理科学家的工作与社会科学和社会纳米技术的人文研究相结合。其研究分为三个工作组。第一组将研究纳米技术的历史和当前背景。第二个将解决与影响纳米技术创新、全球传播和商业化的体制和社会文化因素有关的问题。第三个将审查社会风险的看法，新兴的纳米技术，评估方法纳入公众关注，并分析社会抗议运动有关的纳米技术。 该中心的一个主要理由是开发协同和合作的机会，这些机会来自不同智力取向的人之间的接近和定期接触的优势。 该中心将以多种方式开展此类综合活动，包括将综合所有工作组的系统级数据的中心范围内的纳米规划练习，纳米科学家及其学生在工作组中的充分参与，教师和学生跨组参与者的流动性，正在进行的协作会议，数据和研究成果合成，联合出版物以及研究生共同指导计划。 所有的活动都被设计为跨学科互动和交流的焦点，特别是工程师物理科学家，一方面，社会科学家人文主义者，另一方面。该中心将赞助研究生专业发展，设计本科课程，让教师和学生参与有针对性的计划，并创建以纳米技术和社会为重点的公共信息计划。它将举办活动，吸引工业合作者，社区和环保团体以及公众。这些活动还将提供机会，传播和收集公众对与三个工作组的研究有关的问题的反应。该中心的信息交流中心将为国家和全球社区提供服务，作为一个在线门户网站，可以访问该中心的研究和教育材料和资源，以及关于所有中心方案的信息。这包括纳米级研究的国际领导地位，加州纳米系统研究所，社会科学研究中心，专注于技术，文化和社会之间的关系，以及有利于跨学科成功合作的环境。该中心将整合研究生和本科生在社会科学，人文科学，物理科学和工程到这种合作。该中心的工作包括与美国，加拿大和英国的主要研究人员直接进行国际合作。此外，该中心将成为一个发展中的国家机构和合作者网络的一个大节点，这些机构和合作者致力于更好地了解纳米技术和社会以及共同的研究和教育举措，该中心将发展有关纳米技术的组织、筹资和管理的新知识;有关当前创新体系的经济、社会和科学影响的新知识;关于纳米技术的全球分布;以及关于纳米技术的风险和潜在的集体社会反应的看法。该中心的研究人员将综合不同的学科方法和不同的研究计划，并提出政策解决方案，他们分析的问题。该中心还将为来自不同领域和背景的学生创造新的跨学科教育机会，特别是那些目前在技术研究中代表性不足的学生。该中心将向更广泛的公众传播其研究结果，促进公众参与纳米企业，并支持来自不同学科的学术研究人员和教育工作者，工业科学家，社区和环境团体以及政策制定者之间的对话。

The Center for Nanotechnology in Society at UCSB (CNS-UCSB) will serve as a national research and education center, a network hub among researchers and educators concerned with nanotechnologies' societal impacts, and a resource base for studying these impacts in the US and abroad. The Center will focus attention on education for a new generation of social science, humanities, and nanoscience professionals, on the historical context of nanotechnology, on innovation processes and global diffusion of nanotech, and on risk perception and social response to nanotechnology, as well as methods for public participation in setting the agenda for nanotechnology's future. With expertise in science, culture, social science, technology, and engineering, the Center will create cross-disciplinary working groups to address a linked set of issues in nanoscale social impacts; combine research, teaching, and dissemination functions that systematically involve diverse communities in the analysis of nanotechnology in society; and engage in outreach and education programs that include students and teachers and extend to industry, community and environmental organizations, policymakers, and the public. The Center will integrate the work of engineers and physical scientists with the social scientific and humanistic study of nanotechnology in society. Its research is organized into three working groups. The first group will study nanotechnology's historical and current contexts. The second will address questions related to institutional and socio-cultural factors influencing the innovation, global diffusion, and commercialization of nanotechnology. The third will examine social risk perception concerning emerging nanotechnologies, assess methods for incorporating public concerns, and analyze social protest movements related to nanotechnology. A primary rationale for this Center is to develop the opportunities for synergy and collaboration that arise from proximity and the advantages of regular contact among people of diverse intellectual orientations. The Center will pursue such integrative activities in several ways, including Center-wide scenario-planning exercises that will synthesize systems level data from all working groups, full involvement of nanoscientists and their students in the working groups, mobility by faculty and student participants across groups, on-going collaborative meetings, data and research findings synthesis, joint publications, and a program for co-mentoring of graduate students. All activities are designed as focal points for interaction and exchange across disciplines, especially between engineers & physical scientists, on the one hand, and social scientists & humanists, on the other.The Center will sponsor graduate professional development, design undergraduate curricula, involve instructors and students in targeted programs, and create public information programming focused on nanotechnology and society. It will host events that engage industrial collaborators, community and environmental groups, and the public. These events will also provide opportunities to disseminate and collect public response to questions relevant to the research of the three working groups. The Center's Clearinghouse will serve national and global communities as an on-line portal to the Center's research and educational materials and resources and to information on all Center programming.CNS-UCSB reflects the special character of the University as a host institution. This includes international leadership in nanoscale research, the California NanoSystems Institute, social science research centers focused on relations among technology, culture, and society, and an environment conducive to successful collaboration across disciplines. The Center will integrate graduate and undergraduate students in the social sciences, humanities, and physical sciences and engineering into this collaboration. The Center's work includes direct international collaborations with leading researchers in the US, Canada, and the UK. In addition, the Center will form a large node in a developing national network of institutions and collaborators engaged in establishing a better understanding of nanotechnology and society and common research and education initiatives.The Center will develop new knowledge about the organization, funding and management of nanotechnology; about the economic, social and scientific effects of the current innovation system; about the global distribution of nanotechnology; and about perceptions of nanotechnology's risks and potential collective social responses. The Center's researchers will synthesize different disciplinary approaches and distinct research programs and propose policy solutions to the problems they analyze. The Center will also create new cross-disciplinary education opportunities for students from a range of fields and backgrounds, particularly those currently underrepresented in technological studies. The Center will disseminate its findings to the wider public, facilitate public participation in the nano-enterprise, and support dialogue between academic researchers from diverse disciplines and educators, industrial scientists, community and environmental groups, and policy makers.