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

纳米技术要成熟成为一种变革性和有益的技术，这一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。这些包括解决科学和技术问题，纳米产品的安全创造、发展和商业化，以及不同公众对纳米技术的接受。位于加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的美国国家科学基金会社会纳米技术中心为理解纳米技术在北美、欧洲、亚洲和其他地区成功发展所面临的挑战提供了一个清晰而全面的方法。通过跨学科研究、教育和参与活动的混合互补组合，CNS-UCSB在持续技术创新的时代，为一系列相关的社会、经济和环境问题提供基本知识。该中心致力于为新一代社会科学和纳米科学专业人员提供教育，同时促进纳米企业起源、纳米技术创新和全球化、社会反应、媒体框架和公众的研究。纳米技术的风险认知。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，同时为社会和技术带来好处。知识价值。CNS-UCSB汇集了来自世界各地的跨学科国际研究人员，共同研究纳米技术在社会和环境可持续发展未来的途径和障碍。CNS致力于在学科工作的前沿开展工作，并为社会上越来越多的纳米技术文献提供高质量的出版物和产品。CNS的研究人员将他们的研究成果发表在领先的科学技术研究、科学史、社会、经济和行为科学、纳米科学与工程以及科学和环境政策期刊上。CNS将研究和会议的结果综合成关于创新政策、专利、比较民族国家产业政策、在美国和国外的NSE合作和机构的作用、纳米技术的媒体框架，以及驱动不同公众和团体形成纳米技术风险感知的因素的元分析论文和报告。更广泛的影响。该中心每年为新一代社会科学、人文科学和纳米科学专业人士提供新颖的跨学科教育机会，包括研究生奖学金和研究助理奖学金，为地区社区学院学生和加州大学圣迭戈分校本科生提供本科生暑期研究实习机会，由加州大学圣迭戈分校研究生指导，以及几名跨学科社会科学博士后。CNS全年举办研究生学分研讨会，为科学与技术研究的本科和研究生课程开发新课程，并将准备教育模块，将研究材料引入NSE本科科学与工程课程，以及社区学院科学和社会科学课程。CNS向广大公众传播与负责任发展有关的技术和社会科学发现，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，以及演讲系列，并在新社会S.NET中发挥创始作用。我们通过电子形式向更广泛的公众和感兴趣的各方进行宣传，如每周剪辑、我们的博客、对研究人员的采访播客和媒体简报。CNS还参与并通知决策者和政府机构；一个精心制作的政策简报的新项目将扩大这种影响。中枢神经系统?联合国杰出的国家咨询委员会允许在研究和传播的各个阶段与所有利益攸关方的领导人进行定期磋商。在更新期间，CNS将与加州大学洛杉矶分校的纳米技术环境影响中心合作，与政府和工业界合作，以公众的经验知识、纳米技术的新兴观点和过去的风险争议为基础，为特定的受众发展风险沟通。

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.