Center for Nanotechnology in Society

11/10/2016

CNS releases three synthesis reports:

Exploring Nanotechnology’s Origins, Institutions, and Communities: A Ten Year Experiment in Large Scale Collaborative STS Research

Globalization and Nanotechnology: The Role of State Policy and International Collaboration

Understanding Nanotechnologies’ Risks and Benefits: Emergence, Expertise and Upstream Participation.

UCSB Center for Nanotechnology in Society synthesis reports include recommendations for technology policymakers

07/20/2016

This recent Congressional Quarterly Researcher report on nanotechnology includes insights from CNS research group leaders Barbara Herr Harthorn and Richard Appelbaum on public attitudes towards nanotechnology, media coverage, global competitiveness, and industrial policy in China and the U.S.

Introduction

07/19/2016

You can learn about the interdisciplinary CNS graduate education program in Chapter 14, penned by CNS Education Coordinator Brandon Fastman, CNS Director Barbara Herr Harthorn, and CNS Education Director Miriam Metzger.

This book presents the perspectives of nanotechnology educators from around the world. Experts present the pressing challenges of teaching nanoscience and...

07/14/2016

The United States stands to lose valuable economic contributors unless it removes immigration barriers to international STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) students who earn advanced degrees here, according to a study released today by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

06/06/2016

Congrats to CNS undergrad researcher Catherine Enders, recipient of a Chancellor's Award for Undergraduate Research Excellence.

Recognized for their outstanding contributions to undergraduate research, three UC Santa Barbara graduates win Chancellor's awards

04/18/2016

"[T]he frames within Twitter conversations have significant implications for how communities understand, develop, and mobilize around environmental issues."

(2016). A pipeline of tweets: environmental movements’ use of Twitter in response to the Keystone XL pipeline. Environmental Politics: Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 223-247. doi: 10.1080/09644016.2015.1105177

04/08/2016

Where is on the value chain in Mexico? CNS collaborators inventoried 139 companies. See their findings here.

This study presents an inventory of 139 nanotechnology companies in Mexico, identifying their geographic distribution, economic sector classification, and position in the nanotechnology value chain. We find that the principal economic sector of nanotechnology-engaged firms involves the manufacture o…

03/30/2016

Apr 2, 2016 - Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History - Interested in how structures ten thousand times smaller than a strand of human hair can manipulate the color of light? What devices do scientists use ...

03/10/2016

Follow along with researchers Richard Appelbaum and Xueying Han as they study Chinese undergraduate students in the United States as part of a larger effort to understand how globalization is reshaping education, labor, and the international economy. "Particularly," they write in their Open Science Notebook, "as Chinese undergraduate students become increasingly present on U.S. campuses, it is important to understand what motivates them to come to the U.S., what kinds of challenges they face, and what their future career goals are and how this might impact the U.S. economy, competitiveness, and immigration policies."

Welcome to our open science notebook! Welcome to our open science notebook where we detail the progress of our research project on Chinese undergraduate students in U.S. institutions of higher education! We are researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara and we fully believe in the pr…

03/10/2016

No plans at CNS to study the societal impacts of nano-enabled chain lubrication, but we do house some recreational cyclists who wouldn't mind "marginal speed gains."

Muc-Off is now selling chains pre-treated with the company’s Nanotube Speed Film, a treatment developed specifically for Bradley

02/23/2016

Former CNS Postdoc Mary Collins co-authored a study on "hyper-polluters," finding that facilities emitting the highest amounts of air pollution are more likely to be located near poor and minority neighborhoods. Read about it in the Washington Post.

A new study makes the case for "environmental justice."