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CNS-UCSB Annrpt Yr 11 (6) 2016 Final for Distribution.Pdf NSF SES 0938099 Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center at University of California, Santa Barbara Year 6 (11) Annual Report March 16, 2015 – March 15, 2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3. Project Summary 1 4. Participants 2 4A. Center Participants 2 4B. Advisory Board 27 4C. Participating Academic Institutions 28 4D. Participating Non-Academic Institutions 30 5. Quantifiable Outputs 32 6. Mission, Significant Advances, and Broader Impacts 33 7. Highlights 35 8. Strategic Research Plan 43 9. Research Program, Accomplishments, and Plans 47 IRG1 47 IRG2 54 IRG3 75 XIRG 96 10. Center Diversity Progress and Plans 107 11. Education 112 12. Outreach and Knowledge Transfer 126 13. Shared and Other Facilities 140 14. Personnel 145 15. Publications and Patents 154 16. Biographical Information 164 17. Honors and Awards 165 18. Fiscal (Withdrawn) 167 18A. Statement of Residual Unobligated Funds (Withdrawn) 167 18B.1 Current Year Actual Expenditures (Withdrawn) 168 18B.2 Proposed Increment Budget (Withdrawn) 170 19. Cost sharing (Withdrawn) 171 20. Leverage (Withdrawn) 172 21. Current and Pending Support (Withdrawn) 179 22. Business Plan 182 LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES Table 1 Quantifiable Outputs 32 CNS-UCSB Research Program Figure 44 Table 2 NSEC Program Support 106 CNS-UCSB Education Program Objectives Figure 112 Table 3A Education Program Participants - Irrespective of Citizenship 124 Table 3B Education Program Participates - US Citizens and Permanent Residents 125 CNS-UCSB Org Chart 146 Table 4A NSEC Personnel – Irrespective of Citizenship 152 Table 4B NSEC Personnel – US Citizens and Permanent Residents 153 Table 5 Other Support 174 Table 6 Partnering Institutions 175 3. PROJECT SUMMARY The Center at UC Santa Barbara addresses questions of nanotech-related societal change through research and education that encompasses three main areas: IRG-1: Origins, Institutions, and Communities produces and integrates a diverse range of historical sources and research tools in order to understand specific facets of the nano-enterprise’s history; IRG-2: Globalization and Nanotechnology addresses global industrial policy and development of nanotechnology, with a particular focus on China, Japan & India as well as Latin America and pathways to the use of nanotechnologies to spur equitable development; and IRG-3: Risk Perception and Social Response conducts social research on formative nanotech and other emerging technologies risk and benefit perceptions in the US and abroad by multiple stakeholders and modes of enhancing public participation. Strategic topic projects (solar energy, California and global industry, media coverage of nano) and Seed Grant projects extend and integrate the three IRGs’ work. In combination, these efforts address a linked set of issues regarding the domestic US and global creation, development, commercialization, production, consumption, and control of specific kinds of nanoscale technologies. Important features of CNS’ approach are commitment to issues of socially and environmentally sustainable innovation; participatory research with nanoscientists; a focus on specific nanotechnologies and comprehensive consideration of their applications in industries like electronics, energy, food, environmental, and health; and employment of a comparative global framework for analysis with attention to responsible and equitable development. IRG 3 studies cross-national modes of enhancing public participation. The Center’s three IRGs combine expertise in many fields: technology, innovation, culture, cognition and perception, health, energy, global industrial development, gender and race, environment, space/location, and science and engineering. Core collaborators are drawn in the US from UCLA, Chemical Heritage Fdn., Decision Research, Duke Univ, Lehigh Univ, and SUNY EST and New Paltz, and internationally from Cardiff Univ (UK), Maastricht Univ (the Netherlands), Univ of British Columbia (Canada), Univ of Nottingham (UK) and Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas (Mexico). CNS-UCSB has served as a leader in the NSF Network for Nanotechnology in Society and is co-founder of the international scholarly organization S.NET, which is successfully forging an international community of nano and emerging technology scholars from nations around the globe. CNS-UCSB is a research partner in the NSF/EPA-funded UC Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology at UCLA/UCSB. Education and Outreach programs at CNS-UCSB aim to nurture an interdisciplinary community of nano scientists, social scientists, humanists, and educators who collaborate in CNS IRGs and achieve broader impacts through informed engagement of diverse audiences in dialogue about new technologies and society. CNS-UCSB provides 3-5 postdoctoral researcher positions per year. Graduate Fellowships and researcher postions for social science and NSE grads enable them to participate jointly in CNS IRG research and education. A hallmark of CNS-UCSB education is the introduction of scientists- and engineers-in-training into the methods and practices of societal research and their use to address responsible development. A CNS 8-week intensive summer undergraduate internship program run for 9 times over the duration of the CNS awards integrates diverse California community college students into CNS research. Through a year-round bi-weekly seminar program, a speakers series, conferences and workshops large and small, visiting scholars, informal science education events for the public, new media dissemination, numerous public events with community members, and accelerating outreach to key sectors of government, industry, and NGOs, the CNS maintains a solid following of campus, local, and national and international media, and interest by government, industry, NGOs, and the general public. In 2015-16 CNS-UCSB continued substantial progress in research on pathways and impediments to socially and environmentally sustainable futures for nanotechnologies, producing 71 new publications, bringing total publications since our renewal 5.5 years ago to 365, with another 46 in the publication stream, and making 61 presentations this year at academic venues. Appelbaum, Harthorn, Pidgeon, and Simon each provided critical input to national policymaking bodies in the US and UK, and CNS researchers made over 40 presentations to key audiences in government, industry, NSE, and the public. 1 4. PARTICIPANTS 4A. CENTER PARTICIPANTS Bold indicates Active in Year 11 (March 16, 2015 - March 15, 2016) University of California, Santa Barbara ( *co-funded) Senior Personnel Name Title Department Organization *Peter Alagona Associate Professor History & Environmental UC Santa Barbara Studies Sarah Anderson Associate Professor BREN School of UC Santa Barbara Environmental Science & Management Richard Appelbaum Research Professor Sociology, Global & International UC Santa Barbara Studies David Awschalom Professor Physics UC Santa Barbara Director California NanoSystems Institute Javiera Barandiaran Assistant Professor Global & International Studies UC Santa Barbara Edwina Barvosa Associate Professor Feminist Studies UC Santa Barbara Bruce Bimber Professor Political Science, UC Santa Barbara Communication Tim Cheng Professor Electrical & Computer UC Santa Barbara Engineering Brad Chmelka Professor Chemical Engineering UC Santa Barbara Jennifer Earl Professor Sociology UC Santa Barbara William Freudenburg Professor (deceased) Environmental Studies UC Santa Barbara Fiona Goodchild Education Director (Retired) California NanoSystems Institute UC Santa Barbara Michael Goodchild Professor (Retired) Geography UC Santa Barbara Barbara Herr Harthorn Professor Anthropology UC Santa Barbara Director CNS-UCSB Craig Hawker Professor Chemical Engineering UC Santa Barbara Director Materials Research Laboratory, MRSEC Director California Nano Systems Institute Patricia Holden Professor BREN School of UC Santa Barbara Environmental Science & Management 2 Name Title Department Organization George Legrady Professor Media Arts & Technology UC Santa Barbara Program John Majewski Professor History UC Santa Barbara Interim Dean Humanities and Fine Arts College of Letters & Science W. Patrick McCray Professor History of Science UC Santa Barbara Aashish Mehta Associate Professor Global & International Studies UC Santa Barbara Miriam Metzger Professor Communication UC Santa Barbara John Mohr Professor Sociology UC Santa Barbara Meredith Murr Director Research Development UC Santa Barbara Christopher Newfield Professor English UC Santa Barbara David Novak Associate Professor Music UC Santa Barbara Lisa Parks Professor Film & Media Studies UC Santa Barbara Director Center for Information Technology & Society (CITS) Casey Walsh Associate Professor Anthropology UC Santa Barbara Sub-Award PIs Name Title Department Organization Frederick Block Professor Emeritus Sociology UC Davis Joseph Conti Assistant Professor Sociology & Law University of Wisconsin Sharon Friedman Professor Science Journalism, Lehigh University Communication Gary Gereffi Professor Sociology, Duke University Center for Globalization, Governance & Competitievness (CGGC) Robin Gregory Senior Researcher Psychology Decision Research Timothy Lenoir Professor New Technologies in Society, Duke University Literature & Computer Science Chair Kimberly J. Jenkins for New Technologies in Society Cyrus Mody Associate Professor History & Technology Studies Rice University David Mowery Professor Economics, Business School UC Berkeley 3 Name Title Department Organization Nicholas Pidgeon Professor
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