The Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University
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The Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University NSF #0937591 September 15, 2010 – September 14, 2011 PI: David H. Guston, Arizona State University Co-PIs: Elizabeth Corley, Arizona State University Deirdre Meldrum, Arizona State University Clark Miller, Arizona State University Dietram Scheufele, University of Wisconsin, Madison Jan Youtie, Georgia Institute of Technology Annual Report for the Period September 15, 2010 to September 14, 2011 This report includes work conducted at three collaborating universities of NSEC/CNS-ASU: Arizona State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Annual Report for Award #0937591 October 1, 2010 – September 30, 2011 2. Table of Contents Project Summary 3 List of Center Participants, Advisory Boards, and Participating Institutions 4 Quantifiable Outputs – Table 1 27 Mission and Broader Impacts 29 Highlights 42 Strategic Research Plan 47 Research Program, Accomplishments, and Plans 50 a. RTTA 1 50 b. RTTA 2 55 c. RTTA 3 60 d. RTTA 4 71 e. TRC 1 78 f. TRC 2 82 NSEC Center Diversity – Progress and Plans 90 Education 95 Outreach and Knowledge Transfer 107 Shared and Other Experimental Facilities 123 Personnel 127 Publications and Patents 132 Biographical Information 211 Honors and Awards 219 Fiscal Sections (REMOVED) 220 Cost Sharing (REMOVED) 243 Leverage 258 1 Annual Report for Award #0937591 October 1, 2010 – September 30, 2011 Current and Pending Support 262 Tables Table 1 27 Table 2 (REMOVED 88 Table 3A 106 Table 3B 106 Table 4A 131 Table 4B 131 Table 5 (REMOVED) 258 Table 6 259 2 Annual Report for Award #0937591 October 1, 2010 – September 30, 2011 3. Project Summary The Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center/Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University (NSEC/CNS-ASU) combines research, training, and engagement to develop a new approach to governing emerging nanotechnologies. CNS-ASU uses the research methods of ―real-time technology assessment‖ to enable anticipatory governance through enhanced foresight capabilities, engagement with lay publics, and integration of social science and humanistic work with nanoscale science and engineering research and education. CNS-ASU has two types of integrated research programs, as well as educational and outreach activities (that are themselves well-integrated with research). Its real-time technology assessment programs are: RTTA 1, Research and Innovation Systems Assessment, which uses bibliometric and patent analyses to understand the evolving dynamics of the NSE enterprise; RTTA 2, Public Opinion and Values, which uses surveys and quasi-experimental media studies to understand changing public and scientists‘ perspectives on NSE; RTTA 3, Anticipation and Deliberation, which uses scenario development and other techniques to foster deliberation on plausible NSE applications; and RTTA 4, Reflexivity and Integration, which uses participant-observation and other techniques to assess the Center‘s influence on reflexivity among NSE collaborators. Second, the thematic research clusters (TRCs), which pursue fundamental knowledge and create linkages across the RTTAs, are: TRC 1, Equity, Equality and Responsibility; and TRC 2, Urban Design, Materials, and the Built Environment (―Nano and the City‖). The Center‘s major conceptual-level achievement has been validating anticipatory governance as a richly generative strategic vision. Its major operations-level achievements include: 1) completing the ―end-to- end‖ assessment for TRC 2 by linking multiple RTTA capacities to create novel insights in a study of nanotechnology and the brain; 2) deepening the integration of NSE researchers into CNS-ASU; and 3) building collaborations for informal science education (ISE) on the societal aspects of NSE. Programmatic achievements include: establishing an internationally adopted definition of nanotechnology to assemble and mine bibliographic and patent databases; conducting two national public opinion polls and a poll of leading nano-scientists; demonstrating that intensive public engagement in anticipation of an emerging technology can have significant impact on participants; demonstrating that interactions between NSE researchers and social scientists can generate more reflexive decisions; sustaining an international research program on NSE and equity; exploring views and capacities of human nanotechnologies; and laying the foundations for a new research program in urban design, materials and the built environment. The Center‘s principal intellectual merit derives from the large-scale, interdisciplinary ensemble that underpins it. The ability to embrace and facilitate interactions among disparate approaches to understanding nanotechnologies, and build complementary capacities to tap that knowledge for governance, is the critical intellectual contribution to which CNS-ASU aspires. Both in terms of publications and citations, the Center‘s work has a substantial impact on scholarship. For broader impact, the Center has coupled research, education, and outreach activities exceptionally well by training significant numbers of new scholars from the social sciences and NSE, incorporating forefront research in new courses and ISE opportunities, and returning lessons learned and techniques developed for outreach back to the classroom. The Center has broadened the participation of under-represented groups by cultivating junior scholarship and raising issues of equity, gender, and disability as objects of programmatic study. The Center has enhanced the infrastructure for research and education by organizing community-defining conferences, producing community-defining sources of knowledge, serving as an international hub for dozens of scholars, sharing data and instruments widely, and disseminating its results aggressively to its academic peers as well as to public, scientific, industry, and policy audiences. 3 Annual Report for Award #0937591 October 1, 2010 – September 30, 2011 4. List of Center Participants, Advisory Boards, and Participating Institutions 4. (a) LIST OF CENTER PARTICIPANTS Participants receiving Center support: ASU Braden Allenby Professor Civil & Environmental Engineering Moshe Apelas Associate Professor Engineering Computer Science Andrew Askland Director Center for Law Daniel Barben Assistant Research Professor Consort. for Science, Policy, & Outcomes George Basile Executive Director Decision Theatre for a Desert City Ira Bennett Assistant Research Professor Consort. for Science, Policy & Outcomes Philip Bernick Assistant Professor English Christopher Boone Professor Human Evolution & Social Change Prasad Boradkar Associate Professor Architecture & Landscape Architecture Katja Brundiers Community-Univ. Liaison Global Institute of Sustainability Harvey Bryan Professor Architecture & Landscape Architecture Heather Canary Associate Professor Humanities & Arts Marilyn P. Carlson Professor Mathematics & Statistics Matthew Chew Faculty Associate Sustainability Nalini Chhetri Lecturer Letters & Sciences Netra Chhetri Assistant Professor Consort. for Science, Policy, & Outcomes David Conz Lecturer Letters & Sciences Elizabeth Corley Associate Professor Public Affairs Kevin Corley Assistant Professor Management Kurt Creager Executive Director Stardust Center Sandwip Dey Professor Engineering Rodolfo Diaz Professor Electrical Engineering Chris Diehnelt Professor Biodesign Institute Gary Dirks Director LightWorks Thomas Duening Director Entrepreneurial Programs Terrie Lee Ekin Director Research Administration Karin Ellison Associate Director Biology & Society James Elser Regents’ Professor Life Sciences Scott Endsley Vice President System Design for Quality Improvement Sandy Epstein Sr. Mgr. Strategic Bus. Dev. Decision Theatre Timothy Eschrich Process Engrg. Manager Ctr. for Solid State Electronics Research Mahmud Farooque Associate Director Consort. for Science, Policy, & Outcomes Tricia Farwell Professor Journalism & Mass Communication Adelheid Fischer Staff Innovation Space Erik Fisher Assistant Professor Political Science Matthew Fraser Associate Professor Sustainability Sylvain Gallais Clinical Professor Languages & Cultures Joel Garreau Lincoln Professor of Law Law Jay Golden Assistant Professor Sustainability Aaron Golub Assistant Professor Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning Deborah Gonzalez Chief Academic Officer University Public Schools Stephen Goodnick Professor Electrical Engineering Subhro Guhathakurta Professor Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning Devens Gust Professor Chemistry & Biochemistry 4 Annual Report for Award #0937591 October 1, 2010 – September 30, 2011 David H. Guston Professor Political Science Ed Hackett Professor Human Evolution & Social Change Rolf Halden Associate Professor Biodesign Institute Jiping He Professor Bioengineering Renata Hejduk Associate Professor Architecture & Landscape Architecture Stephen Helms Tillery Assistant Professor Bioengineering Mark Henderson Professor Engineering Kirsten Hendrickson Lecturer Chemistry & Biochemistry Joseph Herkert Associate Professor Humanities & Arts James Hershauer Professor Management Lori Hidinger Associate Director Consort. for Science, Policy & Outcomes Kirby Hoyt Faculty Associate Design Kiril Hristovski Assistant Professor Engineering of Matter, Transport & Energy Ben Hurlbut Assistant Professor Life Sciences Mary Ingram-Water Lecturer Barrett Honors College Marco Janssen Associate Professor Ctr. for Study of Institutional Diversity Paul Johnson Executive Dean Engineering Erik Johnston Assistant