STEM Ed Announcement: Nanotechnology and Society: Emerging Organizations, Oversight, and Public Policy Systems

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 Contact information is below.
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 *Nanotechnology & Society: Emerging Organizations, Oversight, and Public
 Policy Systems*
 September 24, 2010
 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
 Lincoln Campus Center, Amherst Room, 10th Floor
 University of Massachusetts Amherst
 http://umass.edu/sts/nano/2010.html
 
 The 3rd Nanotechnology and Society Workshop organized by the Science,
 Technology and Society Initiative and the Center for Hierarchical
 Manufacturing addresses emerging oversight and policymaking systems for
 regulation and guidance of nanotechnology research, applications, and
 impacts. Among the questions to be discussed are: What are the relative
 roles of public, private and non-profit actors in the provision of policy
 guidance? To what extent and in what ways do existing processes serve
 well?
 What are the key gaps in existing processes? What are the effects of
 globalization, advances in computing, economic crises and other trends on
 nanotechnology policymaking and oversight processes and arrangements? 
 What
 can be learned from concepts of emergence and social construction that
 would
 shed light on current developments in nanotechnology policymaking?
 
 Speakers include:
 
    - J. Clarence Davies, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future
    - John Howard, Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety
 and
    Health (NIOSH)
    - Timothy Malloy, Professor of Law, UCLA
    - Terry L. Medley, Global Director of Corporate Regulatory Affairs,
    DuPont
    - Jeff Morris, National Program Director for Nanotechnology, US
    Environmental Protection Agency
    - Jordan Paradise, Associate Professor of Law, Seton Hall University
    - Richard Sclove, Founder and Senior Fellow, The Loka Institute
    - Treye Thomas, Consumer Product Safety Commission
 
 Registration is once again free, but required.
 
 
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 Michelle Sagan Goncalves
 Program Manager,
 National Center for Digital Government
 Science, Technology, and Society Initiative
 Qualitative Data Analysis Program
 Managing Editor, Journal of Information Technology & Politics
 Gordon Hall, 2nd Floor
 UMass Amherst
 Amherst, MA 01002
 tel. +1 413 577 2354
 
 
 
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