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Elizabeth Corley, Research Team Leader at the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at ASU, comments in an article regarding nanotechnology. The unknown human health and environmental impacts of nanotechnology are a bigger worry for scientists than for the public, according to a new report in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
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STS Graduate Student Summer Opportunity: In summer 2008, the Social Science Research Council will sponsor 12 Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowships in the field of Critical Studies of Science and Technology Policy. Deadline 2/9/08 apply at:
http://programs.ssrc.org/dpdf/scitechpolicy/
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ASU’s new Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology Interdisciplinary Graduate Degree Program is now accepting applications. For more information, visit http://hsd.asu.edu/.
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ASU Faculty Share in Nobel Honors: ASU Researchers have long been working with IPCC, and the IPCC is now sharing the Nobel Prize with Al Gore. ASU’s connection to IPCC includes Netra Chhetri, an assistant professor in ASU’s School of Geographical Sciences and the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes.
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Fall
2007 Courses: CSPO faculty and affiliates are offering courses in
medicine and the media; science and governance; science, technology and
inequality; technology and society; global change; and more…
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Democratization, International Knowledge Institutions and Global
Knowledge:
Clark Miller examines the rapid rise in the creation of international
knowledge institutions, arguing that these institutions reflect a
growing effort by nations and publics to assert democratic constraints
on the on the global exercise of power.
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Science, Policy and Social Equity:
This special issue of Science and Public
Policy
explores the opportunities for, and
difficulties with, addressing inequities through science policy.
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CSPO in the news:
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The May 2007 Newsletter:
The Monthly newsletter is now online
for your viewing pleasure.
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Future of Earth's Climate Tough for Science to Predict:
CSPO
Post Doc and Professor of Geography, Netra Chhetri discusses
climate change and its potential implications for water in the U.S.
Southwest in The Arizona Republic...
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The Enlightening Lunches are back:
Come join us on Tuesday, May
1st, for a talk with Claire Gordon.
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The Dreams of a Dissenting Science: Energy and Democracy in India:
Come join us on April 26th as CSPO's Shiv Visvanathan gives a talk on
this topic.
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Five Questions on the Philosophy of Technology:
“If technological innovation is understood as a core activity of the
human species, as organic as composing music or falling in love—which it
is—rather than an elective hobby that can either be pursued or not, then
the core question about technology becomes one of governing, of
modulating, the innovation activity itself.” From an essay by
Dan
Sarewitz in the
Philosophy of Technology.
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The
January 2007 Newsletter is now online.
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Jamey Wetmore's letter to the editor.
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Workshop Report: Policy Implications of Technologies for Cognitive
Enhancement:
This is a report on the workshop held at
Arizona State University, May 3-5, 2006, sponsored by the Consortium
for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Arizona State University and the
Advanced Concepts Group at Sandia National Laboratories.
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Decision Making Under Uncertainty: Ranking of Multiple Stressors
on Central Arizona Water Resources: This draft sensitivity analysis of
multiple stressors on Phoenix water resources is developed as part
of the SPARC project.
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"Surveillance and Security: Technological Politics and Power in
Everyday Life" written by Torin Monahan, a CSPO affiliated faculty
member.
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