Todd Kuiken
Senior Research Asscociate, Science and Technology Innovation Program, Woodrow Wilson Center

VT's Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology (VT SuN) and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars are partnering to make the current Nano Consumer Products Inventory (NCPI) more relevant to stakeholder needs. This partnership is creating exciting new research opportunities at the interface between nanoscale science and engineering and public policy. Participation from undergraduate and graduate researchers working with core VT SuN faculty will be critical to the program's success. This seminar provides a forum for interested students and faculty to learn more about the partnership and opportunities available for research and collaboration.

The National Nanotechnology Initiative in the U.S. recently celebrated its 10 year anniversary. The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) recently updated its Consumer Products Inventory which now lists over 1300 products, which held only 54 when PEN first started tracking products back in 2005. After 10 years and billions of dollars in research where do we stand in terms of technological achievement, environmental health and safety research and possibly most important, societies understanding and acceptance of nanotechnology? Looking forward to the next 10 years, where will science and society be in terms of these questions and where should our focus be in an environment with shrinking federal and state research budgets and where 60% of the public in 2010 say they still have heard little to nothing about nanotechnology?

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Location:	ICTAS Cafe X
Price:	Free
Sponsor:	ICTAS
Contact:	Shelley Johnson shelleyj@vt.edu 540-231-1929
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