NSECCNS ASU Site Visit

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• Arizona State University
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Georgia Tech
• North Carolina State University
• Rutgers University
• University of Colorado, Boulder

NSEC/CNS-ASU Network
CNS-ASU involves the activities of more than 80
individuals at 6 major collaborating
institutions, as well as other collaborators,
partners, and consultants
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NSEC/CNS-ASU Network ASU and Beyond

• Major Collaborators at ASU
• Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes
• The Biodesign Institute
• CRESMET
• Hispanic Research Center
• College of Design
• Major Collaborators Elsewhere
• DOE Center for Integrated Nanotechnology (CINT)
• NISE Net
• International Nanotechnology and Society Network

In addition to its core social scientists and
humanists, CNS-ASU involves a wide array NSE
researchers and educators in an expanding
international network.
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NSEC/CNS-ASU Management

• CNS-ASU Organization of Staff

CNS director supervises a program manager, who
supervises an administrative assistant and
coordinates with the Biodesign Liaison and
retention coordinator.
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NSEC/CNS-ASU Management

• Interaction of CNS-ASU Elements

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• Real-Time Technology Assessment
• Research and Innovation Systems Analysis (RISA)
• Shapira (GA Tech)
• Public Opinion and Values (POV)
• Scheufele (Wisc) and Corley (ASU)
• Deliberation and Participation (DP)
• Sarewitz (ASU) and Hamlett (NCSU)
• Reflexivity Assessment and Evaluation (RAE)
• Corley (ASU) and Schneider (ASU)
• Thematic Research Clusters
• Freedom, Privacy Security (FPS)
• Poste (ASU) and ???
• Human Identity, Enhancement Biology (HIEB)
• Robert (ASU) and Hogle (Wisc)

NSEC/CNS-ASU Research Program Leaders
Each research program has a leader or leaders who
are in regular contact with the director
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Communication Patterns and Mechanisms

• Executive Committee meets twice per semester
• Institutional leaders communicate w/ monthly
  subcontract reports and informally
• RTTA and TRC leaders communicate mostly
  informally but monthly on average
• Grad and undergrad bi-weekly group meetings
• Post-doc bi-weekly one-on-one
• CNS-ASU monthly newsletter
• Bulletin boards and listservs
• Intranet (in the works)

Vertical communication is currently easier than
horizontal communication
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Meetings

• Ad hoc at annual meetings of various professional
  societies
• Society for Social Studies of Science
• American Association for Advancement of Science
• All Hands Meeting, Sp 07
• Entire CNS-ASU network
• Invited nano-and-society guests
• Board of Visitors?
• Nano-Industry Liaison Committee?
• NSF?
• Gordon Research Conference on ST Policy
  Governing Emerging Technologies, Aug 08

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CNS-ASU Board of Visitors

• Jonathan Fink (VP for Research and Economic
  Affairs, ASU)
• Lawrence Bock (NanoSys, Inc.)
• Diana Hicks (Georgia Tech)
• Steven Hilgartner (Cornell NNIN)
• Sheila Jasanoff (Kennedy School of Government,
  Harvard)
• Ray Kurzweil (Independent Inventor)
• Rachel Levinson (Director, Office of Government
  and Industry Liaison, The Biodesign Institute)
• Richard Nelson (Columbia University)
• David Rejeski (Woodrow Wilson Center)
• Mark Schapiro (Center for Investigative
  Journalism)
• Michael Small (Carnegie Mellon)
• Al Teich (AAAS)
• James Wilsdon (Demos)

The Board of Visitors will convene for the first
time at the planned all hands meeting in Sp 07
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CNS Nano-Industry Liaison Committee

• Gary Bild (Director Analytical RD, Pfizer)
• Larry Bock (Chairman, Nanosys, Inc)
• Ellen Feigal (Vice President, Clinical Services,
  TGen)
• Herb Goronkin (Board Member, NanoBusiness
  Alliance)
• Anatoli Korkin (President, Nano and Giga
  Solutions)
• Michael Moffit (Vice President, Western
  Technologies)
• Michael Tracy (Director, Strategic and Research
  Alliances, The Biodesign Institute)
• Fred Weber (Founding Principal, Next Step
  Management)

The Nano-Industry Liaison Committee may convene
at the planned all hands meeting in Sp 07
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• Reflexivity Assessment
• Intensive interviews with nano researchers
• To understand change in Identity, Knowledge, and
  Practice
• Boundary Organizations
• Comparative case studies
• To assess ability of CNS-ASU to bridge ways of
  knowing nano

RTTA 4 Reflexivity, Assessment and Evaluation
How does CNS-ASU know that it is being
effective? How have NSE researchers views
changed over time? What has CNS-ASU contributed
to institutional change?
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Human Subjects/IRB

• CNS-ASU has no blanket approval
• Each protocol is approved as it goes
• Guston is PI on each ASU protocol, with activity
  leader as co-PI
• ASU ORSPA provides automatic renewal reminders
• Institutional leaders handle their own protocols

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CNS-ASU Physical Space
CNS-ASU has benefited from extraordinary
cooperation from CSPO and Biodesign