| | to the Center for Bioethics, Science, and Society's webportal into nanotechnology. This website is designed to clearly and effectively communicate our ongoing research efforts on the ethics of nanoscience and technology. Nanoscience is a burgeoning field enabled by the advancement of scientific instruments, and gets its name from the size of the particles it examines and manipulates. New technology has built instruments that enable scientists to carry out more precise and controlled experiments, so precise that they can study and control individual atoms and molecules. Our research, then, is aimed at challenging this nanoscale research and its technological applications with the questions of ethics. In particular, we focus on the nanoscale projects carried out at Northwestern University. We ask: Toward what end does this research aim? Is there any reason, in principle, that this research should not be performed? In doing so, we hope to contribute to a Northwestern research community that continually responds to and engages our local, national, and global communities. We can only work towards this goal with your help. We hope you find our website an informative and engaging place to begin your own reflection and investigation on nanotechnology and its potential, for both good and harm. Please contact us with your questions and comments; we encourage you to get involved and let your voice be heard. Sincerely, Laurie Zoloth (PI), Marissa Gostanian, and colleagues | |
| - Chad Mirkin, PhD, the Director of NU's Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center and theIllinois Institute of Nanotechnology will be giving a lecture describing his research at Northwestern. Mark Ratner, PhD, Morrison Professor of Chemistry will be giving a lecture describing his research at Northwestern. Please go here for more information and to register.
- The International Institute for Nanotechnology Symposium will take place on October 24, 2007 in the newly renovated Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Orrington, 1710 Orrington Avenue, Evanston, Illinois (this is an easy walk from the NU Evanston campus). See the IIN's website for more detail: http://www.iinano.org/symposium/2007/
- Marta Flory, BA has been an integral part of the Center for Bioethics, Science, and Society for the past year. Her dedication to the Center and to the ethical, legal, and societal implications of nanotecnology and research are missed and not forgotten. We wish her luck and success with all her future endeavors!
- SEIN committee members will listen to presentations given by members of the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center on their most cutting edge research. This is part of an ongoing effort to review and reflect on the ethics of the nanoscience projects being carried out at Northwestern University and to ensure that these projects are responsive to those needs and concerns expressed by society.
- is a new collaborative project led by Dr. George Khushf from the University of South Carolina. The goal is to design a model for transdisciplinary, translational scientific research that incorporates pro-active ethics reflection. See the Project tab for more details.
- is a book manuscript being prepared for release in early 2008. See the Project tab for more details.
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