Science and Technology in Society: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

April 5 – 6, 2008

American Association for the Advancement of Science
2nd Floor, 1200 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Nina Fedoroff, Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State
David J. Goldston, Former Chief of Staff, House Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives
Professor Fabian Muniesa, Centre de Sociologie de L’Innovation, École des Mines de Paris

Career Panelists

Richard Bissell, Executive Director of Policy and Global Affairs at The National Academies
Sarah Goforth, Senior Producer, Discovery Channel News
Jennifer Hobin, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
Shobita Parthasarathy, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan

Student Panels & Moderators

Health Bonnie Stabile (GMU)
Globalization & STEM Janet Abbate (VT)
ICT Todd La Porte (GMU)
Innovation 1 Nicholas Vonortas (GWU)
Innovation 2 David Hart (GMU)
Science & Ethics/Philosophy Fabian Muniesa (École des Mines)
Environmental and Water Policy Daan Schuubiers (Delft University of Technology)
Environment (General) Alison Vogelaar (Georgetown)
Sustainable Development Christopher Hill (GMU)
Energy & Transportation Nathan Hultman (UMD)
Technology Assessment & Policy David Goldston

Health | Moderator: Bonnie Stabile (GMU)

• Institution, Fragmentation and Equilibrium: Food Safety in China under a Soft Authoritarian Context
  HU Yinglian, Tsinghua University
• Translating Uncertainty into Policy: Influenza Transmission and Mask Choice
  Jacob Stegenga, University of California, San Diego
• Communicating dioxin risks with or without scientific justifications in the Korean society
  Seohyun Park, State University of New York
• International Medical Technology Transfer for Sustainable Development
  Logan D.A. Williams, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Biomedical Research and Health: Disease Specific Earmarks and NIH Appropriations
  Liz Oswald, Columbia University
• Science and health policy: the growth of addictology in France
  Nicolas Fortané, Université Lumière-Lyon
• What to do in Pandemic Flu?
  Karima Nigmatulina, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Globalization & STEM | Moderator: Janet Abbate (VT)

• Foreign Doctoral Recipients: Fields of Study, Nationality, Baccalaureate Origins, and Impact on Ph.D Admissions and Production in the United States (1997-2004)
  Fang Zhou, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Effect of international technology diffusion on the demand of skilled labor in low and medium technology (LMT) sectors
  Juan Julio Gutierrez, George Mason University
• Rethink “Brain-Drain”: China’s High-skilled Migration
  Yu Meng, Georgia Institute of Technology
• The STEM Doctoral Degree Trends of Asians in the United States
  Yu Tao, Georgia Institute of Technology

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ICT | Moderator: Todd La Porte (GMU)

• An Invisible Connection: Information Theory, Cognitive Psychology and Humankind
  Hung Chih Wei, Virginia Tech
• Public Policy and the Geospatial Information Commons
  Puneet Kishor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• MySpace, Facebook and Employee Privacy
  Richard T. Gawne, Western Michigan University
• A Rhetorical Analysis of Competing Copyright Conceptualizations, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Creative Commons
  LiAnna L. Davis, Georgetown University
• The Internet development in Nepal: A case study
  Jitendra Parajuli, George Mason University
• Facebook "Friends": How Digital Identities Affect Offline Relationships
  Jessica Vitak, Georgetown University
• ICTs in Development: Examining Diffusion Models in Network Infrastructure Projects
  Katy Calbreath, Georgetown University

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Innovation 1 | Moderator: Nicholas Vonortas (GWU)

• A trend analysis of EPO patents in the food sector
  Marjolein van der Klauw and Jaap Veldkamp, Utrecht University
• How far is the new ERA heading away from the challenges of the Risk Society?
  Catherine Fallon, Université de Liège
• Advancing Defense and Intelligence Capabilities through Venture Capitalist Partnerships
  Vinh Nguyen, George Washington University
• Balancing National Security and Scientific Openness
  Lauren Gibson, George Washington University
• Government Enabled Innovation: Different Strategies to Promote Public and Private Innovation
  Ryan S. Lewis, University of Maryland

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Innovation 2 | Moderator: David Hart (GMU)

• How Innovative You Are?: Investigating the Relationship between Political Partisanship and Regional Innovation Capacity
  Yu Jin (Jinnee) Jung, George Mason University
• The Partnerships Of Academic Spin-Offs: From Transfer To Collective Exploration
  Liliana Doganova, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris
• Simulating the Impact of Policy on Science-Oriented Entrepreneurship
  Ryan Sutter, George Mason University
• Citizen science: Trans-expertise partnerships and heterogeneous networks for distributed knowledge production
  Tyson Vaughan, Cornell University
• The Economic Impact of University R&D in Relation to University Patenting
  Jaewon Choi, State University of New York

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Science & Ethics/Philosophy | Moderator: Fabian Muniesa (École des Mines)

• Assessing Flemish citizens' moral argumentations on nanotechnologies: an incentive to reconsider the interactive Technology Assessment approach to new and emerging technologies
  Michiel van Oudheusden, University of Antwerp
• The Social Negotiation of a Scientific Controversy
  Brian Dick, University of California, Davis
• Programming Languages as Designed Objects
  Stuart Mawler, Virginia Tech
• Closure by Unclosure. A perspective on the role of conflict in the study of technological controversies
  Andrea Lorenzet, University of Padova
• Design Theory and Ethics: Affinities and Connections
  Nassim Jafarinaimi, Carnegie Mellon University
• On the performativity of science-fiction: A semiotic approach to the development of virtual worlds
  Jean Béhue Guetteville, École Polytechnique
• The Scientific and the Catastrophic: an Anthropological View
  Yoann Moreau, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
• Examining Potential Futures: A Designer's Toolbox for Identifying Potential Social and Cultural Implications
  Shannon Lidberg, Arizona State University

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Environmental and Water Policy | Moderator: Daan Schuubiers (Delft University of Technology)

• Wetland Social Characterization and Management
  April Karen Baptiste, State University of New York
• Is Interlinking of Rivers Project through inter-basin regional water transfer a possible remedy for solving water crisis in India? A Critique of the National Water Policy in India
  Nidhi Pasi, Syracuse University
• Striving to minimize ‘missed opportunities’ in Central Arizona water management: One boundary organization’s attempt to reconcile the local supply of and demand for science
  Clea Senneville, Arizona State University
• Ecosystem approaches to managing the Laurentian Great Lakes: philosophical and practical differences
  Emily Therese Cloyd, Syracuse University
• A Stochastic Model for Hurricane Logistics, Preparedness, Response, and Humanitarian Aid
  Michael D. Metzger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Rethinking power: The negotiation of technical instruments as a renewed way of influencing the policy-making process?
  Magalie Bourblanc, Sciences Po

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Environment (General) | Moderator: Alison Vogelaar (Georgetown University)

• Fluctuating Wind in Networks of Stability – The Encounter between the Electrical Grid and Wind Turbines
  Trine Pallesen, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris
• Technology as a promise for environment: a comparative approach on green policies of two energy technologies in France and in the United Kingdom
  Dalya Guérin, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne Paris
• Governance of Environmental Impacts of High-tech Industry in Developing Countries: Top-down versus Bottom-up Approaches
  Wen-Ching Chuang, Arizona State University
• Public Reasoning and the Emergence of Global Environmental Governance Regimes: The Case of IMoSEB
  Chad Monfreda, Arizona State University
• Control Theory: Why Pollution Control Technologies Have Failed to Keep Pace
  Derrick Nelson, Georgetown University

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Sustainable Development | Moderator: Christopher Hill (GMU)

• State science, irrigation policies and resettlement management: the multidimensional effects of a large dam on the social reorganization of a village in Central India
  Joel Cabalion, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
• Between Progress and Decline in Green Engineering: The Two Poles of the Environmentalist Continuum
  Nicholas Sakellariou, Virginia Polytechnic School and State University
• From Federal Paternalism to Political Autonomy: White Mountain Apache Cultural Appropriation of Science and Technology, 1933-2000
  David Tomblin, Virginia Tech
• Intensification of Artisanal Fishery: Conflict and Conflict Management. New Roles for Local Institutions for Fisheries Management in Mozambique
  Ana Maria De Noronha Menezes, Syracuse University
• Application of Remote Sensing to Urban Environmental Monitoring
  Sainan Zhang, Arizona State University

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Energy & Transportation | Moderator: Nathan Hultman (University of Maryland)

• Paying for the Future of Transportation: Technology Enabling a Market Based Approach
  Matthew Hardy, Noblis
• Reality Check Plus - Energy Use Scenario for the State of Maryland
  Stephen Reiling and Bhuwan Thapa, University of Maryland
• Fuzzy Analysis Of Traffic Flows Through Intelligent Tunnel System
  Andrej Stijepić, University of Ljubljana
• Concentrated Photovoltaics for Industrial Facilities
  Roger Lueken, University of Maryland
• Coal Mining Design and Environmental Sustainability
  John Craynon, Virginia Tech
• Evaluating and Optimizing Intermodal Freight Transport on an Emissions Basis: A GIS Approach
  Colin Murphy, Rochester Institute of Technology
• A Review of Biofuel Policies in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007: Filling in the Holes
  Don MacKenzie, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Technology Assessment & Policy | Moderator: David Goldston

• Implications of Scientists' Use of Social Computing Technologies for Scientific Communication, Science Policy, and Public Understanding of Science
  Christina K. Pikas, University of Maryland
• Bridging the divide between science and society: the case of institutionalised technological reflexivity
  Pierre Delvenne, Université de Liège
• Fixing the Vote, the Better Elections through Technology
  Douglas T. Anderson, Virginia Tech
• When Science Advice Matters: Perspectives from Divergent Literature
  Roy Pettis, George Washington University
• Assessing societal impact of health research in the Dutch Life Sciences: A quantitative approach
  Bastian Mostert, Utrecht University
• Evaluating Subjective Expert Judgment for Science Policy: An Application of the Bayesian Truth Serum
  Rebecca Weiss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Nanotechnology and Public Opinion: A NetLOGO Simulation
  Ahson Wardak, University of Virginia

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