Science and Technology in Society Conference - March 28-29, 2009

Hosted by the ST Global Consortium in Washington, DC

Graduate Student Presentations: Session I
Saturday, March 28, 2009 | 10:15-12:30 PM

Panel A: Health

Revelle | Moderator: Lee Zwanziger, Ph.D., Virginia Tech
Awakening Sleeping Beauty: Promises of eternal youth & beauty packaged through scientific innovation.
- Michelle Smirnova, University of Maryland, College Park
The Relationship between Science and Politics in the Field of Epidemiology
- Nicolas Fortané, University Lumiere-Lyon 2, France
Multiple Births and Medical Risk-Taking
- Lea-Ann Mawler, Virginia Tech

Panel B: Regulation & Law

Abelson | Moderator: Mark S. Frankel, Ph.D., AAAS
Standardization as a Governance Tool for Emerging Technology
- Beate-Josefine Luber, University of Bielefield, Germany
If You Give Them the Inch, They'll Take 1.609344 Kilometres: The Demise of National Metrification in the United States
- Jeffrey Brideau, University of Maryland
Normative Criteria for Translating Uncertainty into Policy
- Jacob Stegenga, University of California, San Diego
Defensive Design, Safety and Liability: Can Manufacturers be Held Responsible for Product Failures?
- Richard Gawne, Western Michigan University
Cost-benefit Analysis, Value Pluralism, and Environmental Decision-making
- Eric Martin, University of California, San Diego

Panel C: Education

Haskins | Moderator: Sheril Kirshenbaum, Duke University
The Absence of Engineering Ethics in China and its Solutions: An STS Perspective
- Fei Guo, Southeast University, Nanjing, China; University of Wisconsin-Madison
Defining a Comparison Sample to Measure the Effect of Institutional Factors on Highly creative Scientific Research: Issues and Options
- Reynold Galope, Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University
Civic Scientific Literacy
- Megan Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Scientific Education as Tool for Education to Citizenship
- Livio Riboli-Sasco, European Graduate School Frontiers of Life, France
Engaging Women in S&T Policy-making: Beyond the Paradox of Under-representation of Women
- Christine Luk, Arizona State University

Panel D: Emerging Fields & Technologies

Auditorium | Moderator: Arie Rip, Ph.D., University of Twente
The Computational Mind and the Collaborative Practice of Science: A Multidisciplinary Study of Work, Networks and Socio-material Practices in Science and Engineering
- Paul Russo, City University of New York
Is it Useful to Compare Biotechnology and Nanotechnology? If So, What May Be the Consequences on Public Participation?
- François Thoreau, Arizona State University
Comparing Modes of Participation, Identity Creation, and Group Maintenance in Different Technical Discourse Communities: C++ and Lisp Newsgroups
- Stuart Mawler, Virginia Tech
Disciplinary Dynamics in Emerging Social Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics
- Svenja Matusall, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Innovation and Collaboration in the Nanoscale Research Laboratory
- Alimahomed Kasim, University of California, Santa Barbera
The Effect of International Scientific Collaborations on National Innovation Capacity
- Ryan Zelnio, George Mason University