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

Hosted by the ST Global Consortium in Washington, DC

Graduate Student Presentations: Session III
Sunday, March 29, 2009 | 10:30-12:45 PM

Panel A: Science & Development

Revelle | Moderator: Caroline S. Wagner, Ph.D., George Washington University
Indigenous Peoples, Technological Globalization, and Social Mobilization
- Lindsay Green-Barber, City University of New York
The Value of Public Sector Data and Information to Civil Society Organizations’ in South Africa: Evidence from the Fight to Eradicate Poverty
- Raed Sharif, Syracuse University
Glimpse into Opportunities for Collaborations in R&D in Science and Technology between Developed and Developed
- Nasir Mohammed, Sheda Science and Technology Complex, Nigeria

Panel B: History of Science

Abelson | Moderator: Amy Crumpton, Ph.D., AAAS
Science becomes Political: The Russian Academy of Sciences’ Struggle for Autonomy (2006-2008)
- Amy Elizabeth Wilson, Georgetown University
At the Airport’s Edge: A Century of Negotiating the Landside-Airside Boundary
- Victor Marquez, Cornell University
From Sail to Steam 1838-1900 – The Transition that Never Was
- Lech Lebiedowski, University of Alberta, Canada
The Society for Opposing the Endowment of Research: A Controversy over the Funding of Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- Andrea Marchesetti, University College London
Looking into the Iron Box: Space-Based Reconnaissance of the Iron Curtain in the 1960s
- Mel Eulau, Virginia Tech

Panel C: New Media/Web 2.0

Haskins | Moderator: Garrison LeMasters, Ph.D. Georgetown University
Thinking about Design Metaphors
- Todd Andre, The University of Calgary, Canada
Cyberprotest in Modern Russia
- Volodymyr Lysenko, University of Washington
Millenials and Web 2.0 Social Networking: A New Face of Leadership and Enabler for Public Sector Innovations
- Edward Logan, Kamram Naim, Stephanie Pals, Georgetown University
Working with/in Wikipedia: Infrastructure of Knowing and Knowledge Production
- Stuart Geiger, Georgetown University
SimyCity: Stimulating Risk Society
- Zeynep Tanes, Purdue University

Panel D: Business Sector

Auditorium | Moderator: David Hart, Ph.D., George Mason University
How Can the Social Studies of Finance Help us to Understand Financial Markets?
- Erica Coslor, University of Chicago
Should U.S. Airports Accomodate New Large Aircraft?
- Vivek Sakhrani, MIT
Knowledge Production Sociological Relationships in Consumer Product Distribution Networks
- Le-Marie Thompson, Virginia Tech
Entrepreneurship and the Myth of Venture Capital: Why Should Informal Investment Gain More Attention?
- Anwar Aridi, George Washington University