Science and Technology in Society Conference - April 9th - 11th

Hosted by the ST Global Consortium in Washington, DC

Graduate Student Presentations: Session I
Saturday, April 10th, 2010 | 9:00 - 10:30 AM

Panel A: Climate Change

Antarctic Research and the Rise of an Environmental Regime
Sebastian Grevsmühl, Centre Alexandre Koyré (CNRS / EHESS)
Climate Change: Implications of Science and Technology Policy for Adaptive Capacity
Chris Mercer, Arizona State University
Sector Based Analysis Of The Automotive Industry Approaches To Ghg Abatement And Climate Change Mitigation
Parisa Bastani, University of Cambridge
The Geography of U.S. Climate Action Planning
Aaron Crowell, University of Minnesota
Using web-based tools and ethical deliberation to stabilize the climate
Kyla Dahlin, Stanford University

Panel B: Communities of Expertise

An Interaction Analysis Framework: Charting Deviance from Tacit Community Norms
Stuart Mawler, Virginia Tech
How Are Policy Experts Invented? Construction of Nanotechnology Policy Experts in South Korea
Byoungyoon Kim, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Actors and Assemblages: on the profusion of models in STS, SSK, and social theory
Alasdair McMillan, York University
That Old Black Box Magic?: Expertise and Activism in Technoscientific Controversy,
Stevienna de Saille, University of Leeds

Panel C: Education and Labor

Structural disequilibrium in workforce training in biomedical sciences in United States: Quantitative modeling approaches to analyze the current bottleneck and its long-term implications.
Tania Dutta, University of California at Berkeley
Integrative University Collaborations as an Innovation Strategy for Catching-Up Countries: A Case Study of the MIT-Portugal Program
Sebastian Pfotenhauer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
From PLATO to Podcasts: Fifty Years of Federal Involvement in Educational Technology
Matthew Cherian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Highly Skilled Foreign-born Talent’s Decision for Location in US Mega-Regions
Jing Li, George Mason University

Panel D: Technology & Markets

From Open Source To Open Science: An Exploration Of The Necessary Conditions For Successful Translation
Aura Bertoni, Università Commercial e Luigi Bocconi
Promising Agribusiness Innovation Approach to Enabling Sustainable Development in Asian Agriculture
Bajrang Lal, Jawaharlal Nehru University
It’s a Small World After All: Power, Technology, Corporations, and Consumers
Connie Culler, University of Central Florida
Innovation and Economic Development: Regional Variance in Entrepreneurial Activity
Luke Purcell, George Mason University
Moore's Law vs. Broadband: Considerations for the Future of Computing and Technological Advancement
Evan Faber, George Washington University