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

Hosted by the ST Global Consortium in Washington, DC

Graduate Student Presentations: Session IV
Sunday, April 10th, 2010 | 10:15 - 11:45 AM

Panel A: Security Issues

Forecasting and Preempting Future Cyber-Security Challenges in Pervasive Computing
Evan Faber, George Washington University
Prospect for Regulating the Use of Information Technology in Military Conflict
Tong Zhao, Georgia Institute of Technology
The Usage of Biometrics Technology in Iraq
Sarah Lovell, National Academies
An STS Approach to Emergency Management, Homeland Security & Critical Infrastructure Protection Strategies
James Chandler, George Mason University

Panel B: Issues in Health & Biosciences II

What Would A Prudent Person Do? Setting Standards of Ineluctable Prudence, Reasonable Forseeability, and an Affirmative Duty to Warn in Dual Use Biosecurity Governance Policy
Craig Wiener, George Mason University
Novel technologies, recurring challenges: Engaging the next generation of plant genetic engineering
Adam Kokotovich, University of Minnesota
Implications for health and beyond: Emergency contraceptive advertising in India
Nayantara Sheoran, George Mason University How the battle to transform the American food production and distribution system, symbolized by the battle for defining the word “organic,” is an expression of participatory democracy
Gary Reams, Virginia Tech
Public Health and Profit in Vaccine Science: The Making of Gardasil
Aleia Clark, University of Maryland College Park

Panel C: Tech Transfer

Technological catch up in resources based industries: Analyzing the role of technological regimes in oil and gas industry using US patent data
Ali Maleki, University of Edinburgh
What causes industries to develop and flourish in particular regions?
Jon Kowalski, Carnegie Mellon University
Can Developing Nations Absorb Clean Technologies?: Case Studies of China and India
Jennifer Sklarew, George Mason University
Socio-Technical Barriers to Distributed Generation of Renewable Electricity in the U.S. and West Africa: A comparative analysis
Ogundiran Soumonni, Georgia Institute of Technology

Venue: AAAS Headquarters, 2nd Floor, 1200 New York Avenue, Washington DC 20005, and National Academies Keck Center, 500 Fifth Street NW Washington DC 20001