Science Blogversation
LiveWire presents our first Science Blogversation. This inaugural event focuses
on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. We’ve invited a panel of guests to blog with us on this topic; to
help us understand where we are and where we’re going.
This special LiveWire blog is sponsored by C&EN Online's
NanoFocus, which provides original content
and collects Nanotechnology-related news from throughout the American Chemical Society. Serving as an
archive for Nanotechnology news covered by Chemical & Engineering News,
NanoFocus content is included with an
institutional subscription to C&EN Online.
LiveWire presents our first (hopefully of many) Science Blogversation. This inaugural event focuses on
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. We've invited a panel of guests to blog with us on this topic; to
help us understand where we are and where we're going. I am LiveWire Features Editor Doug Storm and
I will serve to simply get the buckyball rolling.
David M. Berube is author of Nano-Hype: The Truth Behind the Nanotechnology Buzz and the
Nano-Hype blog . He is a Professor of Speech
Communication Studies and Government-Industry Coordinator of Nanoscience and Technology Studies at
the University of South Carolina.
Richard A. L. Jones is author of Soft Machines: Nanotechnology and Life and the
Soft Machines blog . He is Professor of
Physics at Sheffield University.
Bob Michaelson is Head of Northwestern University's Seeley G. Mudd Library for Science and Engineering.
Ted Sargent, author of The Dance of Molecules: How Nanotechnology is Changing Our Lives, is Professor in the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. From 2004 through 2006 he also was visiting
Professor of Nanotechnology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Janet Stemwedel is a chemist turned Professor of Philosophy at San Jose State and is well known for her blog
Adventures in Ethics
and Science where she goes by the blogonym Dr. Free-Ride.