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The South
Carolina Citizens’ School of Nanotechnology (SCCSN) is a program of public
engagement with science in which experts and
non-experts exchange
information, concerns
and values through dialogue, presentations, readings, and lab tours.
This style of public
engagement was created at
the University of South Carolina in Spring 2004 and has received
much attention nationally and
internationally.
Tom Vogt,
Ph.D., Director of the USC NanoCenter, says that “While nanoscience might have
the first
word on what type of
society we can build, it will not have the last word on what type of society
we will build."
The S.C. Citizens’
School of Nanotechnology opens those kinds of questions to the layperson."
Among the topics of
special concern to many people are nanomedicine, with its promises of fighting
cancer,
and the environmental
implications of nanotechnology, including both risk and remediation.
Each of these
topics are included in the
SCCSN, along with nanotech in science fiction and other topics.
The Citizens’ School is for people who are curious about
nanotech and want a general introduction.
Participants do not need
to have any expertise in science or engineering.
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OCTOBER 2006: PROFESSOR DONGGAO ZHAO
OF THE USC ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
CENTER DEMONSTRATES ELECTRON MICROSCOPES TO SCCSN
PARTICIPANTS.
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