Public Perceptions
- events/archive October 23, 2007 Join “Consumers Talk Nano” What are the possible risks and benefits of nanotechnology and consumer products?
- events/archive September 25, 2007 Nanotechnology: What’s That? Nanoscience and nanotechnology are two of the hottest fields in research, investment, and manufacturing. But how many Americans know what nanotechnology is? Does the U.S. public feel that the potential benefits of nanotechnology will outweigh potential risks? video
- news/archive September 25, 2007 Poll Reveals Public Awareness of Nanotech Stuck at Low Level National survey findings released today indicate that Americans’ awareness of nanotechnology remains low. Popular awareness is nearly as small as the tiny nanoscale materials and nano-enabled devices and products now flowing onto the market from this rapidly progressing technology that experts believe will usher in a new industrial revolution.
- news/archive July 2, 2007 Nanotechnology, Medicine and Bioethics Dr. Andrew Maynard, chief science advisor for the Wilson Center’s Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, and Dr. Mauro Ferrari, chairman, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, were invited to discuss nanotechnology and nanomedicine before a meeting of the President’s Council on Bioethics.
- news/archive June 25, 2007 Nanotechnology: Consumers Must Be Convinced Benefits Outweigh Risks
- events/archive June 11, 2007 Perspectives on Nanotechnology: Business, Government and Public Health Scientists have hailed nanotechnology as the next great scientific revolution, poised to create revolutionary changes in the daily lives of people worldwide. At an event hosted by the Project at the Dirksen Senate Office building, a panel of experts offered different perspectives on the budding potential of nanotechnology, but also cautioned that exploiting the unpredictable properties materials exhibit at the nanoscale may have as much potential to harm as to help. video
- news/archive May 17, 2007 Nanotechnology Now Used in Nearly 500 Everyday Products
- news/archive March 7, 2007 Survey Finds Emotional Reactions to Nanotechnology
- publications/archive March 1, 2007 Nanotechnology Risk Perceptions: The Influence of Affect and Values
- events/archive December 13, 2006 Nanotechnology: The Story Behind the Headlines Little science is big news, or is it? Does the media tend to hype nanotechnology, or neglect it? Do newspaper headlines focus more on nanotechnology’s risks than its benefits? How do journalists write stories on a technology about which most Americans know next to nothing and that is invisible to the human eye? video
- publications/archive December 5, 2006 What Drives Public Acceptance of Nanotechnology? Published in Nature Nanotechnology 1
- events/archive December 5, 2006 Dreaming of a Nanotech Christmas What Persuades the Public to Embrace and Buy Nanotechnology? video
- news/archive December 5, 2006 Nanotechnology’s Potential Threatened by Weak Public Education and Outreach Dr. Lane made his remarks today at a Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies event at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The program marked the release of a new article in the December 2006 issue of the journal Nature Nanotechnology, “What drives public acceptance of nanotechnology?” video
- news/archive October 23, 2006 Nanotechnology: Next Big Thing, or Much Ado About Nothing?
- publications/archive October 10, 2006 FDA and Nanotechnology: Public Perceptions Matter
