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Chicago Nano Forum -
Risky Business? Risk Perception & Nano Business
A Community Forum Hosted by
IIT's Center on Nanotechnology and Society
March 21, 2007
5:30 p.m.
University Technology Park at IIT
3440 S. Dearborn Street
Chicago, IL

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While concerns about nanotoxicity are the risk-management priority among those in the nano-know, the general public is only vaguely aware of nanotechnology. This lack of public awareness could, however, be transformed overnight - and for the worst - by the marketing machinery's hijacking of "nano" as promotional buzzword du jour, and by the techno-fringe's adoption of nano as the vehicle for realizing their sci-fi visions of molecular manufacturing and transhumanism. Risky Business? Risk Perception & Nano Business, hosted by the Center on Nanotechnology and Society (Nano & Society), seeks to engage a critical discussion about nanotechnology business risk - real and perceived. The event, which is free but requires an RSVP, will feature:

• Patti Glaza, vice president and publisher of Small Times;
• Dietram Scheufele, professor of life sciences, communication, and journalism and mass communication at the university of Wisconsin, Madison, and the Wisconsin principal investigator for the NSF-funded Center for Nanotechnology in Society;
• Aatish Salvi, vice president of the NanoBusiness Alliance;
• Jo Mackiewicz, Ph.D., assistant professor in the IIT department of humanities.

David Baker, executive director of the University Technology Park at IIT, will open the program. Nigel M. de S. Cameron, Ph.D., Nano & Society director, and associate dean and research professor of bioethics at Chicago-Kent College of Law, will frame the discussion by offering opening and closing remarks. And, Michele Mekel, J.D, M.B.A., M.H.A., Nano & Society associate director, will moderate the panel.

Cosponsored by:
University Technology Park at IIT
Illinois Science Council
Chicago Microtechnology and Nanotechnology Community