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Chicago Nano Forum -
Hype or Hope: Exploring Nano, Risk and Ethics
October 7, 2005

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Some speculate that nanotechnology will provide the answers to mankind's most confounding challenges. Others posit that it will prove to be our greatest debacle. How should we balance nanotechnology's risks and benefits as we shape our future?

Learn more and participate in the dialogue by attending the Center on Nanotechnology and Society's inaugural Chicago Nano Forum panel presentation, entitled "Hype or Hope: Exploring Nano, Risk and Ethics."

Panelists include:

• Nigel M. de S. Cameron, Research Professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, and Director of the Center on Nanotechnology and Society;
• Brent Blackwelder, Washington's leading environmental lobbyist and President of Friends of the Earth;
• Joan Lebow, prominent healthcare attorney, Chicago-Kent College of Law adjunct faculty member, and Center on Nanotechnology and Society Fellow;
• Nik Rokop, leader of the Chicago Microtechnology and Nanotechnology Community; and
• Vivian Weil, distinguished Illinois Institute of Technology professor, and expert on nano and society.

The panel will be moderated by M. Ellen Mitchell, Director of the Illinois Institute of Technology's Institute of Psychology, and Senior Fellow of the Center on Nanotechnology and Society.

This event was co-sponsored by the Chicago Microtechnology and Nanotechnology Community.