Chicago Nano Forum Event Hosted by IIT’s Center on Nanotechnology and Society
Chicago, IL — January 20, 2006 —
Brave New Nano: Regulating the Future
Monday, January 30, 2006
5:30 p.m.
Chicago-Kent College of Law Auditorium
565 W. Adams Street
Panelists:
- Sonia E. Miller, foremost emerging technologies attorney and nanoregulation authority, and Founder and President of the Converging Technologies Bar Association; Kristen Kulinowski, leading nanopolicy and civil society expert, and Executive Director for Education and Public Policy of the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology and the International Council on Nanotechnology at Rice University;
- Michael Bremer, business productivity and quality measurement expert, and President of The Cumberland Group—Chicago, a performance improvement consulting organization; and
- Dawn Willow, Legal Fellow and coordinator of the Center on Nanotechnology and Society’s electronic bank of nano-related ELSI (i.e., ethical, legal and social issues) resources.
The panel will be moderated by Nigel M. de S. Cameron, Director of Illinois Institute on Technology's Center on Nanotechnology and Society and Associate Dean and Research Professor of Bioethics at Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Founded in 1890, IIT is a Ph.D.-granting technological university awarding degrees in the sciences, mathematics and engineering, as well as architecture, psychology, design, business and law. IIT’s interprofessional, technology-focused curriculum prepares the university’s 6,200 students for leadership roles in an increasingly complex and culturally diverse global workplace.
