Spotlight- Nano-ethics and the Worldwide Web

The Center for Workforce Development (The College of Engineering, University of Washington), has received an Ethics in Engineering and Science Education grant from the National Science Foundation to address what prior CWD research has identified as a need for nano-ethics graduate education in science and engineering. The three-year project, Nano-ethics on the World Wide Web: Helping Faculty Enhance Graduate Education, will involve the development of a graduate seminar in nano-ethics to be piloted at the UW, distribution of nano-ethics educational resources online, and hosting an international symposium on nano-ethics together with the University of South Carolina’s first meeting of the Society for Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies (Sept. 8-11, 2009 in Seattle, Washington).