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MU to set up centre of excellence in nanotechnology

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A centre of excellence in nanotechnology will be set up at Mangalore University within eight months, said Vice-Chancellor T. C. Shivashankara Murthy.

Addressing teachers and students at the 33 Foundation Day lecture at Mangalagangotri on Thursday Prof. Murthy said that four Ph.D. theses relating to nanotechnology had been produced under the guidance of teachers of the Department of Material Science at the university within a decade. Teachers and research scholars at the university have published 40 research papers relating to nanoparticles.

The Vice-Chancellor said the university had set up a Centre of Excellence for bio-diversity and bio-prospecting. Its main objective was conservation of endemic, rare, threatened, and endangered species of the Western Ghats by setting up a four-acre garden and bio-prospecting of the plants under a project funded by the State government. The government has funded Rs. 60 lakh for this centre.

The university plans to strengthen this centre by setting up two laboratories at a cost of Rs. 2.50 crore.

Mr. Murthy said under the 12 Plan grant, the University Grants Commission (UGC) released Rs. 5.3 crore to the university a fortnight agoFormer Vice-Chancellor of Kuvempu University K. Chidananda Gowda delivered the foundation day lecture on education for the new millennium.

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Article Makes a Hash out of Nanotechnology and its Impact

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Over the years, I thought I had become accustomed to mainstream journalists making a hash out of the subject of nanotechnology. I've even had the misfortune of watching videos starring famed TV physicists making bizarre predictions about the problems that will ensue from the changes brought on by nanotechnology. I thought I had steeled myself so I would not be bothered by these sorts of things anymore, but along came the latest mishmash of half-informed scaremongering.

Its a perfect storm of wrongheadedness. It was penned by Ainissa G. Ramirez, Ph.D., a noted author and science evangelist, giving it an air of veracity. But that doesn't keep the piece from going wrong right from the outset. You can find the first misstep in the second sentence: By miniaturizing matter, science fact will look like science fiction. Okay, once and for all: Nanotechnology has nothing to do with miniaturizing matter. Nanotechnology is not the real-life version of the 1960s sci-fi film Fantastic Voyage. We are not shrinking matter.

Ramirez apparently skimmed the wrong articles to mine that nugget of information. The rest of the article, as far as nanotechnology is concerned, scans about right; it includes all the typical references you would expect from someone who skimmed some articles on nanotechnology: gold is red at the nanoscale, using hair to visualize the nanoscale, et cetera.

This is not to say Ramirez does not fudge some other references to nanotechnology for dramatic effect. For example, there's this gem: Do we want small particleswhich we can't imagine let alone seeswimming in our water supply and covering everything around us?

Swimming? Covering everything around us? Really? The "scholarly paper" she must have been referencing is Michael Crichtons novel Prey. Outside the world of fiction, man-made nanoparticles are not going to cover everything.

While these egregious misstatements of fact got my blood boiling, its the main thesis of the article that is perhaps the biggest problem. Ramirezs argument boils down to the idea that pursuing technology has unintended consequences that, in balance, are bad for us. This is a popular meme among so-called environmentalists. Ramirez suggests that the automobile, while likely considered a really great idea at the time of its invention, brought on obesity because it eliminated an alternate course of history wherein we would have been walking or cycling. I suppose this line of argument appeals to a certain segment of the population that would like us to return to the bucolic times before all the inventions of our modern age. Sigh. Why cant these technology-for-dummies summaries ever be informed or reasonable?

To address the crossroads that Ramirez believes we are approaching with nanotechnology (where it could potentially be the next thing to blame for our obesity), she suggests public engagement and dialog about its impact. Really? What a novel idea. Too bad it seems to have escaped Dr. Ramirezs skimming that there has been so much public engagement for years now that research has been looking at whether it has any usefulness. It also doesnt help matters that the very people that will accept Ramirez's line of thinking are the ones who have boycotted public engagement efforts.

Worse yet, the article was published in the perfect vehicle for wide dissemination: the Huffington Post, which is as mainstream as it gets. So a lot of people are apt to read the article and be misinformed. The Huffington Post is developing a rather poor reputation for its coverage of nanotechnology. And it's a pity because there are lots of brilliant commentators on the subject of nanotechnologys potential impactpeople who could provide well-reasoned and substantiated arguments on the topic. Ramirez's article, unfortunately, does neither.

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What is Nanotechnology? – Sci Guide (Ep 36) w/ Mark Champkins – Head Squeeze – Video

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Discover the incredible applications for nanotechnology with Mark Champkins in this Science Guide Headsqueeze video. Basically nanotechnology is engineering ...

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Nanotechnology invisibility cloak for the military so called quantum stealth technology – Video

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Record crowd of more than 1,500 explores nanotechnology at CNSE’s Community Day – Video

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Record crowd of more than 1,500 explores nanotechnology at CNSE #39;s Community Day
A record crowd of more than 1500 people participated in Community Day at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) on Saturday, November 3, re...

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Gov. Cuomo Announces International Nanotechnology Partnership Between New York and Israel – Video

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Gov. Cuomo Announces International Nanotechnology Partnership Between New York and Israel
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to establish an international partnership between New York State and th...

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