DRAFT STSGLOBAL 2015 STUDENT PAPER PANELS
(March 18, 2015)
Panel A:
Date:
Time:
The Innovation Question
April 10, 2015
9:20 – 10:45
Moderator: TBD
Presenter
Paper
Brittany Balcom
Expanding the Reach and Use of Citizen Space Science as
Policy Innovation
Meng-Hao Li
The Effect of Translational Science Policy on Scholarly
Collaboration Networks and Academic Innovations
Michael J.
Intervention Research for Responsible Innovation: A
Bernstein
Pragmatic Approach
Alexander Frolov
Government Innovation Policy for Developing Countries:
upgrading theoretical concepts
Christina Reynolds
Increased Transparency amid Research Institutions
Promotes Innovation and Cooperation
Room:
Abelson (AAAS)
School
George Washington
University
George Mason
University
Arizona State University
Russian Academy of
Sciences Institute of
National Economic
University of Michigan
Panel B:
Date:
Time:
Large Technological Systems:
April 10, 2015
9:20 – 10:45
Challenges, Fusion, and Sustainability
Moderator: Sonja Schmid (Virginia Tech)
Presenter
Paper
Edward W.
The R&D System for Pediatric Drugs: Challenges to
Wolfgang
Hughes’s Systems Theory
Mel Eulau
Unconventional Fusion: Can Upstart Fusion Projects
Sustain Socio-Technical Momentum?
Steven Sacco
Manufacturing after Vertical Integration: Disintegrated
Production and its Implications for STS and Economic
Sociology
Derek T. Parrott
Fusion as a Commercialized Sustainable Energy Source
Room:
Haskins (AAAS)
Panel C:
Date:
Time:
The Internet: Policy, Narratives, and
April 10, 2015
9:20 – 10:45
Hacktivism
Moderator: Janet Abbate (Virginia Tech)
Presenter
Paper
Jeffrey Caso
The Glass House of Privacy and Google Glass: The Privacy
Implications of a Disruptive Technology
Nivedita Kashyap
A Bill of Rights for the Internet - Lessons from Brazil
Richard Hilberer
Crypto-Anarchists, Hacktivists and Whistleblowers: The
Information Revolutionaries at the Liberty Tree in the
Global Square and Government Response to Socially
Driven Hacking
Richmond Wong
Big Data: Narratives of the Crowd and the Cloud
Room:
Revelle (AAAS)
School
Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech
Loyola University
Drexel University
School
Georgetown University
Georgetown University
Virginia Tech
University of California,
Berkeley
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Panel D:
Date:
Time:
Influenza: Questions of Justice to
April 10, 2015
2:35 – 4:00
Perception
Moderator: Rebecca Hester (Virginia Tech)
Presenter
Paper
Chrissy Vu
One Flu East, One Flu West, One Flu Over the Cuckoo’s
Nest: A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Pandemic
Influenza Paradoxes in Epidemiology
Philip Egert
Justice in the Life Sciences: an alternative approach to
resolving the dual use dilemma
Rachel Gur-Arie
University Student Knowledge and Perception of
Influenza
Room:
Abelson (AAAS)
School
Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech
Arizona State
University
Panel E:
Date:
Time:
Technology: Meaning(s) and
April 10, 2015
2:35 – 4:00
Application(s)
Moderator: TBD
Presenter
Paper
Tasha RijkeTam-tams, Toly and Trash: (Un)Settling the Sovereign
Epstein
Cityscape In Early Colonial Majunga (1890s-1930s)”
Peter Joseph
Techethnie: Can Technology Create a Single Cultural Identity?
Moons
Charles de Souza
What does uranium mean?
Patrick Osei Darko Mined Land Reclamation Assessment Using Geospatial
Technology: A Case Study
Room:
Haskins (AAAS)
Panel F:
Date:
Time:
Ethics & Practice in the (Bio)medical Era
April 10, 2015
2:35 – 4:00
Moderator: TBD
Presenter
Paper
Melanie Jeske
Standardizing Adiposity, Standardizing bodies: Conceptualizing
Health in the Era of Obesity
William Drust
Embodied Care, Spatiality, and the Ethics of Robotic Surgery
Eman Badr
The Ethics of Equipoise in Clinical Trials
HungYin Tsai
Scientization of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Taiwan during
1845-1945: The Power of a Colonial Authority
Room:
Revelle (AAAS)
School
University of
Michigan
Salve Regina
University
Virginia Tech
Kwame Nkrumah
University of
Science and
Technology
School
Drexel University
Drexel University
Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech
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Panel G:
Date:
Time:
Sustainability as a Question of
April 11, 2015
2:15 – 3:35
Knowledge, Nature, and Technology
Moderator: TBA
Presenter
Paper
Sadegh Foghani
Immigration and STEM Professionals: The Case of Iranian
Diaspora
Joe Lupton
Post War Vietnam's growth of the furniture industry and
efforts to preserve surviving forests and establish sustainable
lumber policies
Carli Flynn
Characterization of Factors Influencing the Decision to Adopt
Green Infrastructure Technologies in U.S. Urban Areas
Carlo Altamirano
The Social Value of Mid-Scale Energy in Africa: Redefining
Value and Redesigning Energy to Reduce Poverty
Room:
114 (NAS)
Panel H:
Date:
Time:
Technology: (Un)Limited?
April 11, 2015
2:15 – 3:35
Moderator: Janet Abbate (Virginia Tech)
Presenter
Paper
John M. Bozeman
History of Technology/History of SETI
Jennifer Carter
Applying Cultural Theory to the Educational Community in
Center Colorado
Daniel Davis
The first comprehensive MOOC Manifesto
Room:
118 (NAS)
Tianyi Cheng
Twitter Campaign and Online Resource Mobilization on an Aid
Project
Panel I:
Date:
Time:
Internet Policy, Security, and
April 11, 2015
2:15 – 3:35
Governance
Moderator: Kevin Finneran (National Academy of Science)
Presenter
Paper
Alexander
Effect of Network Congestion and Content Delivery Networks
Gamero-Garrido
on End-User Quality of Service for Residential Broadband
Subscribers in the United States
Michael Specter
Design of a new Certificate Authority Architecture and
Exploration of the Economic and Policy Considerations of a
Certificate-Based Security Ecosystem
Cecilia Testart
High-level concerns, aspirations and user values of the
Internet
School
University of South
Carolina
Georgia Institute
of Technology
Syracuse
University
Arizona State
University
School
Virginia Tech
Virginia tech
Georgetown
University
Georgetown
University
Room:
120 (NAS)
School
Massachusetts
Institute of
Technology
Massachusetts
Institute of
Technology
Massachusetts
Institute of
Technology
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Panel J:
Date:
Time:
Technology Failure, Ethics, and
April 11, 2015
3:40 – 4:55
Efficiencies
Moderator: TBD
Presenter
Paper
Daniel P. Miller
Rationalized Creativity: A look beyond the end of the checklist
when technology fails
Zhu Fengqing
Ethical Issues of Nanotechnology in the Workplace
Jordan Hibbs
Real-Time Consumption Technology in Vehicles and Homes
J Stephanie Rose
Communication Efficiencies Utilizing Electromagnetic
Spectrum for Wireless Broadband Services
Room:
114 (NAS)
School
Virginia Tech
Harbin Institute of
Technology
Arizona State
University
Georgetown
University
Panel K:
Date:
Time:
STS Theory and Beyond
April 11, 2015
3:40 – 4:55
Moderator: Barbara Allen (Virginia Tech)
Presenter
Paper
Haider Haider
Bureaucracy, Technology for What?: The Ambiguous Role of
American Federal Agencies
Kristen Koopman
STS, SF, and Scientization: Genre and Discipline Demarcation
Guilherme
Cognitive Institutions and the Realism-Relativism Dichotomy
Sanches de
Oliveira
Gennady Belyakov Research Informing Public Policy: What To Do to Have an
Impact
Room:
118 (NAS)
Panel L:
Date:
Time:
Divisions Innovation, and Politics of
April 11, 2015
3:40 – 4:55
Emerging Technologies.
Moderator: TBD
Presenter
Paper
Sophia BorroniGender Digital Divide
Bird
Hsin Fei Tu
The Emergence of Innovation Network in China
Room:
120 (NAS)
Nikolai Joseph,
Trent Schindler,
Tom Chinick, and
Jordan Sotudeh
Kuan-Hung Lo
Space Policy
A Gene War: Taiwan/China, Identities and the Politics of Gene
Research
School
Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech
University of
Cincinnati
Georgia Institute
of Technology
School
Michigan State
University
University of
Massachusetts,
Amherst
George
Washington
University
Virginia Tech
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Panel M:
Posters
Presenter
Caroline Gustafson
Alana O’Mara
Aelxis Carlsson
Brian Batayeh
Date:
Time:
April 11, 2015
12:00 – 1:00
Poster
The Gendered History Of Nursing and The Effects On The
Advent Of American End-of-Life Care
Sustainability in the United States Corn Industry: Challenges
and Approaches
Mapping Environmental Health Perceptions
Socially Responsible Innovation in United States Health Care
Brook LaBrance,
Katrina Shah, and
Abigail Howell
Nanotechnology in (and of) the body
Bridget Mason
The futures of drones: How are engineers inscribing morality
into autonomous robots?
Parents, peers, and media perceptions: Influences on Girls in
STEM Education
Appropriating Construction Technologies for Disaster
Recovery Housing
Lauren Brown
Constance Tan
Room:
TBD
School
Vassar College
Michigan State
University
Drexel University
Michigan State
University
University of
Virginia, University
of Virginia, and
Arizona State
University
University of
Virginia
University of
Virginia
University of
Virginia
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