Project ID Assignment: ED-4. Synergistic/Integrative Center Activities
Hilary Godwin (UCLA), Catherine Nameth (UCLA)
Abstract. To promote collaboration, cross-fertilization, and interdisciplinary partnerships across the UCCEIN and with other research partners, Education/Outreach is a mechanism for support for designing
and facilitating face-to-face and web-based meetings.
The Center co-hosts a joint annual international meeting with CEINT, the International Conference on
the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (ICEIN). ICEIN provides a public forum for scientists,
researchers, government, and industry to discuss research, societal implications, and risk perceptions of
the environmental implications of nanotechnology. In 2011, CEIN contributed six invited talks by faculty
and staff, seven invited talks by graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, and sixteen posters.
Education/Outreach coordinates iterative meetings for core activities, thematic groups, and
committees, by providing administrative support (teleconference and room scheduling) and by
providing access, and real-time support, to Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate), a web-based
meeting space. For example, in Year Three, Education/Outreach ensured that monthly meetings for the
Protocols Working Group and the High Throughput Working Group were broadcast on Elluminate and
archived on the Center Data Management (CDM) system. Additionally, the Center’s internal seminars,
such as Arturo Keller’s June 14 seminar from UCSB, were broadcast live and are archived on the CDM.
To promote cross-fertilization across UC-CEIN, Education/Outreach facilitates the annual Executive
Committee retreat and the annual Center-wide retreat.
The Center co-sponsors speakers with UCLA’s CNSI (California NanoSystems Institute) for the CNSI’s
Seminar Series, thus ensuring that Center research is disseminated to a broader scientific audience. In
Year Three, the UC-CEIN was a cosponsor for five speakers, including Paul Schulte (NIOSH), Piotr
Grodzinski (NCI), and Mark Hersam (Northwestern).
In the coming year, due to the refunding process, ICEIN will not be held. However, Education/Outreach
will continue to provide administrative and technical support for core activities, thematic groups, and
for the Center’s committees, and Education/Outreach will plan and coordinate the annual Executive
Committee retreat and the annual Center-wide retreat in 2012. Additionally, the Center will continue to
partner with the CNSI on its seminar series, and it has scheduled Hilary Godwin to speak in September
2011 and Jeffery Steevens (US Army Corps of Engineers) to present in February 2012.