Call for application for the Twelfth Annual Winter School on Emerging Technologies: Accelerating Impactful Scholarship.

The Twelfth Annual Winter School on Emerging Technologies: Accelerating Impactful Scholarship is supported by National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure and takes place from January 3-10, 2025 at Saguaro Lake Ranch in Mesa, Arizona.

The Winter School provides junior scholars and scientists an introduction to and practical experience with methods and theory for better understanding the social dimensions of emerging technologies. The coming event will be focused on the broad notion of impact with an aim to explore ways for participants to increase and diversify the impact of their work. The National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure Coordinating Office is now supporting the winter school, which is run by the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University where our colleague David Guston is Associate Vice Provost for Discovery, Engagement and Outcomes.

Applicants should be advanced graduate students or recent PhDs (post-doc or untenured faculty within three years of completing a PhD at time of application) with an expressed interest in studying emerging technologies such as nanotechnology, robotics, synthetic biology, geoengineering, artificial intelligence, etc. Applicants may come from any discipline and must be demonstrably proficient in English.

The program fees for accepted students will be covered by the NNCI including seven nights at Saguaro Lake Ranch, meals and local transportation from Tempe, Arizona. Participants will be responsible for their own travel to Tempe, Arizona and should arrive before 2:00 pm on January 3rd.

To Apply and for further information visit the School for the Future of Innovation in Society website.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS MONDAY OCTOBER 7th, 2024