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July 30, 2006
Dr. Cyrus Mody, Program Manager for Nanotechnology and Innovation Studies in the Center for Contemporary History and Policy at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, 7-26-06
Dr. Cyrus Mody is the Program Manager for Nanotechnology and Innovation Studies in the Center for Contemporary History and Policy at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia, PA. His knowledge of nanomaterials is grounded in an A.B. in mechanical and materials engineering from Harvard University. His current research on the history of nanotechnology and corporate–academic relations in American science is an extension of his Ph.D. dissertation in Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University. He has published ethnographic and historical studies of nanotechnology, science pedagogy, and the commercialization of academic research in a variety of journals and edited volumes. His research has been sponsored at various times by the National Bureau of Economic Research, the National Science Foundation, the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at the University of California at Santa Barbara, the American Institute of Physics, the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
The Center for Contemporary History and Policy at the Chemical Heritage Foundation carries out projects at the interface of contemporary chemical and molecular sciences and technologies, industry, and science policy. The center is built on the core principle that history and policy are domains that should inform one another. The center is structured around a group of programs that draw upon diverse historical and contemporary source materials to provide knowledge and advice to stakeholders from industry, academia, government, and citizen groups. The center’s programs record, characterize, and analyze the economic, health, and environmental changes associated with advances in science, technology, and medicine.
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