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The Good, the Bad, and the Tiny: Is Nanotechnology the Next Big Thing or the Next Big Nightmare?

The Liu Institute's Milind Kandlikar says research is moving toward a better understanding of how nanoparticles can affect human health and the environment, but scientists just don’t know what properties – shape, size, chemical composition or coatings – might make nanoparticles and nanowaste hazardous. More...

Diagram by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotechnology

 

Peace and Security
A panel discussion on the conflict and peace processes in Colombia and Turkey.
May 10, 2013
The TSAS Summer Academy is a week-long program for graduate, post-doctoral students and junior policy makers in government, running July 21st – July 26th, 2013 at the Liu Institute for Global Iss...
July 21, 2013
Environment
An excerpt from Peter Dauvergne and Jane Lister's book, Eco-Business, is published in The World Financial Review.
May 29, 2013
Presented by Professor Jolene Lin, Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong.
April 16, 2013
Justice
A lecture by Dr. James Waller, Cohen Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Keene State College, New Hampshire.
May 01, 2013
Artist, Writer and Global Agitator Anida Yoeu Ali will present and discuss her works and ideas about contemporary justice and its residual effects on the Cambodian American experience.
April 18, 2013
Development
Presented by Dr. Masahiro Kawai, Dean of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI).
June 03, 2013

April 17, 2013
Health
Shafik Dharamsi and Jerry Spiegel published an article in Springer about global health research ethics.
April 19, 2013
Presented by Dr. Mira Ziolo, Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies Program.
January 15, 2013
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