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The nanotech future: a conversation with Mihail Roco
Date:10/11/2007

ored and co-authored numerous articles, publications and books.

Dr. Roco will receive the National Materials Advancement Award from the Federation of Materials Societies at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on December 5, 2007.

He is Corresponding Member of the Swiss Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineering, Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Roco initiated work on converging technologies, and on societal implications of nanotechnology since the beginning of the NNI.

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What:The Nanotech Future: A Conversation with Mihail Roco

Who:Mihail C. Roco, Senior Advisor for Nanotechnology, National Science Foundation
Robert F. Service, Correspondent, Science, Interviewer
David Rejeski, Director, Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, Moderator

When:Friday, November 9th, 2007, 12:30 C 1:30 p.m. (Lunch available at noon.)

Where:Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 6th
Floor Board Room, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
20004 (www.wilsoncenter.org/directions)

Media planning to cover the event should contact Sharon McCarter at (202) 691-4016 or sharon.mccarter@wilsoncenter.org.

The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies was launched in 2005 by the Wilson Center and The Pew Charitable Trusts. It is dedicated to helping business, governments, and the public anticipate and manage the possible health and environmental implications of nanotechnology.


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Contact: Sharon McCarter
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