Senate Hearing on The National Nanotechnology Investment: Manufacturing, Commercialization and Job Creation”

The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Science and Space will be holding a hearing at 10AM on Thursday July 14, "The National Nanotechnology Investment: Manufacturing, Commercialization and Job Creation",

As the Commerce Committee considers a reauthorization of the National Nanotechnology Initiative, the hearing will examine the potential of nanotechnology, federal initiatives to coordinate research investments, barriers to commercialization, possible environmental and health risks, and steps Congress can take to improve the return on federal nanotechnology investments.

Appearing before the Subcommittee are the following witnesses:

• Dr. Chad A. Mirkin
  Director, International Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University
  Member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

• Dr. Charles (Chuck) H. Romine
  Acting Associate Director, Laboratory Programs, and Principal Deputy, Office of the Director
  National Institute of Standards and Technology

• Dr. Diandra Leslie-Pelecky
  Director, West Virginia Nano Initiative
  Professor of Physics, West Virginia University

• Dr. Thomas O’Neal
  Associate Vice President for Research and Commercialization, University of Central Florida
  Executive Director, University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program

• Dr. George L. McLendon
  Howard R. Hughes Provost and Professor of Chemistry
  Rice University

 

The hearing will also be webcast on the Committee’s website. The witnesses prepared statements will be posted to the Subcommittee’s site the day of the hearing.