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November 2011

Risk Science Unplugged: Risk Rage Transcript

November 29, 2011

Earlier this month, the Risk Science Center had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Craig Cormick (who wrote or most recent guest blog on Issues in Public Engagement on Nanotechnology) for our Risk Science Unplugged series, which focuses on engaging leading experts in conversation on key issues that have evolved at the intersection between risk and [...]

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About Pepper Spray

November 21, 2011

A guest blog by Pulitzer Prize winning science writer Deborah Blum. As images and videos of UC Davis students calmly being “pacified” with pepper spray spread across the internet this weekend and outrage grew over the apparent indiscriminate use of this chemical agent, I wanted to write something about the risks of associated with exposure [...]

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Crowdsourced symptom maps, preventative or paranoia inducing?

November 20, 2011

One of my favorite things about working for the Risk Science Center is that I get to spend time browsing the Internet looking for new innovations within the overlap between science and communication.  When science and social media interact, some pretty amazing things can happen. For example, USGS and Twitter seem to be teaming up [...]

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Thinking differently about Risk, Innovation and Sustainability – David Zaruk, September 21, 2011

November 10, 2011

A key focus of the Risk Science Symposium this past September was examining at the concepts and fields of risk, innovation and sustainability.  In our quest to consider them from as many view points as possible, we had the pleasure of having David Zaruk, who writes a blog called The Risk Monger, present a keynote [...]

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The Risk Science Center welcomes a new team member

November 8, 2011

Please join us in welcoming Shara Evans to the Risk Science Center Team.    Shara will generate web content, work on the blog and expand the Center’s social media presence. Shara is a first year Master’s of Public Health student in the Department of Epidemiology at UMSPH. She has a Masters in Health Policy and Demography from the [...]

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Exposure to silver nanoparticles may be more common than we thought

November 7, 2011

The past few years has seen an explosion of interest in silver nanoparticles. Along with a plethora of products using the particles to imbue antimicrobial properties on everything from socks to toothpaste, nanometer scale silver particles have been under intense scrutiny from researchers and policy makers concerned that they present an emerging health and environmental [...]

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Opening Comments Day 2 – David Munson, September 21,2011

November 4, 2011

Day two of last month’s 2011 Risk Science Symposium opened with a brilliant talk  by David Munson, Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering here at the University of Michigan College of Engineering, on the role of Universities in innovation and sustainability. Below is the transcript of his remarks David Munson. Opening Comments – Day 2. [...]

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