Size Matters
Thu, May 3rd, 2007
No, not in the way you think, you dirty minded person.
I received some great news yesterday. I got a contract to co-edit the book on the social and environmental impacts of nanotechnology that I proposed back in December, titled Size Matters: Nanotechnology, Social Change, and the Environment. We’ll be publishing with Rowman and Littlefield, an extremely well-respected academic publisher. Fortunately, the real work on this book won’t begin until I’ve finished my current manuscript, but it does presage another busy year ahead — but it is a good busy. This is a book which I hope will make a vital contribution to our understanding of the potential social and environmental impacts of these emerging technologies which are sure to become a central part of our lives in the next several decades.
On top of all of that, this is a good addition for my forthcoming tenure review, which begins in August. This should solidify my case, which I think was already decent to begin with.
# Comment by Daron Dierkes on Fri, May 4th, 2007 at 4:34 am:
Bob,
There’s an absurd video on CNN that I know will get your blood pressure up. Here’s a more extensive explaination,
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2007/05/02/0503metvegan.html
# Comment by Alli on Fri, May 4th, 2007 at 7:21 am:
Hooray!!!! Congratulations!
# Comment by Steve on Fri, May 4th, 2007 at 7:57 am:
Bob,
That’s so fucking awesome! Good luck with everything!
And raise hell if they give you any trouble with the tenure review. As I’m sure you know, small private universities in the middle of nowhere like to try to fuck over leftist professors.
Steve
# Comment by Max on Fri, May 4th, 2007 at 1:24 pm:
I’m excited. I enjoyed reading the nanotech paper you presented some time last year.
# Comment by Gymmie on Fri, May 4th, 2007 at 11:44 pm:
That’s awesome! Congratulations!
# Comment by Bob Torres on Sat, May 5th, 2007 at 2:08 pm:
Thanks, everyone! I’m stoked.
# Comment by Ariix on Sat, May 5th, 2007 at 7:59 pm:
Wow, congrats Bob!!