Grad Student Awarded Prestigious NSF Fellowship

Political Science Graduate Student David Weaver has received an NSF-funded fellowship for the 2006-2007 academic year, to be administered through the new UCSB Center for Nanotechnology in Society. David will be working on media framing processes and the role of traditional media, new media, and advocacy networks in mobilizing collective action globally.

The Center for Nantechnology was funded by UCSB's largest-ever grant in the the Social Sciences, a $5 million award from the National Science Foundation to study social and Political impacts of emerging technolgy at the nano-scale. The award funds five full graduate fellowships in the Social Sciences and Humanities, along with four partial fellowships for students in Engineering and the Physical & Life Sciences.

As a fellowship winner, David will receive office space and computing equipment in the new Center, and will work with his advisor, Bruce Bimber, along with other university faculty and fellowship award winners.