http://icon.rice.edu/ ICON News en-us Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:49:03 GMT http://icon.rice.edu/icon_rss.cfm Web Services icon@rice.edu webserv@rice.edu http://icon.rice.edu/details.cfm?NID=1685 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT When we were setting up the rating system at the Virtual Journal of Nano-EHS there was much hand-wringing about what such a system would do to the credibility of our organization and to academic discourse in general. http://icon.rice.edu/details.cfm?NID=1685 http://icon.rice.edu/details.cfm?NID=1563 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT Whilst many celebrate the amazing properties these novel materials [nanoparticles] can bring to technological applications, others fear we may be opening a modern Pandora's box. When the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN) at Rice University was funded in 2001, there was almost no scientific literature on the potential environmental, health and safety risks (EHS) of engineered nanoparticles. http://icon.rice.edu/details.cfm?NID=1563