CNS-ASU has a full array of inter-related programs to:

* Conduct fundamental and problem-oriented research on the societal implications of nanotechnologies;

* Expand – through undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral training – the community of scholars with the skills to create new insight into these societal dimensions of NSE;

* Engage publics, policy makers, business leaders, and NSE researchers in dialogues about the goals and implications of NSE, and use this process to build a network committed to making NSE socially beneficial and addressing NSE-related societal conflicts; and

* Build partnerships with NSE laboratories to introduce greater reflexiveness in the R&D process, so that problems may be addressed as ideas are being generated, evaluated, and developed, rather than after products enter society and the marketplace.