New Nanotechnology Television Series Does 'Sweat the Small Stuff'

WASHINGTON, March 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Project on Emerging
Nanotechnologies (PEN) and National Science Foundation (NSF) will host the
premiere event for the television series "Nanotechnology: Power of Small" on
Wednesday, April 2, from 6:15-7:00 EST. The event will include remarks by U.S.
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), a co-chair of the Congressional Nanotechnology
Caucus, PEN chief science advisor Andrew Maynard and NSF director Arden
Bement.

The series' three programs explore critical questions about nanotechnology's
potential impact on privacy, the environment and human health: Will
nanotechnology make you safer, or will it be used to track your every move?
Will nanotechnology keep you young, and what happens if you live to be 150?
Will nanotechnology help clean up the earth, or will it be the next asbestos?

"Nanotechnology: Power of Small" is the first major television series to look
at the implications of advances in nanotechnology --- the ability to measure,
see, manipulate and manufacture materials that are usually between one and 100
nanometers in size. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter; a human hair is
roughly 100,000 nanometers wide. More than $60 billion in products
incorporating nanotechnology were sold globally in 2007. By 2014, Lux Research
estimates this figure will grow to $2.6 trillion.

The series begins airing on local public broadcasting stations in April 2008
(see http://www.powerofsmall.org). It is funded by NSF and the presenting
station and grantee for the series is Oregon Public Broadcasting. The series
is a "Fred Friendly Seminars" presentation with award-winning National Public
Radio correspondent John Hockenberry as host.

To view the event via Webcast, or watch the archived video at a later date,
visit: http://www.nanotechproject.org/events/archive/power_of_small/.

The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies is an initiative launched by the
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and The Pew Charitable Trusts
in 2005. It is dedicated to helping business, government and the public
anticipate and manage possible health and environmental implications of
nanotechnology. For more information about the project, log on to
www.nanotechproject.org.

SOURCE The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies

Colin Finan of the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, +1-202-691-4321,
colin.finan@wilsoncenter.org