Grants
Science Fiction in the Lives of Scientists and Engineers
National Science Foundation, $15,000. SES-0639897, Program in Social Studies of Science, Engineering, and Technology, "SGER: Past Futures and Technoscientific Innovation: Science Fiction in the Lives of Scientists and Engineers," PI: K.R. Fleischmann, August 15, 2006-July 31, 2008.
This project focuses on the influence of childhood exposure to mass media in general and science fiction in particular on the career choices and research trajectories of scientists and engineers.