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Small World Initiative

Wisconsin teachers converge on Madison in search of antibiotics

By ppointer January 16, 2018 August 8, 2018

Small World Initiative hosts first Wisconsin-based instructor training.

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Illuminating Discovery

By ppointer August 30, 2017 September 4, 2017

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Tiny Earth

By ppointer August 24, 2017 June 20, 2018

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Illuminating Discovery Blog is now live!

By ppointer August 24, 2017 December 22, 2017 0

We can’t wait to dialogue with you!

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Catalysts for Science Policy (CASP)

By ppointer August 22, 2017 September 4, 2017

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Science Bootcamp for Hollywood

By ppointer August 21, 2017 September 4, 2017

Science Bootcamp for Hollywood is an immersive, active experience to enable TV and movie writers to experience the culture, people, activities, and substance of science. The bootcamp will encourage more accurate, diverse, and positive portraits of science and scientists that will inspire a new generation of scientists.

Crossroads of Ideas September 25, 2018 at 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm H.F. DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building The Future of the Great Lakes. Jim Hurley, director of the University of Wisconsin Aquatic Sciences Center (UW Sea Grant and UW Water Resources Institutes), discusses the latest research on aquatic invasive species, shipwrecks, water quality and coastal storms. Plus, get your hands wet with interactive experiments and trivia. CONTACT: 316-4382, towncenter@warf.org URL: http://discovery.wisc.edu/crossroads
Wednesday Nite @ the Lab September 26, 2018 at 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm 1111 Genetics-Biotechnology Center Building "Insect Transmission of Viruses of Plants and of Humans" by Tom German. While there are significant differences in viral infections of plant and animal hosts and in the relationships between the viruses and their vectors, there are numerous and important parallels. Insect-plant virus associations will be focus of this talk, but analogies and comparisons with…
20 Years of Stem Cells: What we know and what we have yet to learn September 29, 2018 at 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm One Alumni Place, 650 N. Lake St. (enter through Alumni Park) Cap Times Idea Fest. Explore how predictions of the “stem cell revolution” have played out in this Wisconsin Alumni Association panel discussion with William Murphy, the Harvey D. Spangler Professor of Biomedical Engineering, professor of orthopedics and rehabilitation, and director of the Forward BIO Institute; and Norman Fost, professor emeritus of pediatrics and bioethics. Moderated…