Conversations
in Science Series
for
K-12 Educators
A partnership between The Wisconsin Initiative for Science Literacy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison The Madison Metropolitan School District & The Edgewood Sonderegger Science Center
October 9, 2008
“Self-Organization - Nature’s Intelligent
Design”
Prof. Clint Sprott, Dept of Physics
November 6, 2008
“Biology of Sleep”
Prof. Ruth Benca, UW Psychiatric Institute & Clinics
December 11, 2008
“Babies, Testosterone, and Type 2 Diabetes
and Infertility”
Prof. David Abbott, Dept of Ob/Gyn & National Primate Research
Center
January 8, 2009
“Building the Next Generation of Biofuels”
Prof. Tim Donohue, Great Lakes Bioenergy Resource Center
February 12, 2009
“Burning Questions About Forest Fires
in the West”
Prof. Monica Turner, Dept of Zoology
March 12, 2009
“Thoracoscopic and Robotic Thoracic Surgery
at UW: Technically More Difficult, but Easier for the Patient”
Prof. Tracey Weigel, Chief, Thoracic Surgery, UW Hospitals
April 2, 2009
“Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Atmospheric
Photochemistry”
Prof. Frank Keutch, Dept of Chemistry