Conversations
in Science
A
Series for K-12 Educators
A program conceived and organized by the Wisconsin Initiative for Science Literacy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with the collaboration of the Madison Metropolitan School District and the Edgewood Sonderegger Science Center.
October 9, 2008
“Self-Organization
- Nature’s Intelligent Design”
Prof. Clint Sprott, Dept of Physics
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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
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January 8, 2009
“Building the
Next Generation of Biofuels”
Prof. Tim Donohue, Great Lakes Bioenergy Resource Center
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February 12, 2009
“Burning Questions
About Forest Fires in the West”
Prof. Monica Turner, Dept of Zoology
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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
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April 2, 2009
“Greenhouse
Gas Emissions and Atmospheric Photochemistry”
Prof. Frank Keutch, Dept of Chemistry
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