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Previous Speakers and Topics**The Ravenna Science Cafe is presented by Science on Tap*The Queen Anne Science Cafe was presented in partnership with KCTS Public Television, the Pacific Science Center and Science on TapJun7 27, 2026 Rachel Bristol UW Department of Psychology "Talking up and down to others: How we use language to argue about who gets to know what"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
June 29, 2026 Elyssa Kerr Executive Director, Beavers Northwest "Managing Ecosystem Engineers: Beaver Ecology and Coexistence in the Pacific Northwest"
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April 27, 2026 David B. Williams Author, naturalist and tour guide More information on David's writing "Secrets of Seattle Geology"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
March 30, 2026 Jim Davenport DiRAC Institute, UW "Big Data in the Sky: How the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will Change Astronomy"
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February 23, 2026 David Powell R & D manager and co-founder at ProFishent Inc. "To Steel or not to Steel, is Steelhead Aquaculture a Good Idea?"
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January 26, 2026 Phil Swan The Atlantis Project "The Down-to-Earth Benefits of Becoming a Spacefaring Civilization"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
October 27, 2025 Kristie Ebi Professor, Center for Health and the Global Environment, UW "Climate changes health"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
September 29, 2025 Ben Casavant Co-Founder and CEO, Tasso Title: "From Lab to Living Room: How we are bringing diagnostics into your home"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
July 28, 2025 Paul McElhany NOAA, Northwest Fisheries Science Center "Marine carbon dioxide removal: A climate solution (maybe) with ecological risks (probably)"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
June 30, 2025 Trevor Branch School of Aquatic and Fisheries Science, UW School of the Environment "Whales fear orcas, changing their songs, migration and growth"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
April 28, 2025 Morgan Dixon Head of User Experience, Newdays "'Where are my keys?' Using AI to delay symptoms of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
March 31, 2025 Neil King Institute for Protein Design & Dept of Biochemistry, University of Washington "AI for good: using computers to design new protein-based medicines"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
February 24, 2025 Chelsea Mitchell Ecotoxicologist, King County "Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Toxic Tire Pollution and the Impact on Salmon"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
January 27, 2025 David Montgomery Earth and Space Sciences, UW College of the Environment "What your food ate"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
October 28, 2024 Will Peterman Washington Native Bee Society "The Pollinator Underground: Wild Bees in Unnatural Places"
September 30, 2024
Moderator: Thomas Keranen Head Brewer, Elliott Bay Brewing Co. - Burien & Craft Brewing Adjunct Instructor, South Puget Sound Community College Panelists: Chris Engdahl Founder & Chef de Biere, Lantern Brewing Morgan Hazard Quality Manager, Elysian Brewing Co. Josh Waldman Lead Brewer, Cloudburst Brewing Science on Tap's 20th anniversary event: a discussion on the science of brewing beer with experts from the brewing industry in Seattle
Ravenna Science Cafe:
July 29, 2024 Kevin P. Jiang UW Deptartment of Bioengineering "From Hospitals to Homes: How COVID Changed Modern Diagnostics"
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June 24, 2024 Monica Hinckley Conservation Administrator, Woodland Park Zoo "Palm Oil 101: Is your chocolate harming orangutans? How to have your cake and forests too!"
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March 25, 2024 Kim Parsons Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA "Can tiny plastics cause big problems? Detecting microplastics in the feces of endangered killer whales"
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February 26, 2024 Wendy Gibble UW Botanic Gardens, Center for Seed Conservation "The Mighty Potential of the Seed: Building a Conservation Legacy through Seed Banking"
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January 29, 2024 Lexi Maerz UW BioResource Engineering "Embracing Bioplastics: A Sustainable Alternative to Fossil Fuel-Based Plastics"
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September 25, 2023 Dawn P. Noren Research Fishery Biologist, NOAA "Southern Resident Killer Whale Research: where the Rubber Meets the Road for Resource Management"
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July 31, 2023 Nick Touran Nuclear Engineer & Clean Energy Activist "Shipping Nuclear Power out to Sea"
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June 26, 2023 Ashley Vaughan Seattle Children's Hospital Center for Global Infectious Disease Research "Using genetic engineering for the creation of malaria vaccine"
Special event with Climate Science on Tap at Bickerson's Brewery in Ballard:
Wednesday, June 7, 2023 Madeline Ostrander Science Journalist and Author "At Home on an Unruly Planet" Visit Madeline's website for more information on her writing
Ravenna Science Cafe:
March 27, 2023 John R Delaney UW Oceanography "Underwater Volcanoes in Our Solar System"
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February 27, 2023 John Marzluff UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences "What's new in the World of Crows"
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January 30, 2023 Sam Kreling UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences "Seattle urban coyotes: what we can learn & how to live with them"
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October 31, 2022 Sharlene Santana Professor, UW Dept of Biology and Burke Museum "Batty for Halloween: how the only flying mammals took over the night sky"
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September 26, 2022 Morris Johnson Fire Ecologist, US Forest Service "New lessons from Smokey the Bear: creating fire resilient landscapes"
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July 25, 2022 Jason Goldman Infectious Diseases Physician, Swedish Medical Center "The Houseguest Who Won't Leave: Updates on Long COVID"
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June 27, 2022 Miles Currie Virtual Planetary Laboratory, University of Washington "Searching for Life in a Pixel: The Challenge of Exoplanet Astrobiology"
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March 28, 2022 Daniel Liebling Google Research "The Babel fish: from Hitchhiker's Guide to Reality -- How Computers Translate Human Language" Speaker abstract and bio
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February 28, 2022 Milton Tam Puget Sound Mycological Society "The Fungus Among Us: Fungi, Mushrooms, and their Simple Home Cultivation"
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October 25, 2021 Edward Kolodziej Civil and Environmental Engineering, UW "Car Tires, Fish, and Waters"
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September 27, 2021 Linda Venczel and Troy Leader Global Health Security, PATH "From bats to wastewater: strengthening our global warning systems to improve detection of emerging zoonotic pathogens like COVID-19"
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Feb 24th 2020 Hosted by Valerie Bentivegna Geeky Comedy Seattle Science Comedy Showcase: the humorous side of research
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January 27, 2020 Ali Arjomand Founder - Modulla Health "Diet wars: Tribes and heretics on my plate. Translating nutrition science to individual health and well-being"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
Oct 28th 2019 Clare Meeker Children's Book Author "Growing Up Gorilla: What Happened When a New Mother Walked Away From Her Baby" for more about the author and her new book "Growing up Gorilla"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
Sep 30th 2019 James Girton Principal Oceanographer and Affiliate Assistant Professor, Applied Physics Laboratory, UW "Drifting and gliding into the unknown: An autonomous exploration under Antarctica's floating ice shelves"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
Aug 26th 2019 Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger Retired Astronaut, NASA and Geologist, Geosyntec Consultants "From Rocks to Rockets"
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Jul 29th 2019 Phil Swan Aquaring Energy "Quenching Humanity's Thirst for 24/7 Clean Energy"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
Jun 24th 2019 John Crocker Family Physician and Author "My Adventures Among Wild Chimpanzees: Lessons from our Closest Relatives"
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Apr 29th 2019 Sean Gibbons Assistant Professor, Institute for Systems Biology "A gut feeling: how microbiome impacts human health"
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Mar 25th 2019 Jessica Cross Oceanographer, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) "Ocean Acidification in Alaska: Ecosystems and Economies"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
Feb 25th 2019 Ryan Kelly School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, University of Washington "Emerging Science at the Intersection of Ecology, Genetics and Policy"
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Nov 26 2018 Jeff Duda USGS "Floodplains of dreams in the Elwha River: if you remove it, will they come?"
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Oct 29th 2018 Jill Johnsen Bloodworks Northwest, Research Institute "Blood, sweat, and tears: genetics of blood type"
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Sept 24th 2018 Lea Starita UW Department of Genomic Sciences; Brotman Baty Institute "Using CRISPR to Advance Precision Medicine"
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Aug 27th 2018 Daniel Ratner Dept. of Bioengineering, University of Washington "Engineering Medicine with Sugar and Light "
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Jul 30th 2018 Sarah Stroup Associate Professor of Classics, University of Washington "Robots, Space Exploration, Death Rays, Brain Surgery, and Nanotechnology: STEM(M) in the Ancient World"
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Jun 25th 2018 Abhi Nath UW Department of Medicinal Chemistry Alzheimer's Research: Watching Proteins Misbehave - One Molecule at a Time!"
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Apr 30th 2018 Marsha Wheeler Beekeeper and Postdoc, University of Washington "Growing up in the hive: stories of honey bee aging and behavior"
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Mar 26th 2018 Miklos Guttman UW Department of Medicinal Chemistry "The Difficulties of Developing An Effective HIV Vaccine"
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Feb 26th 2018 Fran Solomon Adjunct Professor, Western Washington University, Huxley College of the Environment on the Peninsulas "Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals in Personal Care Products: Health Impacts and How to Reduce Exposures"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
Jan 29th 2018 Carl Ostberg Research Fish Biologist, USGS "Fishing for environmental DNA (eDNA): a new frontier for detecting and monitoring aquatic species"
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Nov 27th 2017 Katherine Cook Creative Director, Math for Love "The Math Education Revolution"
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Oct 30th 2017 Mouse Reusch Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN) at the University of Washington "Earthquake Early Warning: Letting ya know before we rock and roll!"
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Sept 25th 2017 Rachel Pepper William D. and Flora McCormick Chair in Biophysics, University of Puget Sound "Water quality enhancement, bioremediation, and how we can protect our water"
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August 28th 2017 Joel Thornton Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, UW "From Ship Exhaust to Pine Forests: Weather and Climate Effects of Atmospheric Nano-particles"
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July 31st 2017 Brian Whiting Environmental Studies Program, Seattle University "Mapping the impact of racism in Seattle: Have we moved past it?"
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June 26th 2017 Luke Timmerman Biotech Journalist and Author "Hood: Trailblazer of the Genomics Age"
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April 24th 2017 Rachel White University of Washington's Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean "Going to Extremes: Is it Climate Change or Just Bad Weather"
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March 27th 2017 Lessana Lahner Executive Director and Veterinarian, Sealife Response, Rehab, and Research "Wet Wildlife Medicine: The Science and Rehabilitation of Marine Animals in the Salish Sea"
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February 27th 2017 Steven de Jesus-Carrion Benaroya Research Institute "We Are at War: New Promising Target to Help Us Win the War Against Colorectal Cancer"
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January 30th 2017 Philip Swan The Atlantis Project "Space Infrastructure: Ferries are to Bridges as Rockets are to what?"
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November 28th 2016 James Winton Chief, Fish Health Section, USGS Western Fisheries Research Center "Now It's the Fish - Human Drivers of Infectious Disease in the Aquatic World"
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October 31st 2016 John Marzluff School of Envrionmental and Forest Sciences, UW "A Flying Murder: Get to Know your Crows"
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September 26th 2016 SoT's 12th Anniversary Event A science story slam -- 6 storytellers speaking on the subject of "science" featuring: Bryan Callahan, Margaret Friedman, Marissa Konstadt, Gretchen Meller, Jeffrey Reid, and Angela Thyer
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August 29th 2016 Todd Cloutier US Navy, retired "Nuclear Power and Climate Change
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July 25th 2016 Steve Olson Freelance Writer "The Untold Story of Mt. St Helen's" Find a review of the book here
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June 27th 2016, 7pm Tony Marfin Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine Projects Director, PATH "Zika Virus, Introduction of Yet Another Mosquito-Borne Virus to the Americas"
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April 25th 2016 M. Rebecca O'Connor Assistant Professor, Family and Child Nursing, University of Washington School of Nursing "Who's Missing in Research and Why It Matters: low research participation among vulnerable populations leads to health inequities and further disparities"
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March 28th 2016 Zachary Brown Stanford University and Inian Island Institute "A Trip North: Researching Arctic Climate and Working for Change in Alaska"
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February 29th 2016 David Sommerfeld Senior Lecturer at the University of Washington, Bothell "The mystery of the tiger tooth necklace: the role of chemistry in anthropology"
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January 25th 2016 Steven Gilbert Institute of Neurotoxicology & Neurological Disorders "Touching the brain, stimulating nerves in Parkinson's Disease "
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November 30th 2015 Joshua J. Lawler Denman Professor of Sustainable Resource Sciences, UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences "Will animals be able to keep pace with climate change?" Presented in conjunction with NOVA Science Now - Making North America
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October 26th 2015, 7pm Eashwar Thiagarajan Principal Electrical Design Engineer, Cypress Semiconductor "Design Engineering: Translating Real World Analog Inputs to Digital Codes - an Introduction"
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September 28th 2015 Stephanie Gianarelli & Lora Shahine Acupuncture NW and Pacific NW Fertility and IVF Specialists "Planting the Seeds of Pregnancy: Fertility Methods from Eastern and Western Medicine" For more information on their book
Ravenna Science Cafe:
August 31st 2015 Janice Connolly Palliative Care Medical Director, Chief of Staff Elect, Swedish Medical Center "Transforming Healthcare with Palliative Care: What is it and who is it good for?"
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July 27th 2015 Laura Taylor UW Departmentment of Medicine, Gerontology Division "ALS and Alzheimer's: two different diseases, one common mechanism of progression"
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June 29th 2015 Ben Waters UW Department of Electrical Engineering and CEO of WiBotic Inc. "Adaptive Wireless Power for Hearts and Robots"
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April 27th 2015 Sabrina Kamran UW Department of Pharmacology "Prescription Addiction: Perspective into the Addiction of Legal and Illegal Drug Use"
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March 30th 2015 Ingrid Swanson Pultz Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington "Celiac Disease and Gluten Intolerance: The Myths, The Reality, and Hope for a Treatment"
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February 26th 2015, 7pm Tim Dardis Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington "A pile of problems in marine construction: Ecological impacts of pile driving and sound solutions"
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January 26th 2015, 7PM Christine McKinley Author and Senior Construction Project Manager at Providence Health "Physics for Rock Stars: a guided tour of the physical world in everyday life"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
October 27th 2014 Sally James Science and Medical Writer "Big power in small words: Using cartoon #upgoer language" Sally James' website
Ravenna Science Cafe: Science on Tap 10th Anniversary Month Monday, Sept 8th at 7pm: "History of Science Cafes" - Gretchen Meller Monday, Sept 15th at 7pm: "A Most Complex Epidemic: the 2014 Ebola Outbreak" - Ann Marie Kimball Monday, Sept 22th at 7pm: Science Pub Trivia Night with special SoT prizes Monday, Sept 29th at 7pm: "Directions to the Nearest Alien Earth-Sized Planet: Walk from the Space Needle to Pike Place Market" - Sarah Ballard
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July 28th 2014 Fabio Parmeggiani UW Molecular Engineering and Sciences "The art of protein masonry: engineering proteins as building blocks for materials, diagnostics and therapeutics"
Ravenna Science Cafe: June 30th 2014 John Incardona Research Toxicologist, Northwest Fisheries Science Center "The impact of coal dust in marine and land environments"
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April 28th 2014 Sara Jane Webb UW Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Seattle Children's Research Institute "Do girls get autism? Sex differences in autism prevalence, genetics, clinical presentation"
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March 31st 2014 Daniel Zak Seattle BioMed Principal Scientist "To be TB or not to be TB?" Presented in conjunction with Seattle Biomed's World TB Day Program
Ravenna Science Cafe: February 24th 2014 Jonathan J. Calede University of Washington Department of Biology and Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture "Fossils of the Pacific Northwest: Evidence of mammal evolution"
Ravenna Science Cafe: January 27th 2014 Jaki (Jacqueline) Braggin University of Washington/Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center "Drifting and Shifting: How the Influenza Virus Keeps Us Guessing"
Ravenna Science Cafe: October 28th 2013 Patrick Stayton Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington "Engineering Smart Molecules for Smarter Biotechnologies: New Therapeutics and Diagnostics from Smart Materials"
Ravenna Science Cafe: September 30th 2013 Alexis Kaushansky Seattle BioMed "New approaches to eliminating malaria: clues from cancer"
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August 26th 2013 Eric Agol Associate Professor of Astronomy, University of Washington "How to find an Earth-like planet"
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July 29th 2013 Alan Diercks Seattle Biomedical Research Institute "Pandemic and Potentially Pandemic Influenza Viruses"
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June 24th 2013 Rachael Tatman Department of Linguistics, University of Washington "Hearing voices: How we hear and understand speech"
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April 29th 2013 Scott Emerson Professor of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Washington Clinical Trials - "Finding New Treatments for Old (and New) Diseases by Experimenting on Humans: Who (and What) Should We Trust?"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
March 25th 2013 Rika Anderson Oceanography Department and Astrobiology Program at the University of Washington "Hydrothermal Vents - Wonders of the Deep: Life in the Ocean's Darkest Corners"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
February 25th 2013 Jonathan Himmelfarb Director, Kidney Research Institute/University of Washington "Kidney on a Chip: the new Science of Drug Discovery"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
January 28th 2013 Trevor Branch Assistant Professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington "How many fish can we catch?"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
November 26th 2012 Ray Hilborn Professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington "The environmental cost of dinner: eating fish and alternatives"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
October 29th 2012 Cliff Mass University of Washington Professor of Atmospheric Sciences "Why Weather Forecasts are Getting Better"
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September 24th 2012 Karl Koscher Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington "Computer Security and the Modern Car"
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August 27th 2012 Sara Shores University of Washington Camp Arborist "The Fungus among us: What's up with Dutch Elm Disease?"
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July 30th 2012 Jay Shendure University of Washington, Department of Genome Sciences "Not your mother's genome: Non-invasive whole genome sequencing of a human fetus"
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June 25th 2012 Matt Shortridge and Raychelle Burks University of Washington, Depts of Biochemitry and Chemistry "Getting better with age: exploring the chemistry of barreling whiskey"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
April 30th 2012 Linda Zuckerman President, ProFibrix, Inc. ProFibrix: A Leader in Bioactive Products to Stop Bleeding
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March 26th 2012 David Sherman Tuberculosis Program Lead, Seattle BioMed "Totally Tenacious Tuberculosis: emerging evidence about totally drug resistant TB and what it means for global health" Presented in conjunction with Seattle Biomed's World TB Day Program
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February 27th 2012 Chris Linder Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution & International League of Conservation Photographers Science on Ice: how scientists survive and thrive in the polar regions More information, and this speaker's book, can be found here
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January 30th 2012 Eric Legally Founder, Legally Consulting "Microfluidics: from Jell-o to diagnosing disease"
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November 28th 2011 Clinical Veterinarian SNBL USA Drug Safety and Animal Research No safe alternatives
Queen Anne Science Cafe:
November 1st 2011 Jake VanderPlas University of Washington "Gravity: A Lens to the Universe"
Queen Anne Science Cafe:
October 4th 2011 Daniel Burgard University of Puget Sound Department of Chemistry "What's in your tailpipe: why gases are of concern and how they differ with different types of vehicles"
Ravenna Science on Tap:
September 26th 2011 Raychelle Burks Research Associate, UW Department of Chemistry "Using chemistry to survive the zombie apocalypse"
Queen Anne Science Cafe:
September 6th 2011 Christof Koch Chief Scientific Officer, Allen Institute for Brain Science "The Science of Consciousness"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
August 29th 2011 Theresa Britschgi Seattle BioMed Bioquest Program Visualizing Global Health with Dramatic Data
Queen Anne Science Cafe:
August 2nd 2011 Julia Parrish Associate Director, Aquatic & Fisheries Sciences, UW COASSTal Citizen Science
Ravenna Science Cafe:
July 25th 2011 Dana L. Miller UW Department of Biochemistry "Genes and the environment: How your surrounding influence who you are"
Queen Anne Science Cafe:
July 5th 2011 Charles Finkel Founder and President of The Pike Brewing Company "Louis Pasteur and the Science of Making Beer"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
June 27th, 2011 Samuel R. Browd Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery, UW and Director of the Hydrocephalus Program Seattle Children's Hospital "Disruptive medical innovation: The perfect union of bioengineering and neurosurgery"
Queen Anne Science Cafe:
June 7th 2011 Ashley Vaughan Senior Scientist, Seattle Biomed "Why do we need a malaria vaccine?"
Queen Anne Science Cafe:
May 3rd 2011 Blaise Aguera y Arcas Microsoft "Building a Collective Digital World"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
April 25th 2011 Andy McShea Chief Operating Officer and Chief Scientist, Theo Chocolate "This year in Chocolate: Science and Current Events from the Crazy world of Cocoa"
Queen Anne Science Cafe:
April 5th 2011 Kim Woodrow Department of Bioengineering at the University of Washington "Nanomaterials for HIV prevention"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
March 28th 2011 Dan Ratner UW Dept. of Bioengineering "A Fantastic Voyage into Nanotechnology: There's Still Plenty of Room at the Bottom"
Queen Anne Science Cafe:
March 1st 2011 Thea Cooper Co-author of Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle "The Discovery of Insulin: Lifting the Death Sentence of Diabetes"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
February 28th 2011 Mark Moore Director, Northwest Avalanche and Weather Center "Understanding Avalanches: Every Snowpack Tells a Story"
Queen Anne Science Cafe:
February 1st 2011 Alex B. Berezow Editor of RealClearScience.com "Genetic Modification:an Innovation for Good?"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
January 31st 2011 Stan Fields Departments of Genome Sciences and Medicine, University of Washington; Co-author "Genetic Twists of Fate" "Inside the Genetic Revolution: real-life stories, explaining our personal DNA codes; how a few differences make us unique; and how they influence our appearance, our behavior, and our risk for disease"
Queen Anne Science Cafe:
January 4th 2011 Brian Flinn Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Washington "Make It, Break It, Make It Better: New Materials For Cars And Spacecraft"
Queen Anne Science Cafe:
December 7th 2010 Sarah Gaichas and Chris Harvey National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) "Marine ecosystems science and management from Alaska to Puget Sound"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
November 29th 2010 Tyler D. Robinson Astronomy Department & Astrobiology Program, University of Washington "A Cornucopia of Worlds: Extrasolar Planets and the Search for Life Beyond Earth"
Queen Anne Science Cafe:
October 2nd 2010 Tadayoshi Kohno University of Washington Computer Security Lab "Keeping Technology Secure" Presented in partnership between the Pacific Science Center, KCTS Public Television and Science on Tap
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October 25th 2010 Rachel Mitchell School of Forest Resources, University of Washington "A Global Shop of Horrors: Invasive Plants in an Era of Change"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
October 5th 2010 Brian Atwater USGS and University of Washington Department of Earth & Space Sciences "The Orphan Tsunami of 1700"
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September 27th 2010, 7pm Joshua Bandfield Research Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, UW "A tour of familiar and alien landscapes on Mars: Using spacecraft images to understand the processes that shape the Martian surface"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
September 7th 2010 Stefanie Iverson Cabral University of Washington Department of Medicine "The Tiny Bacterial Pathogen that Packs a lot of Might"
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August 30th 2010 Matt Bachmann U.S. Geological Survey "Climate Change and the Cost of Beer: Why Groundwater Will Dictate Your Bar Tab"
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August 3rd 2010 Steven Gilbert Institute of Neurotoxicology & Neurological Disorders "Oil Dispersants: Our Right to Know"
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July 26th 2010 Monica Lake Capital Projects Manager, Woodland Park Zoo "Building a living exhibit: the new penguin habitat at the Woodland Park Zoo"
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July 6th 2010 Kristin Laidre Research Scientist, University of Washington Polar Science Center "Uncovering the Mysteries of the Narwhal(unicorn whale)"
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June 28th 2010 Arian Smit Institute for Systems Biology "Genomics 101: the first whole genome sequencing of a family, and how it affects future scientific research"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
June 1st 2010 Andy McShea Chief Operating Officer and Head Scientist at Theo Chocolate "Unlock the Secrets of Dark Chocolate"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
May 4th 2010 Clifford Mass Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington "Great windstorms of the Pacific Northwest"
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April 26th 2010 Steve Malone Professor Emeritus, Department of Earth & Space Sciences, UW " "The Puget Sound Magnitude 6.5 earthquake of summer 2010 that no one will feel.""
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April 6th 2010 Brittany Brand Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington "Mt. St. Helens, 30 years after the blast"
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March 29th, 2010 Alan Boyle Author of The Case for Pluto and Science Editor at MSNBC "The Case for Dwarf Planets: Diversity in the Search for Other Worlds."
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March 2nd 2010 Ruanne Barnabas Infectious Diseases Fellow, University of Washington "Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases: Tools for plotting Epidemics"
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February 22nd 2010 Charles Chavkin Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington "How does stress increase your risk of addiction? - a neuroscience perspective" Presented in Conjunction with the Pacific Cascade Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience
Lower Queen Anne Location:
February 2nd 2010 Marcela Ewert School of Oceanography and Astrobiology, University of Washington "Arctic microbes: living in a frozen ocean"
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January 25th 2010 Shawn Domagal-Goldman Virtual Planetary Laboratory; University of Washington - Astronomy Department "Cylons and Smelloscopes: False Positives and False Negatives in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
January 5th 2010, 7:30pm Joshua Bandfield Research Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, UW "Mars - A Tour of Familiar and Alien Landscapes on the Red Planet"
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November 30th 2009 Nitin Baliga Institute for Systems Biology Rewiring Circuits of Life for Bioremediation* and Bioenergy *Bioremediation is any process that uses microorganisms, fungi, green plants or their enzymes to return the natural environment altered by contaminants to its original condition. (from Wikipedia)
Lower Queen Anne Location:
November 3rd 2009 Alice Enevoldsen Planetarium Specialist, Pacific Science Center "2012: The Movie, the Astronomy, the Hoax"
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October 26th 2009, 7pm James Porter Medical Director of Robotics, Swedish Medical Center "Robot-assisted surgery: the past, present and future"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
October 6th 2009 Russell Maguire The Boeing Company "Nanotechnology in Commercial Airplanes"
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September 28th 2009 John Sahr UW Electrical Engineering "Sound Garden: a radar odyssey through the Northern Lights"
Queen Anne Location:
September 1st 2009 Alan Diercks Sr. Research Scientist, Institute for Systems Biology "A Systems Biology Approach to Studying Influenza (including Swine Flu)"
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August 31st 2009 Fran Solomon Adjunct Professor, University of British Columbia and The Evergreen State College Tacoma "Toxic Chemicals and Hormone Disruption: Reproductive Health Effects in Fish, Frogs, and People"
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July 27th 2009 Allison Coffin & Kelly Owens Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, University of Washington "Using fish to cure hearing loss"
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June 29th 2009 Greg Foltz Swedish Neuroscience Institute "Brain cancer in the Pacific Northwest: an inside perspective 'gene by gene' by one of the region's leading neurosurgeons"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
June 2nd 2009 Rick Keil University of Washington; Fleming Professor of Undergraduate Education; School of Oceanography "Using a Volunteer-Based Sampling Network to Evaluate Cooking Spices and Chemicals in the Puget Sound"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
May 5th 2009 Jim Thomson University of Washington Applied Physics Lab "The Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center: Projects and Goals"
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April 27th 2009 Lee Adams Summit Science Consultants Antibody Development for Human Therapy
Lower Queen Anne Location:
April 7th, 2009 Gary Lagerloef Senior Scientist and President of Earth & Space Research "Climate Research in the Space Age"
Ravenna Location:
March 30th 2009 Steve Malone Retired Director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, UW "Early Warning for the Next Great Cascadia Earthquake"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
March 3rd 2009 Dr. Adam Frank Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester "End of the Beginning: Before the Big Bang in Cosmology, Mythology and the Science vs. Religion Debate "
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February 23rd 2009 Leonard Ruff Director, Callison Architect and Design Firm "Making the Internet Green: How to Build Sustainable Data Centers"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
February 3rd 2009 Dana L. Miller Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center "Buying Time With Suspended Animation"
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January 26th 2009 Alan Diercks Sr. Research Scientist, Institute for Systems Biology "Systems Biology Approaches to Understanding Influenza Infection"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
January 6th 2009 Bruce Balick Professor of Astronomy. U.W. and PSC Foundation "Hubble Space Telescope and the Transformation of Modern Astronomy"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
December 2nd 2008 Laura Koutsky Professor of Epidemiology, University of Washington "The Pros and Cons of HPV Vaccines"
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November 24th 2008 Paul Yager Dept of Bioengineering, University of Washington "Development of diagnostic tools for the developing world--a Seattle story"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
November 5th 2008 Michael Von Korff and Diana E. H. Birkett Group Health Cooperative "Health Care Policy: What to Expect from the New Administration"
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October 27th 2008 Ted White Seattle Biomedical Research Institute "New and re-emerging Infectious diseases:what's new? what's hot? what's not? what do you got?"
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October 7th 2008 David Boose Evolutionary Biologist and Professor at Gonzaga University What can evolution tell us about God? a presentation to highlight Lucys Legacy: The Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia at PSC
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September 29th 2008 Phil Hurvitz Geographic Information Scientist, University of Washington "Where Y'at? An Introduction to Global Positioning Systems (GPS)"
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September 2nd 2008 Mick Spillanet UW Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO) "Tsunamis : Detection and a Model-Based, Real-Time Warning System
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August 25th 2008 Karen Hedine President & CEO, Micronics "Diagnosing Preventable Diseases: Bridging global health needs with 21st century technologies in order to provide timely patient care"
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August 5th 2008 Ted Nugent, Jr. "The Space Elevator"
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July 28th 2008 John Medina UW Department of Bioengineering "Paying Attention to Stress and how it Affects the Brain" Presented in association with the Forum on Science, Ethics and Policy (FOSEP)
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July 1st 2008 Yoky Matsuoka Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington "Merging Robotics and Neuroscience"
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June 30th 2008 Sally James Science and Medical Writer "Brevity is complex: how science is reported in the media" Sally James' website Knight Science Journalism website
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April 28th 2008 Peter Myler Principal Investigator, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute "Structural Genomics and Infectious Disease"
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April 1st 2008 Steve Gilbert Institute of Neurotoxicology and Neurological Disorders, and Director of Toxipedia "Pushing the Boundaries of Best: Sports Performance Enhancement using Steroids, B12, and Epoetin." For more information about Toxipedia
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March 31st 2008 Robert A. Brown UW Department of Atmospheric Sciences "Earth science satellites and their contribution to weather and climate models (and why they have become political)"
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March 4th 2008 Tom Ackerman Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington "Global Warming: Its the water and a lot more"
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January 28th 2008 Bill McNeely Organizer, Science on Tap "Powering the Planet: conversations about alternative fuels" For more information about this talk For the powerpoint presentation of this talk
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February 5th 2008 Tom Pratt US Geological Survey "Seattle Fault: the Crack in Seattle's Basement"
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January 8th 2008 Marshall S. Horwitz University of Washington School of Medicine "Tracking Stem Cells with Mutations: The Family Tree within You"
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December 4th 2007 Jeffrey S. Duchin Chief of the Communicable Disease Epidemiology & Immunization Section of Public Health - Seattle & King County "A perspective on MRSA and other multi-drug resistant organisms" Slides from this talk
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November 14th 2007 Carl Bergstrom Associate Professor, Department of Biology, UW "An Evolutionary Biologist's Perspective on Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial"
October 29th 2007
Joshua Tewksbury Department of Biology, University of Washington "The Biological Impacts of Climate Change: trouble in the tropics" Download the video of this talk (wmv format, ~150MB)
September 24th 2007
Alfredo Gomez-Beloz Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington "The Botany of Chocolate" Presented in association with the Forum on Science, Ethics and Policy (FOSEP) Download the video of this talk (wmv format, ~150MB)
August 27th 2007
Gerard Cangelosi Associate Member, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute "Understanding tuberculosis, XDR-TB, and Godzilla: A guide for modern city dwellers" Download the video of this talk (wmv format, ~100MB)
July 30th 2007
Eddie Bernard Director, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NOAA "The 3 things you need to know about tsunamis"
June 25th 2007
Blake Hannaford Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington "Biorobotics: can robots restore the house call to the practice of medicine?" Download the video of this talk (wmv format, ~180MB)
May 21st 2007
Kristina Adams UW Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology "The Human Chimera: how fetal cells trafficking across the placenta can persist in the mother long-term and contribute to health and disease" Download the video of this talk (wmv format, ~60MB)
April 30th 2007
Peter Vitaliano UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences "Stress, Aging and the Effects on our Body: is Caregiving Hazardous to Your Health?" Download the video of this talk (wmv format, ~55MB)
March 26th 2007
Franois Baneyx Director, Center for Nanotechnology at UW "A brief introduction to nanotechnology" More information Download the video of this talk (wmv format, ~45MB)
February 26th 2007
Stephen Streufert and Lori Mitchell Executive Director and Education Director Salish Sea Expeditions - Science under Sail "Student Research on Puget Sound - Hear What Tomorrow's Marine Scientists are Discovering Today" More information Additional Salish handout from the event (doc) And an article from the Journal of Student Research (pdf) Download the video of this talk (wmv format, ~45MB)
January 22nd 2007
Ann Marie Kimball UW School of Public Health "Risky Trade: Infectious Disease in the Era of Global Trade" More information Download the video of this talk (wmv format, ~88MB)
October 30th 2006
Marja Brandon Head of School, Seattle Girls' School "Women and Science" More information about Seattle Girls' School Download the video of this talk (wmv format, ~25MB)
September 25th 2006
Matthew Strassler UW Department of Physics "Beyond the Hype: The Weird World of String Theory" More information Download the video of this talk (wmv format, ~60MB)
August 28th 2006
Michael J. Laine President, LiftPort Group "Nanotubes, Robotics and How to Climb to space" More information
July 24 2006
Minas Tanielian Boeing Phantom Works "Metamaterials & Cloaking Devices: Bringing Star Trek Techonology to Life" More information on this talk
June 26th 2006
Frank Forencich Chief Creative Officer, GoAnimal "Life in our alien environment: what human evolution tells us about health and physical fitness in the modern world" More information on this talk
May 22nd 2006
Peter D. Ward UW Departments of Paleontology, Biology and Astronomy "Life as We Do Not Know It: The NASA Search for Alien Life"
April 24th 2006
Beverly Pierson, PhD Professor Emerita, Biology Dept, University of Puget Sound "Extreme Life: Creatures that breach the barriers to our existence"
March 27th 2006
Eric Stuve, moderator Chair, UW Department of Chemical Engineering "Fuel Cell Trivia in the Pub...with a Twist of Science" Presented in association with Sigma Xi and NOVA scienceNOW
February 27th 2006
Diana Gordon, MAT and Steve Gordon, MD Oregon Health Sciences University "Science, Pseudoscience, and Medical Quackery" More information on this talk
January 30th 2006
Billy Roeseler Associate Technical Fellow, Boeing "Electric Airplanes" Abstract of this talk (rtf)
November 28th 2005
Dr. Noel Weiss Cancer Epidemiologist, UW Dept. of Epidemiology "A Layman's Guide to Interpreting Health Reports in the Media" Presented in Conjunction with FOSEP
October 24th 2005
Greg Bear Science Fiction Author "The Darwin Code: Intelligent Design without God" For more about author Greg Bear
September 26th 2005
Mike Baker and Jeff Smiley Brewers, Baron Brewing Company "The Science of Beer Brewing" More information on Baron Brewing
August 29th 2005
Bill McNeely Boeing Phantom Works "Celebrating 100 Years of Einstein's Special Relativity"
July 25th 2005
Michael Laine President of the Liftport Group "The Science behind Building the Space Elevator" What is a Space Elevator?
June 27th 2005
Keith Kegley Director of Emerging Market Services and Platform Strategy, Microsoft Corporation "Culture Jamming Frequencies: Becoming a Pirate Broadcaster"
May 23rd 2005
Dr. C. Anthony Blau Director, University of Washington Stem Cell Center "Stem Cells, Around the World and on Your Block" Presented in association with the April NOVA special ScienceNOW
April 25th 2005
Dr. Bernard Hallet Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington "Understanding the Himalayas"
March 28th 2005
Dr. Susan Okie Contributing Editor, New England Journal of Medicine "Fed Up! Winning the War Against Childhood Obesity" See the book website
February 28th 2005
Dr. William Calvin University of Washington School of Medicine "The Good News About Bad Climate Flips" Read more about this talk Presented in association with the January NOVA special scienceNOW
January 31st 2005
Dr. Steve Gilbert Institute of Neurotoxicology and Neurological Disorders "A Small Dose of Toxicology" Read more about this topic.
November 29th 2004
Dr. Alan Weiner Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington "Of Genomes, Chromosomes, and Genetic Disease"
October 25th 2004
Dr. Craig Hogan Vice Provost for Research, University of Washington "Big Bang, Black Holes, and Beyond"
October 19th 2004
David Brin Science Fiction Author "A World Filled With Cameras: Security at the Cost of Freedom? Or Can We Have Both?"
September 13th 2004
Dr. Eric Adelberger Center for Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Washington "Gravity, Extra Dimensions and Dark Energy--What in the world is going on?" |