This is a free, in-person event hosted by Talamore Senior Living of Sun Prairie on October 14, 2024 at 2:00 PM as a part of the Wisconsin Science Festival. No registration is necessary to attend.

Explore the people and the places of great discoveries at UW-Madison that have changed how we look at life and how we lead our lives, including the discovery of vitamins, DNA breakthroughs that won four Nobel Prizes in Medicine, and the development of human embryonic stem cells.

Presenter Tom Zinnen was a Biotechnology Extension Specialist between 1991 and 2024. He also served as a Congressional Science Fellow in 2000–2001, and he was on loan to the National Science Foundation from 2008 to 2010 as a speechwriter for the NSF Director. He led BioTrek, the public outreach program of the Biotech Center and of the Division of Extension/Wisconsin 4-H. He was the emcee of the “Wednesday Nite @ The Lab” public science series on PBS Wisconsin. His favorite role is welcoming Wisconsinites to come experience science as exploring the unknown at their public, land-grant research university.