Celebrate the Unveiling of the 2024 Science to Street Art Mural! Join us at State Line Distillery for the debut of this year’s stunning mural, Regenerative Coexistence, brought to life through a collaboration between Exact Sciences and the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery’s Illuminating Discovery Hub. Meet artists Sonya Sankaran and Richie Morales as they share … Continued
Back by popular demand, this engaging demonstration fosters public awareness and appreciation of science and art. Join the celebrations with Bassam Shakhashiri and a few special guests. This event will take place after the Discovery Expo in the H.F. DeLuca Forum in the Discovery Building with overflow viewing in the 3rd floor Orchard View Room. … Continued
The Discovery Expo – Community Day invites learners of all ages to the Discovery Building on UW-Madison’s campus to experience dozens of interactive, hands-on exploration stations that feature STEM activities ranging from virtual reality to health and medicine, chemistry, physics demonstrations and more! Explore the hands-on activities at your own pace and interact with scientists, … Continued
10/18/24 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival. Across cultures, sound and rhythm have been used to ease suffering, promote healing, and calm the mind. In his new book, I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author of This Is … Continued
Join Waukesha County Land Conservancy’s Land Management Director, Helen Holtz, to learn about turtles of Wisconsin and how we can best help them. In Wisconsin, we are lucky to have 11 species of turtles. However, due to habitat loss and other human impacts, turtle populations across the state are in decline. During the event, you … Continued
10/18/24 5 p.m. – 6 p.m. Discovery Building – DeLuca Forum Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival. “Even now, nearly a century after her death, Marie Curie remains the only female scientist most people can name,” writes Dava Sobel at the opening of her shining portrait of the sole Nobel laureate decorated in two separate … Continued
10/18/24 4 p.m. – 5 p.m. Discovery Building – DeLuca Forum Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival. Explore the remarkable story of Wisconsin astronomers whose curiosity, persistence, and innovation helped us better understand our universe. Chasing the Stars traces the history of the University of Wisconsin’s Washburn Observatory, where some of the world’s most cutting-edge astronomical … Continued
Science and stories collide in this fun, interactive S.T.E.M. program featuring the ‘coolest’ thing in science — DRY ICE! Volunteers help conduct each experiment as the whole audience gets involved in changing variables and making predictions! Together we’ll explore the “spooky” effects of frozen carbon dioxide as we learn all about: solids, liquids + gases … Continued
10/17/24 7 p.m. – 8 p.m. Central Library – Community Room 302 Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival. There Are (No) Stupid Questions … in Science was born from Elson’s popular web series, 60 Seconds of Science, wherein her avid followers, from all around the world, suggest topics to be explained within sixty seconds. In the … Continued
Stop by the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art during Science on the Square to get up-close and personal with robots! The Wisconsin Robotics group will be showing their model rover and facilitating robotic interactions throughout the evening. They recently showcased their work at the University Rover Challenge, a competition designed to get college students into … Continued
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