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Weston Roundtable: Synthetic Biology and the Conservation of Nature.
Synthetic biology is a fast-moving innovative field with the potential to change our relationship to the natural world. It involves the design and construction of new biological parts, and the re-design of existing, natural biological systems. It has many potential applications, including replacing natural products with synthetic ones, reviving extinct species, and creating powerful tools…
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Environmental Breakfast: We’ll Always Have Paris
Join the Wisconsin Academy for their monthly conversation in the Environmental Breakfast series, “We’ll Always Have Paris.” The topic for this gathering will be “How Counties can lead” with Keith Reopelle, Director, Dane County Office of Energy and Climate Change. This series is presented as part of the Wisconsin Academy’s Climate & Energy Initiative. Register here.
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Affliction: A Special Screening Event with Doctors Without Borders
Ebola Survivor Corps, Doctors Without Borders-Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), the UWSMPH Infectious Disease Interest Group and WUD Film present Affliction, a powerful MSF documentary about the devastating effects of the 2014 Ebola epidemic from West Africa to Madison. Shot in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, Affliction provides an intimate look at the impact of the Ebola outbreak on the…
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Journalism, Ethics & The Battle Over Health Care
Sponsored by the Center for Journalism Ethics. Three experts will join faculty, staff and students with an interest in health policy or communication at the Overture Center: •Sarah Kliff, health policy journalist at Vox •David Wahlberg, health and medicine reporter for the Wisconsin State Journal •J. Paul Kelleher, assistant professor of bioethics at UW-Madison RSVP…
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Professor Wins Award for Research on Genocide
Professor Wins Award for Research on Genocide