We are now accepting applications for Science Expeditions events for 2005. This year the kickoff event will be held in the Engineering Centers Building on April 2, 2005.
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All Events Link Click here to see a full description of ALL the data we have on ALL events and sub-events. Major Events: (Follow the link at the bottom of each major event to see Exploration Stations and other sub-events.) Bright Earth March 29 2005 A look at the use of color in Western Art through the eyes of a scientist; a lecture by Phillip Ball. Phillip Ball is a Science Journalist, Author and Consulting Editor for Nature. Lecture Free and open to the public. Photography's Golden Legend: Art meets Science in Chrysotype by Mike Ware March 31 2005 The decorative uses of that most alluring metal, gold, go back into human prehistory, but knowledge of the metal in its colloidal state dates only from the mid-17th century, when it was first employed as the purple of Cassius for staining glass and ceramics to a fine deep red. Thanks to the work of British photographer and chemist Mike Ware, this superb pigment has now joined the very select group of noble metals - silver, platinum and palladium - that can be used as image substances for monochrome photographs. Dr. Ware will discuss the history of the chrysotype, or gold print, and explain how through chemical manipulation of the size and shape of gold nanoparticles chrysotypes can also be made to display a wide range of colour; including pink, magenta, brown, purple, violet, blue or green; in addition to fine neutral monochrome tones. Science Expeditions Kick-off April 2 2005 Exploration Stations and Science Spectaculars make the Science Expeditions kick-off an entree to the world of science at UW-Madison for all ages. http://www2.biotech.wisc.edu/alliance/expeditions2005home.php The Rock Concert April 9 2005 The Jazz Passengers will perform new music written in honor of the World's Oldest Terrestrial Object. [limited seating] Public Display of World's Oldest Terrestrial Object April 9 2005 The Geology Museum is holding a special one-day exhibition where the public will be able to see, for the first and perhaps only time, "the oldest thing in the world", a Zircon. Zircons are nearly indestructible. They preserve, in chemical form, information about the environments in which they formed. Dr. John Valley of the UW Geology Department currently is studying extremely ancient zircons from Australia. This research, which was featured on the front page of The New York Times, provides a unique glimpse of the earth shortly after it formed. One of the zircons has been dated at 4.404 billion years, making it the oldest known terrestrial object. These zircons eventually will be repatriated to Australia. See http://www.therockconcert.org Women in Science and Engineering: What the Research Really Says April 14 2005 Harvard President Lawrence Summers remarked that women's under-representation at the highest levels of STEM careers is (1) primarily caused by "intrinsic aptitude" differences between men and women in math and science ability, and (2) only to a lesser extent caused by overt or "passive discrimination or stereotyping." In a five-member panel moderated by Professor Jo Handelsman (Plant Pathology, and co-Director of the Women in Science & Engineering Leadership Institute), UW-Madison experts comment on the scientific evidence for Summers' claims. The panel includes Paul Whalen, Department of Psychiatry; Linda Oakley, School of Nursing; Caitilyn Allen, Department of Plant Pathology and Women's Studies Program; Molly Carnes, Department of Medicine and co-director of WISELI; and Chancellor John Wiley. Open House for the Synchrotron Radiation Center April 24 2005 The Synchrotron Radiation Center, a NSF funded US National Facility, produces Infrared to X-ray light used to do science research. During the Open House the general public will have the opportunity to learn about the SRC through a tour of the facility, participate in hands-on activities, and discuss SRC research with Users. More information is available at http://www.src.wisc.edu. Family Horticulture Days April 30 2005 Family Horticulture Day will be Saturday April 30 from 10 to 2 at the West Madison Agricultural Research Station (WMARS) at 8502 Mineral Point Road in collaboration with Dane County Master Gardeners and Dane County 4-H youth and adult volunteers. Among the featured events will be Sowing seeds (of tomatoes, peppers, herbs, marigolds, whatever) demonstrations Transplanting seedlings previously grown in the WMARS greenhouses Making cuttings as part of a cloning demonstration Demonstration of Planting of Soybean Seeds and Layout of Test Plots including the new sentinel plots for detecting any Asian Soybean Rust Introduce People to Experimental Design by testing the effect of seed depth on germination, using seeds sown at various depths in a flat A composting demonstration Garden Layout Training and Consulting. Please see http://www2.biotech.wisc.edu/alliance/fhdhome.php

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