Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

Science on the Square/Madison Night Market Fusion

Downtown Madison

Join us for one fantastic night that blends science with downtown Madison businesses! Back for its fifth year, the ever-popular Science on the Square event is again fusing with the Madison Night Market to create a unique way to explore hands-on science activities while also supporting local businesses and vendors. Plus, as a nod to…

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SoundWaves: Through the Looking Glass

Hamel Music Center 740 University Ave., Madison, WI

SoundWaves takes a look at (and through) glass at this year’s Wisconsin Science Festival. What is glass? How is it used to explore our universe? To build our buildings? To tell stories about our beliefs? To create musical sounds? Find out in the Collins Recital Hall at Hamel Music Center at the first SoundWaves event…

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Red Cross Blood Drive

WARF Building 614 Walnut St., Madison, WI

Join us for our fall Red Cross Blood Drive! To donate, sign up online; walk-ins are also welcome….

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Understanding the Global Plastics Problem to Inform Solutions

Virtual

Plastics are a class of diverse and versatile materials that we rely on in modern-day life, yet plastics are known to contaminate marine, aquatic and terrestrial environments around the globe. Kara Lavender Law, professor of oceanography at the Sea Education Association, will discuss the global plastics problem from production through disposal, including the environmental science…

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Red Cross Blood Drive

WARF Building 614 Walnut St., Madison, WI

Join us for our winter Red Cross Blood Drive! To donate, sign up online; walk-ins are also welcome….

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WARF Ambassador Trivia Night

Varsity Hall III, Union South 1308 W. Dayton St., Madison, WI

UW-Madison postdocs and grad students are invited to show off your science, pop culture and miscellaneous trivia knowledge with the WARF Ambassadors! WARF will provide pizza, appetizers and beer. Come by yourself or with a team of up to four people. The top three teams will receive prizes….

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WARF Therapeutics Symposium

Chemistry Building, North Tower, Room S413 1101 University Ave., Madison, WI

Join WARF Therapeutics, the UW-Madison Department of Chemistry and the UW-Madison Synthesis and Catalysis Center for the 2023 WARF Therapeutics Symposium. 3:30-4:15 p.m. Student Presentations Ben Chi, Weix Group Environmentally Friendly Nickel-Catalyzed Reductive Difluoromethylation of Aryl Bromides Emily Schroeder, Schomaker Group Expanding the Scope of Silver-BOX Catalyzed Enantioselective C-H Amination via Nitrene Transfer Tony Meza,…

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Phenylketonuria: Insights into Pathophysiology and Novel Therapeutics

John D. Wiley Conference Center, Waisman Center 1500 Highland Ave., Madison, WI

Phenylketonuria (PKU), due to recessively inherited phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) deficiency, is among the most common inborn errors of metabolism with an incidence of 1:16,000 live births in the US. PAH deficiency causes accumulation of the amino acid phenylalanine (Phe) to extremely high concentrations throughout the body but most importantly in brain. The precise molecular mechanisms…

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Discovery Connections at the UW Family Gardening Day

Allen Centennial Garden 620 Babcock Dr, Madison, WI

Join the Discovery Connections team at the UW Family Gardening Day. Find us outside at Allen Centennial Garden. See how we can represent ourselves with Legos, learn about individuals in our community, explore other Family Gardening Day activities and more!…

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Red Cross Blood Drive

WARF Building 614 Walnut St., Madison, WI

Join us for our spring Red Cross Blood Drive! To donate, sign up online; walk-ins are also welcome….

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WARF Innovation Day at Summerfest Tech

Potawatomi Hotel & Casino 1721 W. Canal St., Milwaukee, WI

Get an inside look at some of the most commercially promising technologies from campuses across the state. Register for WARF Innovation Day and other Summerfest Tech events. 2023 WARF Accelerator Quick Pitch Lineup Health Care NeuraWorx: Enhancing Glymphatic Flow for Brain Health Kip Ludwig, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Co-Director of the Wisconsin Institute…

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Red Cross Blood Drive

WARF Building 614 Walnut St., Madison, WI

Join us for our summer Red Cross blood drive! To donate, sign up online; walk-ins are also welcome….

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