Stem cell summer camp inspiring early careers in science and technology
Every summer since 2006, students from some of the smallest high schools in Wisconsin descend on the Morgridge Institute for Research for the Morgridge Rural Summer Science Camp. Now, 12 years into the camp, organizers are finding it has been a difference-maker.Read more >
New effort gives teens the opportunity, tools to drive science programming
The newly-launched Discovery Teen Science Café gives Madison high school students the opportunity to research, plan and host events that connect them with scientists working on topics the students are most interested in. Read more >
Immortal: An oral history of stem cell discovery
In November 1998, the journal Science published James Thomson’s groundbreaking work on embryonic stem cells. There has been 20 years of progress since the initial discovery spawned a new field of research, and tremendous potential exists for the future. We reached out to the people who lived it, and they shared the experiences in their own words. This is their story. Read more >Featured EventScience Cafe: Human Gene Editing: Moving from Science Fiction to Reality
June 21 @ 6:00 pm
As gene editing techniques become more refined, the possibility of editing the human genome is moving from science fiction to reality. What should we do with this power?
