Science

Nature Explorers - Join the WiSciFest BioBlitz

Unleash your curiosity with the 2026 Wisconsin Science Festival BioBlitz

All day

Application Deadline: WISCIENCE Fellows Programs

All day

Touring the Lost City

Arboretum

1-3 p.m.

Meet at Visitor Center, UW–Madison Arboretum

Morgridge Metabolism Colloquium

10-11 a.m.

H.F. DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building

WID Seminar Series: Claudia Solis-Lemus

Evolving Methods for a Tangled Tree of Life

2-3 p.m.

3rd Floor Orchard View Room, Discovery Building
Also offered online

Data Centers and the Grid

Forward in Energy Forum

4:30-5:15 p.m.

1115 Wisconsin Energy Institute
Also offered online

Sustainability Symposium

Fifth Annual UW-Madison Sustainability Symposium

1-5:30 p.m.

Discovery Building

2026 Dr. Daniel I. Kaufer Lecture: Dementia Diagnosis and Care

3:30-4:30 p.m.

Online

Biology Colloquium: Daijiang Li

Cities and Seasons: Tracking Global Change in Plant Biodiversity and Phenology

3:30-4:30 p.m.

B302 Birge Hall

Anthrax, Cholera, and Bot - Oh No! The precise identification of bacterial strains' origins

Paul Keim -- Northern Arizona University | Host: Sabine Pellett

3:30-4:30 p.m.

Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences

Ophthalmology Grand Rounds via Zoom

Fountane Chan, MD presents "Sightseeing with Amyloid: A Tour Across the Eye." Todd Christensen, MD presents "Sky Vision: Ophthalmology and the Aviator."

7-8 a.m.

Online

Bat Acoustic Walk

with the Friends of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve

6:15-7:45 p.m.

Picnic Point entrance kiosk, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000 University Bay Drive, Madison WI 53705

Application Deadline: WISCIENCE Peer Leaders

STEM undergrads: grow as a leader while helping other students!

All day

Touring the Lost City

Arboretum

1-3 p.m.

Meet at Visitor Center, UW–Madison Arboretum

Madison AI for Proteins presentation by Katrina Forest

Presentation by Katrina Forest

Noon-1 p.m.

1109 McArdle Building

Find a Research Mentor Workshop

Learn how to get started with undergrad research

6-7 p.m.

STEM Commons (Room 126), Steenbock Library

Pathology Grand Rounds

Jane Dickerson, PhD, DABCC - Seattle Children's

Noon-1 p.m.

Online

Genomics Seminar Series: Luca Pinello, PhD, Harvard University

Dissecting the Regulatory Genome by Destruction and Creation

1:30-2:30 p.m.

UW Biotechnology Center Auditorium, Genetics-Biotechnology Center Building

Leveraging Element-omics Data to Establish Quantitative Inorganic Phenotypes in Microbiology and Immunolog

Thomas O'Halloran -- Michigan State University | Host: Tim Donohue

3:30-4:30 p.m.

Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Sciences

Biology Colloquium: Aaron Ragsdale

TBA

3:30-4:30 p.m.

B302 Birge Hall