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WiCOR Lecture: Understanding the Chemical Origins of Life

Professor Jim Cleaves, Department of Chemistry, Howard University

Event Details

Date
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Time
7:30-8:30 p.m.
Location
H.F. DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building
Description
Professor Jim Cleaves, Department of Chemistry, Howard University. This lecture surveys a century of inquiry into life’s origins on Earth, one of science’s great mysteries, and examines the question’s implications for how common life may be beyond our planet. Prof. Jim Cleaves, Howard University. will present a seminar entitled “Prebiotic Chemical Diversity” for the Fall 2025 Wisconsin Center for Origins Research Lecture. This event is open to the public. Learn more at: https://go.wisc.edu/wicor
Cost
Free
Accessibility

We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-262-4611 or email wicor@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Reasonable effort will be made to support your request.

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