National Parks Conservation Association: An Evening with William Dietrich: Exploring the Opportunities for a New Manhattan Project National Park

Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 6:30 – 8:00pm

Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5 suggested donation.

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Bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist William Dietrich discusses the history and importance of the Manhattan Project, as well as his 1995 book Northwest Passage, an environmental and cultural history of the Columbia River inspired by its imperiled salmon runs and epic pioneer past.

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UW Science Now: Camila Tejo-Haristoy: Soils in the Air: The Savings Account of the Forest AND Laura E. Martinez: The Life and Times of H. Pylori

Thursday, February 23, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm

Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5.

Camila Tejo-Haristoy, a graduate student in the UW’s School of Forest Resources, examines how plants, animals, and other organisms interact in trees, particularly in the coastal forests and tree canopies of the Pacific Northwest. Then Laura E. Martinez, graduate student in the Pathobiology Graduate Program at the UW, discusses Helicobacter pylori, a cancer-causing bacterium that infects the stomachs of about 50% of all humans.

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Science: Michio Kaku: ‘Physics of the Future’

Friday, February 24, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm

Great Hall; enter on 8th Avenue. $5.

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From his bestselling books (Physics of the Impossible; Hyperspace; and Physics of the Future, now in paperback) to his frequent morning-show appearances and his own series on the Science Channel, Kaku analyzes the revolutionary developments in medicine, computers, and quantum physics that will change our way of life, our view of “impossible”— and civilization itself.

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