Dr. Rob Johnson, Group Leader at Janelia Research Campus discusses how scientists are using new experimental approaches and machine learning to understand how brains learn and use common sense. Admission is free! Come early and enjoy artfully prepared… Read More
Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Richard F. Picanso talks about the mechanisms that drive the birth, growth and death of tropical cyclones, and how operational missions of the Hurricane Hunters flying unit have evolved with improved technology. There… Read More
Ron Vale, vice president and director of HHMI Janelia Research Campus, talks about the small protein-based machines that convert chemical energy into biological motion and why they are essential for medicine and biotechnology. He also discusses what scientists… Read More
John Schwartz, retired FBI special agent and founder of the Center for Combating Elder Financial Abuse, explains the mindset of convicted financial predators and shares advice on how to protect yourself or a vulnerable relative. Come early for… Read More
Entire industries owe their origins to the fluke 19th-century discovery of fluorescent dyes. Jon Grimm, a senior scientist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, explores how dye synthesis sparked the evolution of organic chemistry and how 21st-century chemistry is… Read More
In the early 1400s, Florence gave birth to the Renaissance, one of the world's greatest creative awakenings. Discover the lasting achievements of Brunelleschi, Botticelli and Michelangelo as art historian John Daum explores this city of food, art and… Read More
Isabel Espinosa Medina, a group leader at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, discusses the importance of genetics and microscopy technologies in discovering how cells build organisms and introduces a new genetic tool called TEMPO, based on CRISPR. Admission is… Read More
The Making of America's Active Transportation Network Author Peter Harnik shares the story of the grassroots activism that helped convert many abandoned rail lines into beloved recreation trails, including our very own W&OD trail. Part of LCPL's Spoke'n… Read More
Dr. Giuseppe Esposito, chief of nuclear medicine at Georgetown University Hospital, shares how recent FDA-approved radiopharmaceuticals have advanced the field of nuclear medicine and now allow physicians to diagnose, and in some cases treat, conditions including breast and… Read More
