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Ms. Monica Metzler JD MA, Founder and Executive Director of the Illinois Science Council, joins us today on The Prism Podcast.
Episode 26
Monica Metzler JD (Illinois Science Council)
Founder & Executive Director
Monica’s formal education in science ended with high school chemistry. She went on to earn a B.S. in Public Policy from Northwestern University, and a J.D. along with an M.A. in Policy from Duke University. Her latent interest in science continued and in 2005 she realized Chicago had no coordinated effort promoting science as it did for arts & culture. She created ISC in 2006 to share the astounding amount of science happening in her hometown.
http://www.illinoisscience.org/about/
Why?
Science café. Café Scientifique. Science in the Pub. And more.
A rundown of some of their projects and events.
Science funding is lacking.
Understanding of science and technology makes us have a better society.
More description of many of the amazing programs the Illinois Science Council has had.
Beer
Honey
Lightning strike/tasers/etc.
Coffee (intelligentsia)
String theory
Chicago as the city of science.
The birthday of science.
Pi day 2015! 10 digits of pi to celebrate. See us there in 2015.
Ninja learning.
Marijuana, Microbes, and Milk.
Brain programs coming up.
Beer: Flywheel from Metropolitan brewery. http://metrobrewing.com/
WOD: Kleptoparasitic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptoparasitism