Wisconsin Center for Origins Research

Flyer for the WiCOR STAR 2026 Bootcamp, which has a beach scene showing labels of the different topics covered during the bootcamp, and a group photo from 2025 along with a QR Code linking to the event webpage.

WiCOR will be holding the second annual Summer Training in Astrobiology Research (STAR) Bootcamp on June 1-5, 2026 at UW-Madison!

Registration is now open and will close April 1st

Visit our event webpage to learn more
go.wisc.edu/wicorstar2026

#astrobiology #uwmadison 🔭 🧪 #planetsci #chem #bio

🚨 Applications for the WiCOR #postdoctoral fellowship are due this Saturday, Nov 15!

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Interested in coming to UW-Madison and working with WiCOR on questions related to the origin of life? Apply for this new postdoctoral fellowship opportunity. Applications due November 15th!

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WiCOR seeks a #postdoctoral fellow to participate in Center #research in any discipline related to our two main research questions:
1. How do habitable planets form? 🪐
2. How does life emerge on habitable planets? 🧬

Full information at: wicor.wisc.edu/postdoc/

Apply by Nov 15

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#postdoc #hiring

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Support #WiCOR during this “Flocktober”! 🦩

Look for WiCOR in the full list of funds at uwflamingos.com
or visit our Give webpage wicor.wisc.edu/give/

#fillthehill #uwmadison @uwmadisonls.bsky.social

👏Congratulations to #WiCORMember Ángel F. Adames Corraliza for receiving a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship!

New paper from Eva Stafne and Juliette Becker (@jcbecker.bsky.social)! 📢

doi.org/10.48550/arX...

📢 We're so excited the #WiCORLecture is only one week away!!

Attend in-person with colleagues, friends, and family on Wed. Oct 8 at 7:30 pm! go.wisc.edu/wicor-lectur...

Flyer for Prof Jim Cleaves's WiCOR Lecture on Oct 8 at 7:30 pm, "Understanding the Chemical Origins of Life". Details in post and more on webpage!

Prof. Jim Cleaves will present "Understanding the Chemical Origins of Life" as the fall WiCOR Lecture on Oct 8 @ 7:30 PM!

This event is open to the public!
Full event details: go.wisc.edu/wicor-lectur...

🧪🔭 #Astrobiology #OriginsOfLife #PrebioticChemistry #chemsky @widofficial.bsky.social

#WiCOR research "studying the origins of life on earth and – perhaps – elsewhere in the galaxy" continues! Read the Welcome from Chancellor Mnookin to learn more about campus and the start to the academic year!

On, Wisconsin! 👐

Check out this fascinating article from #WiCORMember Juliette Becker 📰👀

🔭 🧪 #exoplanets #WhiteDwarfs #astronomy

Next year we'll be accepting participants from outside of UW-Madison, email wicor@wisc.edu if you are interested!

Flyer for the WiCOR Summer Training in Astrobiology Research (STAR) 2025 Bootcamp, Aug 18-22, with a beach scene showing labels of the different topics covered during the bootcamp.

WiCOR is kicking off our first Summer Training in Astrobiology Research (STAR) 2025 Bootcamp!

This week will be filled with content about #Astronomy, #AtmosphericScience, #Oceanography, #Geoscience, #Chemistry, #Biology, and #OriginsResearch!

wicor.wisc.edu/star-2025-bo...

#WiCORstar2025 ⭐

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From Earth to Exoplanets: Studying Oceans Across the Universe

Want to learn more? You can read more about Zanowski's research in this article from UW-Madison College of Letters & Science: ls.wisc.edu/news/from-ea...

Listen 🎧 to #WiCORMember Hannah Zanowski's interview on The Larry Meiller Show on Wisconsin Public Radio. She shares about her research on the #oceanography of #Earth 🌎and #exoplanets 🪐 -"why stop at one ocean"!

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We’re days away from sending the first #WiCOR Newsletter!

Sign up now to ensure you receive it!
explore.wisc.edu/wicorlanding

Webinar recording available featuring #Research about #Plants 🌱 in #Space 🔭 - the first presentation is from Simon Gilroy, a professor at @uwmadison.bsky.social and a #WiCORMember

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Exciting article from @uwmadisonls.bsky.social on Hannah Zanowski's #exoplanet #oceanography work with #WiCOR!

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#astronomy

📢 Check out this new paper on #hycean planets from Joseph Livesey, @jcbecker.bsky.social, and Susanna Widicus Weaver!

This work was supported by @wicor.bsky.social and the #Research Forward Program at @uwmadison.bsky.social with funding from @warfnews.bsky.social!

#exoplanets #Astronomy 🔭 🧪

Measuring gases around young stars, astronomers unlock major clues to planet formation UW–Madison astronomers and international collaborators have produced the most accurate measurement of the gases swirling around young stars and their changing mass over time. The discovery offers clue

'Baby' stars are typically surrounded by disks loaded with gas, but it isn't long before that mass starts to drift away. #UWMadison astronomers say that might mean gas giants like Jupiter need to form earlier than rocky planets like ours. news.wisc.edu/measuring-ga...

Flyer with the Universe in the Park logo, "“Universe in the Park (UitP) is a popular outreach program of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin– Madison in partnership with UW Space Place.” These presentations are happening at State Parks across Wisconsin this summer. See below to find locations near you!" and “Learn more at: https://badgertalks.wisc.edu/uitp/”, with the schedule for June and July (available on the website linked).

Flyer with the Universe in the Park logo, "“Universe in the Park (UitP) is a popular outreach program of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin– Madison in partnership with UW Space Place.” These presentations are happening at State Parks across Wisconsin this summer. See below to find locations near you!" and “Learn more at: https://badgertalks.wisc.edu/uitp/”, with the schedule for August (available on the website linked).

Visiting #WisconsinStateParks this summer? Like star gazing? 🌟🌌🪐

Attend a #UniverseInThePark talk to learn from astronomers and gaze through telescopes 🔭 🧪

Find details from @uwbadgertalks.bsky.social at badgertalks.wisc.edu/uitp/

#Astronomy #StarGazing #StateParks

Congratulations to #WiCORMember Ke Zhang and the entire ALMA AGE-PRO team on this achievement!

See the press releases from @thenrao.bsky.social and @uwmadison.bsky.social to learn more!

go.wisc.edu/w50l31

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Congratulations to the international AGE-PRO team, led by #WiCORMember Ke Zhang, for their 12 papers in the upcoming issue of the Astrophysical Journal! 🎉

Read the press releases to learn more about their groundbreaking work on #ProtoplanetaryDisks!

public.nrao.edu/news/alma-pl...

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Conservation gardening, and the search for exoplanets We talk to the author of a new guidebook for making our gardens more wildlife friendly. Then, we talk about the discovery of exoplanets orbiting other stars.

Their interview can also be found directly at this link: www.wpr.org/shows/larry-...

If you missed it live, the recording is now available online!

Listen to learn about the challenge of detecting #exoplanets and the interdisciplinary research of #WiCOR

Their interview begins at 50min, and the WiCOR portion begins at 1hr23min during the May 14th episode

Catch #WICORMember Prof. Thomas Beatty (@tgbeatty.bsky.social) and Jim Lattis on Wisconsin Public Radio's Larry Meiller Show tomorrow, May 14 from 12 - 1 pm.

www.wpr.org/shows/larry-...

Join #WiCOR TONIGHT, May 1, at 7 pm for the #WiCORLecture from Nobel Laureate Jack W. Szostak!

go.wisc.edu/d539v5

We are a scientific center at UW-Madison studying Origins Research. WiCOR is interdisciplinary and includes members from the departments of astronomy, atmospheric and oceanic sciences, bacteriology, botany, chemistry, geoscience, and more!

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