Wisconsin Center for Origins Research

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

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📢 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!

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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!

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#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!

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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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📢 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!

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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.

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

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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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The next #WiCORLecture is in one week!

Make plans to join us for this #OriginsOfLife seminar!

🗓️May 1, 7pm, Chem S429 @uwmadisonchem.bsky.social, @uwmadison.bsky.social

Prof. Thomas Beatty (@tgbeatty.bsky.social), a member of #WiCOR, will be presenting a Badger Talk on April 24th @ 6pm at the Middleton Public Library!

Register to attend and learn more about "How Can We Find Other Life in the Universe?"

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Today, April 22, we celebrate #EarthDay!

At #WiCOR we know that studying our own #atmosphere, #ocean, #geochemistry, #biology and #chemistry here on #Earth can inform our understanding of the #OriginsOfLife both here on Earth and on habitable #exoplanets. 🔭🧪

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Did you miss #DayOfTheBadger? Want to support WiCOR?

Visit the #WiCOR Give page to learn more: wicor.wisc.edu/give/

Flyer for the WiCOR Lecture for Spring 2025 "The Origin of Life: Easy or Hard?" from Jack W. Szostak, on May 1, 7pm in Chemistry S429 (UW-Madison), Open to the Public. Abstract and event accommodation info on website linked in text.

Join #WiCOR for the Spring 2025 #WiCORLecture on “The Origin of Life: Easy or Hard?” from Prof. Jack W. Szostak on 📅May 1 @ 7 pm in the📍Chemistry Building S429, UW-Madison!

This talk is open to the public - share with friends & family!

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📢Don't miss these talks today and tomorrow!!