SOLD OUT: Dive in with DOER
Visit the Deep Ocean Exploration and Research (DOER) facility where underwater robotics, submersibles, and subsea systems are designed, engineered, built, and tested before being deployed on missions around the world. Learn about the type of work the vehicles do and the kinds of people who use them. Please Note: DOER is family friendly but closed-toed, […]
SOLD OUT: Grey Water and Wetlands: The EcoCenter’s Wastewater Treatment System
The EcoCenter is an off the grid, self-sustaining educational facility and recreational center. It features a wastewater treatment system, a living roof, interior construction based from recycled materials, and a solar panel system. Our programs focus on educating the public about the EcoCenter’s Green Features and exploring environmental justice themes through the history of the […]
Defeating Neurodegeneration: Virtual Career Panel and Tour
Join our diverse panel of Denali Scientists, as they discuss their journey from student to industry professional. Learn about how they chose their career paths and what majors, interests, and/or life factors influenced their way to a career in drug discovery/development for brain diseases. Experience a virtual lab tour of Denali Therapeutics, taking a sneak […]
SOLD OUT: Dive in with DOER
Visit the Deep Ocean Exploration and Research (DOER) facility where underwater robotics, submersibles, and subsea systems are designed, engineered, built, and tested before being deployed on missions around the world. Learn about the type of work the vehicles do and the kinds of people who use them. Please Note: DOER is family friendly but closed-toed, […]
SOLD OUT: The Natural Wonders of Glen Canyon Park
Join the California Native Plant Society Yerba Buena tour to explore Glen Canyon Park! Glen Canyon is one of San Francisco’s significant natural resource areas containing a variety of wildlife habitats and vegetation including native grasslands, riparian areas, forbs, shrubs, willows and other trees. At this time of year, we hope to see the spring […]
Dancing Radiation Robot!
In this virtual tour, we will provide a sneak peek of the UCSF Radiation Oncology Department. We will demonstrate a robotic-based linear accelerator used for radiation treatment of cancer and show how it delivers radiation (and dances)! What does a medical physicist do? What are their roles in radiology and oncology at hospitals? And how […]
Nanotechnology and Engineering for Medicine
Join us for a virtual tour of a UCSF Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences lab where researchers use nanoscale technologies to create new and improved ways to deliver medicine to target sites in the body and to enable the body to heal itself. The Desai Lab tackles important challenges in biomedicine, including research on diseases such […]
Rockin’ Around Stanford
Take a geological walking tour of Stanford’s campus! Meet geologists at Stanford and learn about some of the tools they use when they go “out to the field” to investigate rocks. Then we’ll head out on our walk, where we’ll spend time exploring the rocks that make up several of the buildings and sculptures on […]
Building Climate Resilience in the Bay Area
The Save the Bay habitat restoration team grows 30-40,000 native plants every year to restore tidal marsh around the Bay Area with two nurseries where the magic happens. Join us for a virtual behind-the-scenes tour of our nurseries and take a look at the life cycle of one of our native tidal marsh species. Then, […]
What’s Infecting Us? Laboratory Detection of Pathogens in the Current Era
Nearly all infectious diseases need laboratory testing for diagnosis and treatment. This event will cover the standards of clinical microbiology techniques, from traditional microscopy to the latest molecular diagnostics. From there, we will transition into the research laboratory to see how research on Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiologic agent of Chagas disease, is being used to […]