Journal Club

What is Science Policy Journal Club?

Journal clubs are informal discussions on a specific science policy topic lead by different CaSP members. If you are interested in attending or leading your own journal club (you pick the topic!), please sign up for our mailing list or check our events page to know when and where the next journal club will be held.

Upcoming Journal Clubs

There are no upcoming events.

Previous Journal Clubs

April 19, 2022

Presenter: Brittany Baur

Topic: Cryptocurrency and the environment

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March 23, 2022

Presenter: Chris Dade

Topic: What does “follow the science” mean?

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March 1, 2022

Presenter: Catalysts for Science Policy

Topic: Go Big Read Book Discussion

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  • Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

Jan 25, 2022

Presenter: Brittany Baur

Topic: Regulation of Social Media

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Dec 14, 2021

Presenter: Isabella Whitworth

Topic: WI marijuana policy

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Nov 16, 2021

Presenter: Emma Eisenbraun, Brittany Baur

Topic: Policy memo discussion: Green Gentrification

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Oct 19, 2021

Presenter: Marie Fiori

Topic: Policy memo discussion: Expanding Health Equity in Wisconsin Prisons and Jails through Access to Menstrual Products

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Sept 21, 2021

Presenter: Maia Gumnit

Topic: Brain-Machine Interfaces

This Journal Club will be held at 6 PM at Memorial Union Terrace. We will meet out front by the steps and then grab a table.

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August 17, 2021

Presenter: Tyler Peterson

Topic: Infrastructure Bill, Energy & Climate Change

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July 13, 2021

Presenter: Chris Dade

Topic: Federal science funding – US Innovation and Competition Act

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June 17, 2021

Presenter: Chris Unterberger

Topic: Balancing risks and rewards of personal genomics

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May 20, 2021

Presenter: Marie Fiori

Topic: Conservation efforts and Indigenous communities

Check out our Events Calendar for the Zoom link!

April 15, 2021

Presenter: Julie Kirsch

Topic: Intervening on perceptions of racial progress and implications for voting rights legislation

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March 18, 2021

Moderator: April MacIntyre

Topic: Book club discussion, Parkland by Dave Cullen

February 18, 2021

Presenter: Brittany Baur

Topic: Strategies to lower drug prices in WI

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December 17, 2020

Presenter: April MacIntyre

Topic: Biopiracy

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November 19, 2020

Presenter: Aaron Lowenstein

Topic: Struggles of undocumented students during the COVID-19 pandemic

October 15, 2020

Discussion moderator: Marie Fiori

Topic: Book club discussion, The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome by Alondra Nelson

September 17, 2020

Presenters: Chris Unterberger and April MacIntyre

Topic: School reopenings during the COVID-19 pandemic

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July 16, 2020

Presenter: Sam Anderson

Topic: Graduate student response to racism in academia

Article: Truong & Museus (2012) Responding to racism and racial trauma

June 25, 2020

Presenter: Sarah Anderson

Topic: The intersection of climate change, racial injustice, and COVID19

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May 21, 2020

Presenter: Chris Unterberger

Topic: Zoos in the age of COVID 19

Articles:

  • https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-22/oakland-zoo-animals-people-funding-shortage-coronavirus
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/world/europe/germany-zoo-coronavirus.html
  • https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/shy-eels-intl-scli-scn/index.html

April 16, 2020

Presenter: Laura Borth

Topic: Open Science in the Age of COVID 19

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Journal Club Review

March 26, 2020

Presenter: Allie Canales (Guest appearance by Amanda Hurley!)

Topic: Census 2020 (plus a small discussion on White House OSTP early career scientist panel opportunity)

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February 20, 2020

Presenter: Shannon Walsh

Topic: Domestic and International pain management strategies

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Journal club review

January 23, 2020

Presenter: Grant Hisao

Topic: 30 Meter Telescope (Scientists v. Indigenous Communities)

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January 17, 2018

November 15, 2017

October 18, 2017

September 20, 2017

August 16, 2017

  • Presenter: C.P. Frost
  • Topic: Challenges facing WI’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR)
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July 19, 2017

June 21, 2017

  • Presenter: Nimu Sidhu
  • Topic: Transational Education Policy and Standards
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