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2005

• 2005 UW Science Forum - Exploring Our World: Human Imprints—Lecture topics included radio-frequency identification, ocean micobes, the controversy of genetically engineered foods and preventing HIV/AIDS.
• UWTV streaming media presentations of 2005 UW Science Forum:
  • The Science Behind the Controversy over Genetically Engineered Foods
  • A Sea of Microbes: How Ocean Biology Shapes the Health of our Planet
  • RFID: The Next Big Little Thing
  • AIDS Treatment in Africa: Obstacles and Opportunities
  • Preventing HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections: What has Worked, What Hasn't, and Why?

2004

• 2004 UW Science Forum - Exploring Our World: Discovering the New Frontiers—Lecture topics included insights from penguins, nanotechnology, genomic health care and the changing Arctic.
• UWTV streaming media presentations of 2004 UW Science Forum:
  • Insights from Penguins on Environmental Variation
  • Biology IS Nanotechnology: How Our Cells Write, Read, Copy, and Store Genetic Information
  • Genomic Health Care: Promises and Challenges
  • The Changing Arctic: Exploration, Transformation and Impacts

2003

• 2003 UW Science Forum - Exploring Our World: The Scale of Discovery—Lecture topics included optoelectronics, "Can the Mind Just Be a Machine", bacteria as factories of the future and global warming. Site features details about the lectures, associated readings and Web resources.
• UWTV streaming media presentations of 2003 UW Science Forum:
  • Optoelectronics: Lighting the Way in the New Information Technology Age
  • Can the Mind Just Be a Machine?
  • Factories of the Future: Bacteria as Miniaturized Environmentally Benign Production Plants
  • The Science of Global Warming: How Will Climate Change in the Future?

2002

• 2002 UW Science Forum - Exploring Our World: Large and Small—Lecture topics included "Astrobiology & Armagedden", nanotechnology, beyond the genome and autism. Site features details about the lectures, associated readings and Web resources.
• UWTV streaming media presentations of 2002 UW Science Forum:
  • The Ends of the World: Astrobiology and Armageddon
  • Nanotechnology: Engineering the Fabric for Our Future
  • Beyond the Genome: Deciphering What All the Proteins Do to Make a Living
  • Autism: New Advances in Understanding and Treatment

2001

• 2001 UW Science Forum - Exploring Our World: Inside and Out—Lecture topics included reverse engineering robots from insects, new ideas on gravity and computer science. Site features lecture descriptions, speaker bios, reading lists and Web resources.
• UWTV streaming media presentations of 2001 UW Science Forum:
  • Movement in Biology: Insect Flight and Reverse Engineering
  • Testing Gravity in the Cosmos and in the Laboratory: Is a Revolution Under Way?
  • Computer Science: Still Crazy After All These Years

2000

• UWTV streaming media presentations of 2000 UW Science Forum:
  • Cosmic Recycling: We are Made of Stars
  • Volcanoes, Oceans and Life in our Solar System: A Fiber-Optic Telescope to Inner Space
  • Genomic Views of Human History