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Just Announced: Smart USA will showcase a new vehicle at the 2010 Alt Vehicle Expo as a part of the 2010 Conference.  Stay tuned for more updates on the Conference by joining our email list.

Energy Hub members: Please join us our weekly meeting at 6pm on Wednesdays in the Memorial Union!  New members and visitors are always welcome.

Please take a few seconds to complete our brief Conference Opinion Survey to help us plan the 2010 event.  

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A Discussion with David Blume
Friday, April 30, 2010
7:00pm, Room 180 Science Hall

Co-Sponsored by: Energy Hub
and our friends at Town and Country RC&D

Join us afterward for discussion
on the Memorial Union Terrace!

Students attend free. $10/carload donation suggested for non-UW community.

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Energy Hub’s friends at Powered Green have placed 40 Powered Green stickers* around UW-Madison campus.

Snap a photo of a sticker and upload it to Powered Green’s Facebook page and win cool Earth Day eco-friendly gear!

*editor’s note: Energy Hub does not endorse vandalism

On March 25 and March 26, UW-Madison will host Dr. Gavin Schmidt, a high-profile NASA climate scientist and co-founder of the RealClimate.org blog, which has become a major voice for science in climate debates.

Energy Hub members have an exclusive opportunity to have an informal lunch talk with Dr. Schmidt on Thursday, March 25. The brownbag lunch talk will take place from 12:30-2 pm at 2180 Mechanical Engineering. Please register by clicking this link.

Dr. Schmidt will also be giving a public lecture at 4 pm in 1106 Mechanical Engineering entitled “Communicating Climate Science: Tiptoeing through the Minefield.”

Speaker: TIM DONOHUE

March 16, 2010,
7:00-8:30 pm

MMoCA Lecture Hall

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THE FUTURE OF ENERGY SERIES

Thursday, March 11, 2010 – KEYNOTE LECTURE

“Power to Choose: How the Energy Choices
People Make Will Change Their Lives”
by Saul Griffith
7:00pm in the Pyle Center
(702 Langdon St – at Lake St)

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Madison Gas and Electric has arranged to give Energy Hub members a tour of the West Campus Cogeneration Facility on Friday, March 19, 2010.  Tour starts at 3:00pm.

The Co-Gen facility is a state-of-the-art natural gas-fired generation station, completed in 2005.  Learn more about how the CoGen plant works online, or by visiting the plant and seeing for yourself on the March 19 tour.

Sign up for the tour is CLOSED.

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Energy Hub, the UW-Madison chapter of the American Nuclear Society (ANS), and the UW-Madison Center for Business, Environment and Social Responsibility have teamed up to bring a special lecture to the UW campus.  Join us on March 9 to learn about Joseph M. Shuster’s “Roadmap to Energy Independence”.

Joseph M. Shuster
“Energy Foolishness to Energy Independence”

7:00pm, March 9, 2010
Morgridge Auditorium, Grainger Hall
UW-Madison School of Business
975 University Avenue, Madison WI 53706

*refreshments served at 6:45pm

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We received the following email from our colleagues at the MIT Energy Club. This is a great opportunity and we encourage UW students to take advantage of it!

Dear students and researchers,

The application process for presenting at the Friday Energy Showcase of the MIT Energy Conference is still open and the deadline for submitting an abstract has been postponed to February 3rd.

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Remember the fun days of science fairs as a kid? Now you can relive those days with the opportunity below. This message comes from Alicia Jackson, Director of the Student Leadership Center at the UW College of Engineering:

Donna Cutler-Landsman, the gifted and talented resource coordinator for two Middleton-Cross Plains area elementary schools is in the process of planning Science Fairs for these schools to be held the evenings of March 11, 2010 and April 12, 2010. Donna is looking for university students to attend the science fairs either to do presentations, have exhibits, or both.

If you would like to do some outreach to elementary school students and/or exhibit at these science fairs  - the time commitment would be from approximately 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. both nights.

Please email Alicia Jackson, ajackson@engr.wisc.edu, if you are interested and available and she can connect you to Donna.