People

Faculty Members: Professors Boettcher, Nazin, and Pluth started Mad Duck Science Friday in 2011. They work closely with graduate students in the chemistry, physics, and biology departments to facilitate and grow the Science Friday program. The work conducted by their research labs and more details about the professors themselves can be found by clicking their images below.

Shannon Boettcher

George Nazin

Mike Pluth

Current Program Director(s): Mad Duck Science Friday is ultimately directed and coordinated via graduate students at the University of Oregon. They can be contacted for questions regarding the program.

Kayd Meldrum                                  Kira Thurman                                 Nick D’Antona

Director                                              Director                                            Director

kaydm@uoregon.edu                      kthurman@uoregon.edu              ndantona@uoregon.edu

Past Program Directors: These are the people who have made this program possible over the years.

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Grace Lindquist                                 Marc Foster

Grace Waddell

Amber Rolland

Austin Mroz

Jessica Fehrs

Aurora Ginzburg

Forrest Laskowski

Michael Nellist

Annie Greenaway

Matt Hartle

Matt Kast

Adam Smith

Lena Trotochaud

Special Thanks – Module Creators: In an effort to continually broaden local students’ scientific experience we recruit graduate students to make scientifically themed modules. The graduate students’ efforts are completely voluntary yet provide the program with four hours of novel material on a weekly basis. These graduate students then volunteer their Friday evening to host the module and instruct local students: