Past Science Cafes
The Science Cafe was the first science event series started by the Dahlonega Science Council in 2016. A list of some of our recent cafes can be found below.
Thank you to everyone who has shared in these great discussions about exciting and cutting edge science. Join us for more cafes in the future!
Past Science Cafes

Aug 26, 2024
Dr. John Dewey
Are You in Control? Origins of your Sense of Agency

Sep, 2024
Dr. Tom Diggs
What Was Once Lost – Rediscovering “extinct” Southeastern wildflowers

May 13, 2024
Dr. Patterson
Of Mice and Mammoths: What were ecosystems like on the Georgia coast 60,000 years ago?

Apr 15, 2024
Hannah Burch, Alex Christensen, and Kim Nguyen
Student Scientists

Mar 25, 2024
Dr. Erin Bush
Managing Objectionable Girls: Juvenile Delinquency and Eugenics in the Early 20th Century

Feb 26, 2024
Dr. Jeremy Olson
Transparent Wood: New applications of a sustainable building material

Jan 29, 2024
Dr. Dilina Perera
Glimpse into the Fascinating World of AI: A Physicist’s Perspective

Dec 4, 2023
Dr. Greg Feiden
Supermassive Black Holes: Monsters Lurking in the Shadows

Nov 20, 2023
Dr. Rachel Rogers
Forever Chemicals and Drinking Water: What you need to know

Oct 30, 2023
Dr. Evan Lampert
Gentle Joros: Living with North Georgia’s Most Famous Exotic Spiders

Sept 25, 2023
Dr. Neal Lin
Cautionary Tales of Improper Food Canning and Botulism

Aug 28, 2023
Dr. Claire Livingston and Kris Lange
From Grapes to Glass

May 22, 2023
Patrick Smallwood
100,000 Seeds, but Very Few Plants

May 8, 2023
James Costa
Radical by Nature

Apr 3, 2023
David R. Peoples
Machines and Soul Into a Musical Thought

Mar 20, 2023
Patrick Hightower
A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow: Disney, Nature, and Progress

Feb 13, 2023
Francisco Guzman
What’s the matter with the matter of the universe?

Dec 5, 2022
Linda Purvis
Which came first, chicken or hormones? Debunking the hormone myth.

Nov 7, 2022
Aimee Tomlinson
OLEDs, solar cells, and electrochromic materials, oh my!

Oct 17, 2022
Patrick Bunton
Renewable energies: solar wind and beyond

Sep 19, 2022
Jill Schulze
Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia sialis): The good, the bad, and a few things you might regret learning

Aug 15, 2022
Evan Lampert
No murders in the Peach State: Large wasps and hornets of North Georgia
