What’s in the water? Find out at Science Cafe

Recent news articles suggest strange goings-on within waterways across the country.

About Science Cafe

Science Cafe is a free educational event sponsored by UNMC and other groups to increase science literacy among young adults. Free pizza, available for the first 50 people, will be provided by Nebraska Coalition for Lifesaving Cures.

At Tuesday’s Omaha Science Cafe, learn how ’emerging contaminants’ can produce alarming effects at low levels, why this is different than what scientists have seen before, and perhaps most importantly, what can be done about it.

Who: Alan Kolok, Ph.D., director of the Aquatic Toxicology Laboratory at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and interim director of the Center for Environmental Health and Toxicology in the College of Public Health, will present "Biologically active compounds as pollutants: Strange goings-on in U.S. waterways."

When: 7 p.m., Tuesday, June 7 

Where: The Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St.