Midwest Community Engagement

If you are concerned about the defunding of scientific agencies and programs and are in a position to travel, please consider joining the hashtag#StandUpForScience rally on 7 March 2025. The main event will be in Washington, DC, but other cities across the nation will be hosting rallies, too.

For more information: Local SUFS Events

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Local SUFS Events Stand Up for Science is officially supporting rallies in Washington DC and 31 other cities around the country. This means that a confirmed site leader-backed by our core team-is actively organizing a public event with SUFS volunteers. If your city isn't listed as a site of an official SUFS rally, you can still make your... View this on STAND UP FOR SCIENCE >

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Ana Madani, MS
Medical/Regulatory Writer/Editor
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I am speaking at the event in Detroit, talking about science as a critical driver of economic success and prosperity. It's a story that needs to be told more often. Anti-science people simply don;t seem to care about the tremendious human cost of their actions but I find they can sometimes be persuaded by economic arguments - for example, the administration bringing back scientists it fired because they provide essential economic services. 

David

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David J Corliss, PhD
Principal Data Scientist, Grafham Analytics
Director, Peace-Work - a Data for Good NGO
Plymouth MI
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Hello Ana

I had talked at last year's SUFS in Chicago as an illegally-fired NSF program director. 

This year's event organizers asked me to speak again, but I will be traveling to Washington DC for a science leadership workshop.

It may be too late, but if anyone here in the Chicago area is interested and has a compelling story, let me know and I could pass it on.

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Karl Rockne
University of Illinois Chicago
Riverside IL
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