The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology co-sponsor the Chambana Science Café, a monthly seminar series that brings scientists to the public to talk about their research in an informal setting. Seminars take place on the first Wednesday of every month at 5:30 p.m. at Pizza-M (208 W. Main Street in Urbana, IL), and there is free pizza while it lasts. The first meeting of the semester will be next week on September 2, with a presentation by Sarah Brown-Schmidt, associate professor of psychology at Beckman Institute.