Topic: Forums

Return to Guyana: Birding as a Bridge in 2018

Merle Kindred will discuss her experiences working in Guyana, which is a birder’s paradise, with over 900 species available to birders with binoculars. Join Zoom Meeting:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83109664864?pwd=OVFDSW1GOGtNb0IvQlVDZ2o2OGl4QT09Meeting ID: 831 0966 4864Password: 348092One tap mobile+19292056099,,83109664864#,,1#,348092# US (New York)+13017158592,,83109664864#,,1#,348092# US (Germantown)Dial by your location:                   +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)    … Continue reading Return to Guyana: Birding as a Bridge in 2018

Zoom Forum: Machine Learning Used to Determine Best Medical Practices

An especially timely topic with the search for effective COVID-19 treatments, machine learning is another path towards a solution.  Patient-specific treatment requires determining which treatment has the best chance of success for an individual patient, based on all available information.  Machine Learning provides tools to help “learn” which treatment is most effective for a given … Continue reading Zoom Forum: Machine Learning Used to Determine Best Medical Practices

Forum: KUUF’s Draft Covenant

Unitarian Universalism is a covenantal, not credal religion.  KUUF’s Strategic Plan asked us to: explore, in partnership with the minister, a covenant of right relations.  The working group will lead a discussion of the Draft Covenant.  Join us as we continue this exploration as first presented by Paul Mitchell in the March 22nd service. KUUF … Continue reading Forum: KUUF’s Draft Covenant

Forum: Polyvagal Theory or How Stress and Trauma Work on Us

Understanding the neurobiology of stress and trauma may explain many of our physical and mental health problems.  Rich will show the ways we accumulate stress and how it affects our body, or behavior and emotions. Rich Featherly, a Behavioral Health counselor at Upper Great Lakes Family Health Center in Calumet, has visited us before to … Continue reading Forum: Polyvagal Theory or How Stress and Trauma Work on Us

How to Enjoy a More Sustainable Holiday Season

Forum.  The KUUF Green Sanctuary Group will show us ways to make traditional holiday activities more sustainable in terms of  gift giving and wrapping, holiday decorations, food preparation and party planning.  If you heard their exciting presentation this year about how to reduce our consumption of plastic,  You’ll enjoy what is expected to be a … Continue reading How to Enjoy a More Sustainable Holiday Season

The Release of Atomic Power

Forum.  Are humans able to change our ways of thinking and doing in regard to atomic and nuclear development?  What, if anything has changed in our collective thinking about atomic and nuclear development during our lifetime and our children’s lifetimes?

Youthhaiti

Forum.  The Marquette UU Congregation has committed to working with Youthaiti, a Haitian-led organization operating in rural parts of Haiti.  A multigenerational group will be traveling there to serve the people of Duchity in the spring of 2021.  In this forum, members from the Marquette UU “Helping Haiti 2021” team will describe Youthaiti work, background … Continue reading Youthhaiti