Biotech Outreach Specialist
Biotechnology Center
Hometown: Dixon, IL
Tom Zinnen has been a Biotechnology Extension Specialist since 1991. He also served as a Congressional Science Fellow in 2000–2001, and he was on loan to the National Science Foundation from 2008 to 2010 as a speechwriter for the NSF Director. He leads BioTrek, the public outreach program of the Biotech Center and of the Division of Extension/Wisconsin 4-H. He is the emcee of the “Wednesday Nite @ The Lab” public science series on PBS Wisconsin. His favorite role is welcoming Wisconsinites to come experience science as exploring the unknown at their public, land-grant research university.