On a bone-chilling night in late January, a capacity crowd of roughly 400 people packed the main auditorium at First Unitarian Society on Madisonâ??s west side.
The man everyone came to see was selected by Time magazine in 2006 as one of the worldâ??s 100 most influential people. Heâ??s in regular contact with the Dalai Lama. His work has made him a veritable rock star in the world of neuroscience.
Yet UW-Madison researcher Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D., known simply as “Richie” to friends and colleagues, seemed to genuinely enjoy taking questions from the public just as much as he might from scientific colleagues.