Year: 2020

UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater   21 December 2020   Hi Everyone,   What a day, and what an evening, for astronomical delights in the heavens.    Every year we get a winter solstice here (it was 4:02 this morning CST), the day when the sun sets furthest in the southwest, and then resumes it trek northward, tracing the …

  UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater   14 December 2020   Hi Everyone,   On November 10, 1942, following the British victory at El Alamein and three days into the Allied invasions of North Africa, Winston Churchill growled words of flinty optimism:  “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, …

UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater   7 December 2020   Hi Everyone, In June 1991 I arrived on campus as a Biotechnology Outreach Specialist for the Biotech Center and for Cooperative Extension.  This was during the bovine growth hormone controversy, and I soon received some eye-opening advice, especially for a plant pathologist:  “Always remember, never forget, every dairy operation …

UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 30 November 2020 Hi Everyone, It’s the end of November.  Tomorrow begins December and also signals the start of meteorological winter.  After our summer of discontent, perhaps this will be made glorious winter by the lights of rising vaccines.  In any case, it may well be, to borrow from Wisconsin-born Laura Ingalls Wilder, The …

UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater   23 November 2020   Hi Everyone,   It’s Thanksgiving week, usually the occasion of our national frenzy to travel over the river and through the woods by sleigh or sledge, or by planes, trains or automobiles, to gather with family and friends and to thank goodness for Pete Rozelle and the nationally televised games of …