Sharing Science With Wisconsin
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 16 November 2020 Hi Everyone, The presidential transition is a rare occasion that brings to the fore the question of which people and which principles will guide executive branch departments in a new administration. This year there’s a special focus on science agencies. As usual, the possible people and their personalities will be in …
Explore the Unknown! For November 11, 2020 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. If you’ve already registered for a previous WN@TL this fall, you’re good—you don’t have to register again. If you’ll be watching for the first time this week, please register here for the WN@TL Zoom. Hi WN@TL Fans, Today …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 9 November 2020 Hi Everyone, A crucial day, a pivotal week, a historic month, a coming new year of transitions—some foreseeable, others yet unknowable: it continues to be a ride to remember. I could use more sunny and 70 days in November. I hope you have been finding them a joy, too. Thanks again! …
Explore the Unknown! For November 4, 2020 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. If you’ve already registered for a previous WN@TL this fall, you’re good—you don’t have to register again. If you’ll be watching for the first time this week, please register for the WN@TL Zoom at https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrce2vrDwtHNBMv0FxIcmw56npNOhu831_ Hi WN@TL Fans, …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 2 November 2020 Hi Everyone, Two months done in the academic year, and only two months left in 2020, the Year of Ideal Visual Acuity. It’s all been a blur so far. The Badgers couldn’t play football this past Saturday, and at 22 covid positives by this past Friday one wonders how they’ll field …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 26 October 2020 Hi Everyone, In the past seven days the president attacked Anthony Fauci as “a disaster” and called other health-science experts “these idiots.” Scientists and science have been in the cross-hairs before, but at least in my lifetime rarely so vitriolically while a body count is rising so relentlessly. Science is the S in STEM, …
Explore the Unknown! For October 21, 2020 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. Register for the WN@TL Zoom at https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrce2vrDwtHNBMv0FxIcmw56npNOhu831_ Hi WN@TL Fans, Twenty-five years ago last week the public outreach program I lead at the Biotech Center moved from our old home in the Enzyme Institute at 1710 University …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 19 October 2020 Hi Everyone, Congratulations to the planners, presenters, hosts, audiences, participants and sponsors of the Wisconsin Science Festival Oct 15-18. Seven months since the closure of nearly all science & arts venues, and the cancellation of nearly all in-person events, the statewide Wisconsin Science Festival shifted to a hybrid model that included lots of …
Explore the Unknown! For October 14, 2020 Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. Register for the WN@TL Zoom at https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrce2vrDwtHNBMv0FxIcmw56npNOhu831_ Hi WN@TL Fans, After a lush, wet midsummer and a dust-dry August, the city trees & the country fields & the forest leaves are putting on a show of crimson and gold and …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 12 October 2020 Hi Everyone, Let’s see: where were we, this time last week? What a zoetrope. It was another good week to be attuned to the fine points of sensitivity, specificity, scale, speed, price, logistics, equitable distribution of goods & services, and rates of adoption of innovation in things like antibodies, assays and vaccines. …