Sharing Science With Wisconsin
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 1 February 2021 Hi Everyone, As the old saw goes, “We value what we measure, and we measure what we value.” Every year the National Science Foundation compiles the Higher Education Research & Development Survey. For fiscal year 2019 the report came out late Friday afternoon (https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf21313). UW–Madison again ranked …
For January 27, 2021 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 go.wisc.edu/240r59 By Zoom only, beginning at 7:00pm Central. If …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 24 January 2021 Hi Everyone, This evening millions of Packer fans in Wisconsin are channeling the angst The Tin Man expressed as Dorothy departed Oz: “Now I know I have a heart, because it’s breaking.” As my Mom warned, “Losing hurts worse than winning feels good.” She would know: she was a …
For January 20, 2021 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 go.wisc.edu/240r59 By Zoom only, beginning …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 18 January 2021 Hi Everyone, The sea change for science in public policy continues at the federal level as President-elect Biden announced Eric Lander as his chief science advisor and raised the position for the first time to cabinet level. Closer to home, Andrea Palm of Wisconsin will be the new Deputy Secretary at the …
For January 13, 2021 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 go.wisc.edu/240r59 By Zoom only, beginning …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 11 January 2021 Hi Everyone, Starting last Wednesday afternoon we’ve been dealing with both a coup and covid. As Pat Remington noted with the opening slide of his WN@TL talk on January 6 on “Covid-19: The Pandemic, Public Health, and Politics,” the two are intertwined. The competing worldviews of what we know, how we know …
For January 6, 2021 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 go.wisc.edu/240r59 By Zoom only, beginning …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 4 January 2021 Hi Everyone, Happy New Year to all! Two weeks ago many a telescope was pointed towards Jupiter and Saturn for their Great Conjunction. Some 411 years ago this January 7 Galileo pointed at Jupiter a 20x telescope built by his own hand. Through it he saw for the first time three …