Sharing Science With Wisconsin
Explore the Unknown! For November 10, 2021 Hi WN@TL Fans, Since at least the time of the mythical Daedalus, humans have sought to go higher to see farther and more clearly. While Daedalus and Icarus flew to flee more than to see, the exuberant Icarus was among the …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater For 8 November 2021 Hi Everyone, The events this past Wednesday reminded me that in some sports such as football, basketball and baseball, a key part of excellence in performance is for one player to distract, to divert, to misdirect, to fake out another player — usually a player on the opposition. …
Explore the Unknown! For November 3, 2021 Hi WN@TL Fans, While driving my son Will to hockey practice the other day, the flashing yellow pedestrian-crossing lights on Monroe Street at Trader Joe’s sparked us to start chatting about how traffic lights and street markings have changed over my lifetime. Then in the ricochet …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater For 1 November 2021 Hi Everyone, Michael Wines writing last week in the NY Times reported the University of Florida blocked three professors from working with a group bringing a lawsuit to overturn the state’s new law restricting voting rights. The core of the claim by the university is that as an employer …
Explore the Unknown! For October 27, 2021 Hi WN@TL Fans, A Bomb Cyclone roared ashore the West Coast on Sunday, washing out the California Ironman in Sacramento, drenching Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, and dumping 16 inches of rain on Mount Tamalpais in Marin County. Inland, the level of the Lake Oroville reservoir, which …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater For 25 October 2021 Hi Everyone, Here and now, at the midpoint of the fall term of 2021—the fourth semester in the gauntlet of covid—is an apt time to highlight the regenerative work of inviting young people to advance the science outreach component of the public service mission of their land-grant university. …
Explore the Unknown! For October 20, 2021 Hi WN@TL Fans, It’s mid-October, the time when the cornucopia of the gardener, the farmer, and the forager runneth over with the fall harvest. The fruits of the vine and the work of human hands fill our cellars and larders, our wine bottles and canning jars. This plenitude …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater For 18 October 2021 Hi Everyone, The announcement last week by Chancellor Blank that she will be leaving UW–Madison next year to become the president of Northwestern University means that the UW System will be filling two of its pinnacle positions in 2022: president of the System, and chancellor of …
Explore the Unknown! For October 13, 2021 Hi WN@TL Fans, The use of animals by people at the University of Wisconsin for teaching and research may extend back to 1866 when, as the newly-designated Morrill Land-grant College for Wisconsin, the UW established the University farm in the area west of the President’s House. Seventeen years later, …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater For 11 October 2021 Hi Everyone, On Saturday I had the pleasure of welcoming to the Biotechnology Center a group of 26 4-H youth and adult volunteers from Langlade and Lincoln counties (Tomahawk, Antigo and Merrill) for a field-trip organized and led by my Extension 4-H colleague Holly Luerssen. I also had …