Year: 2021

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater – May 10, 2021

UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater   10 May 2021     Hi Everyone,   This weekend was a celebratory double-header on campus with UW–Madison’s graduation on Saturday and Mother’s Day on Sunday.  Several thousand grads became alums and may now refer to UW–Madison as their “alma mater.” and themselves as “alums”.  The idea of the university as the nourishing mother, and …

How to Make Computers that Everyone Can Use; The Global “Dear Pandemic” Project; Reducing Wildfires Ignited by Power Grids

Explore the Unknown!   Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors.  If you’ve already registered for a previous WN@TL zoom this year, you’re good—you don’t have to register again. Continue to use the link found in the confirmation message Zoom sent you when you first registered. If you’ll be watching for the first …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater – May 3, 2021

UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater   3 May 2021     Hi Everyone,   On Saturday I spent the morning of May Day walking with my family and a friend from St. Cloud MN around the campus of the University of Minnesota, the one in Minneapolis, the part on the east side of the Mississippi River.  It’s complicated, walking around …

An Invitation to Mathematical Physics & Its History; Making Computers Everyone Can Use; The “Dear Pandemic” Project; Reducing Risks of Wildfires from Power Grids

Explore the Unknown!   Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors.  If you’ve already registered for a previous WN@TL zoom this year, you’re good—you don’t have to register again. Continue to use the link found in the confirmation message Zoom sent you when you first registered. If you’ll be watching for the first …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater – April 26, 2021

UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater   26 April 2021     Hi Everyone,   The end of April brings the penultimate week of classes as the academic year draws to a close.  This week usually is among the busiest times for K12 field trips to campus, and it normally signals the ramping up of preparations for summer programs …

John Smith’s 1616 Map of New England; An Invitation to Mathematic Physics & Its History; Making Computers Everyone Can Use

Explore the Unknown! Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors.  If you’ve already registered for a previous WN@TL zoom this year, you’re good—you don’t have to register again. Continue to use the link found in the confirmation message Zoom sent you when you first registered. If you’ll be watching for the first time, …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater – April 19, 2021

UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater   19 April 2021     Hi Everyone,   My son Will and I went for a bike ride on campus yesterday, stopping by the Biotech Center, then past Allen Garden and on to the lakeshore path out to Picnic Point.  It was the first time I’d seen the bike racks on the …

Insights into Covid Vaccine Development; A 1616 Map of New England (4 yrs before the Pilgrims…); An Invitation to Mathematical Physics & Its History

  Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors.  If you’ve already registered for a previous WN@TL zoom this year, you’re good—you don’t have to register again. Continue to use the link found in the confirmation message Zoom sent you when you first registered. If you’ll be watching for the first time, please register …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater: April 12, 2021

    12 April 2021     Hi Everyone,   Congratulations to all the presenters and organizers who welcomed the public to explore science at UW–Madison through online or outdoor events this past weekend as part of the 19th Annual UW–Madison Science Expeditions campus open house.  You all helped keep bright the light of hospitality in …

Special Friday Night Edition: Challenges of Climate Change

9 April 2021 Explore the Unknown! *Check out UW Science Expeditions Open House online April 9-11 at science.wisc.edu/science-expeditions For the Special Friday Night Edition on April 9, 2021 Hi WN@TL Fans, In the late 1980’s I first learned from working with colleagues at PhytoFarms, an indoor hydroponic facility, the power of growing crops under higher-than-normal concentrations of …