Sharing Science With Wisconsin
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu For 22 August 2022 Hi Everyone, Visitors to a house tend to be welcomed to and to come in through the front door, especially first-time visitors. But some visitors become friends, and if you’re lucky that is especially true of your neighbors. …
For 17 August 2022 Hi WN@TL Fans, Two weeks ago I was within a hundred miles of nicking the Arctic Circle. I was on dry land in a T shirt and shorts. Had I been within the same distance of the Antarctic Circle, I’d almost certainly be on water, perhaps ice, and would soon …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater For 15 August 2022 Hi Everyone, This morning’s serendipities included this tweet featuring the work of Diana Hess, Dean of the School of Education. The story mentions how Dean Hess started her career in education in 1979 as a high school social studies teacher in Downers Grove, Illinois. As the son of …
“Wednesday Nite @ The Lab” Public Science Seminar Wednesdays at 7pm CT Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison WI, or Stream at go.wisc.edu/240r59 For 10 August 2022 Hi WN@TL Fans, Last week in Homer, Alaska, I had the pleasure of watching fishermen filet halibut and salmon with an alacrity far beyond my surgical skills. …
“Wednesday Nite @ The Lab” Public Science Seminar Wednesdays at 7pm CT Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison WI, or Stream at go.wisc.edu/240r59 For 3 August 2022 Hi WN@TL Fans, Like Eve, my up-close interactions with snakes have been few and memorable. My Dad threw stones at a western diamondback …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu For 1 August 2022 Hi Everyone, This past Friday the third and final session of Grandparents University wrapped up for the summer of 2022. Each year GPU is for me an unsurpassed experience in sharing science because I get to interact with …
“Wednesday Nite @ The Lab” Public Science Seminar Wednesdays at 7pm CT Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison WI, or Stream at go.wisc.edu/240r59 For 20 July 2022 Hi WN@TL Fans, For the past three weeks, I’ve been working as part of the UW–Madison MIA Recovery Team searching in Belgium for …
“Wednesday Nite @ The Lab” Public Science Seminar Wednesdays at 7pm CT Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison WI, or Zoom at go.wisc.edu/240r59 For 13 July 2022 Hi WN@TL Fans, In the novel “My Side of the Mountain” a teen-aged Sam Gribley chopped and burnt out a dwelling by expanding …
Wednesdays at 7pm CT in room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison WI, or Zoom at go.wisc.edu/240r59 For 6 July 2022 Hi WN@TL Fans, Today is the 4th of July, “The Day We Celebrate” as Mark Twain (among others) put it. Twain celebrated the Fourth in London on at least three occasions: 1872, …
Wednesdays at 7pm CT in room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison WI, or Zoom at go.wisc.edu/240r59 For 29 June 2022 Hi WN@TL Fans, Yesterday I had the pleasure of taking my family to the site near Buysscheure, France where in August 2016 I participated in a UW–Madison-led mission to find and recover …