Year: 2022

What Can Fruit Flies Teach Us About the Persistence of Memory?; Physical Therapy Management of Osteoarthritis in the Hip and Knee

Come Explore the Unknown!      By Zoom:  at go.wisc.edu/240r59.   In Person: Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison. 7pm Central   For 16 March 2022       Hi WN@TL Fans,   What a week.  Daylight Saving Time on Sunday, Pi Day on Monday, The Ides of March on Tuesday, St. Patrick’s Day tomorrow, …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater – March 14, 2022

UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater For 14 March 2022 Hi Everyone, Mid March oozes with transitions, migrations, and changes. Robins, redwing blackbirds and sandhill cranes–the pteradactyls of ptoday–again course across our skies. Just this past week, the ice opened on Monona Bay on Thursday, UW Spring Break began on Friday afternoon, the campus mask mandate ended on …

The Impact of Salt on Wisconsin’s Freshwaters; What can Fruit Flies Teach Us About the Persistence of Memory?; Physical Therapy Management of Osteoarthritis in the Hip and Knee

Come Explore the Unknown! By Zoom:  at go.wisc.edu/240r59.   In Person: Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison. 7pm Central   For 9 March 2022      Hi WN@TL Fans,   Salt is ionic and iconic and ironic.  To be the salt of the Earth is to be good to the core, but to salt the …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater – March 7, 2022

UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater   For 7 March 2022 Hi Everyone, Last week the #Udpater missive featured the appreciation of Bernice Durand written by Evelyn Malkus.  This week I have the pleasure of following with words of gratitude for Sharon Dunwoody, who died on February 4. Reporter, writer, researcher, teacher, professor, administrator:  Sharon Dunwoody excelled at many positions and in many roles …

Fusion Energy, Solar Flares, and Black Holes in the Wisconsin Plasma Physics Lab;The Impact of Salt on Wisconsin’s Freshwaters;What Can Fruit Flies Teach Us About the Persistence of Memory?

Come Explore the Unknown!      By Zoom:  at go.wisc.edu/240r59.   In Person: Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison. 7pm Central   For 2 March 2022       Hi WN@TL Fans,   March 1 is the optimist’s and the meteorologist’s first day of spring. It is always astonishing when the calendar rolls over to …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater – February 28, 2022

UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater    For 28 February 2022 Hi Everyone, It has been a week to remember, when war & invasion have rocked our world and our worldview.  In such wrenching times, we may look for signs of the great and the good to inspire us, to reassure us, to move us ahead. Last …

Design, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: the Case Study of ‘Hello Loom!’;Fusion Energy, Solar Flares and Black Holes in the Wisconsin Plasma Physics Lab;The Impact of Salt on Wisconsin’s Freshwaters

Come Explore the Unknown!    By Zoom:  at go.wisc.edu/240r59.   In Person: Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison. 7pm Central For 23 February 2022       Hi WN@TL Fans, My grandmothers roped me in to the fiber crafts.  One taught me to knit with kneedles and showed me that not all purls come from …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater – February 21, 2022

UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater  To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu   For 21 February 2022 Hi Everyone, Back on Friday morning February 11, I had the pleasure of leading a group of 11 STEM-teachers-in-training on a walk-about tour of central campus.  They’re all pursuing their master’s degree in teaching here at UW–Madison …

Protecting Groundwater from Leaching Soil Contamination;Design, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: the Case Study of ‘Hello Loom!’

Come Explore the Unknown!      By Zoom:  at go.wisc.edu/240r59.   In Person: Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison. 7pm Central   For 2022.02.16       Hi WN@TL Fans,   If the soil is akin to the thin skin of the Earth, then the groundwater is the land’s lifeblood coursing beneath. In many …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater – February 14, 2022

UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater  To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu For 14 February 2022 Hi Everyone, If Yogi Berra were still here, he might be reminding us that the pandemic ain’t over til it’s over, whether we’re over it or not. Or as the longer version of the aphorism goes, it ain’t …