Year: 2022

UW Darwin Days:”Discovering the DNA Discovery Center: Collections-Based Research in Evolutionary Biology, Museum Science Communication, and Outreach”;”Protecting Groundwater from Leaching Soil Contamination.”; “Design, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: the Case Study of ‘Hello Loom!’”

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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 2/9/22    UW–Madison Darwin Days Special Wednesday Nite @ The Lab with Isabel Distefano from the Field Museum in Chicago   Hi WN@TL Fans,   DNA is a lot like an alphabet, I …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater – February 7, 2022

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UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater  For 7 February 2022 Hi Everyone, Over the weekend we marked the anniversary of the first classes held by the University of Wisconsin, on Monday February 5, 1849.  It’s of note to me for at least two reasons. First, the first classes weren’t college-level courses, but rather preparatory classes—basically, the high …

Climate Change and Agriculture:Mitigation Strategies for Dairy;Discovering the DNA Discovery Center:Collections-Based Research in Evolutionary Biology, Museum Science Communication, and Outreach;Protecting Groundwater from Leaching Soil Contamination;

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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 2/2/22             Hi WN@TL Fans, Going back at least as far as the Babcock butterfat test in 1890, or the establishment of Wisconsin’s Dairy Herd Improvement Association,  …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater – January 31, 2022

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UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater  To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu For 31 January 2022 Hi Everyone, Last Tuesday came the happy news that 13 UW–Madison scholars had been elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the organization which, among other things, publishes the journal Science.     Among the newly elected …

Update on the fast-moving field of electric cars;Climate Change and Agriculture:Mitigation Strategies for Dairy;Discovering the DNA Discovery Center:Collections-Based Research in Evolutionary Biology, Museum Science Communication, and Outreach;

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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 January 26, 2022             Hi WN@TL Fans, The “Historic Madison” Facebook page published a photo the other day of East Wash at the  Capitol Square from about …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater – January 24, 2022

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UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater  For 24 January 2022 Hi Everyone, Sometimes our work in outreach flows through mass media to touch in a small way a large number of people.  Other times, our interactions are face-to-face with but one or two or a few. If we’re lucky, we get to do both types of engagement.  If …

Having A Bone to Pick: The Ins & Outs of Reconstructing Dinosaur Anatomy;Update on the fast-moving field of electric cars;Climate Change and Agriculture:Mitigation Strategies for Dairy

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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 January 19, 2022             Hi WN@TL Fans, In my Morphology of Vascular Plants class at UW-Platteville, Professor Dziekanowski spent a few fleeting moments on extinct plants known only from …

Nitrogen & Ammonia:From the Industrial Revolution to a Future Nitrogen Economy;Having a bone to pick: The ins and outs of reconstructing dinosaur anatomy;Electric Vehicles & The Road Ahead

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Come Explore the Unknown!   By Zoom:  at go.wisc.edu/240r59.   In Person: Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison.   For January 12, 2022   Hi WN@TL Fans,   Puzzle me this:  How many ways can humans make electricity? For starters: Rubbing amber (‘electrum’ in Latin).  Walking across a carpet.  Piling layers of copper and …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater – January 10, 2022

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UW–Madison Science Alliance #Updater  To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu For 10 January 2022 Hi Everyone, Because of the surge in omicron, the annual Wonders of Physics shows originally scheduled for February 12, 13, 19 and 20, and the annual Physics Fair open house originally scheduled for February 12,  have been rescheduled for …

Genetic Diversity Matters: A Field Exploration of 695 Carrot Varieties;Nitrogen & Ammonia:From the Industrial Revolution to a Future Nitrogen Economy;

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Come Explore the Unknown!      By Zoom:  at go.wisc.edu/240r59.   In Person: Room 1111 Genetics Biotech Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison.   For January 5, 2022             Hi WN@TL Fans, In the summer between 4th and 5th grade my Grandpa Deutsch let me work with him on his vegetable garden in the …