Sharing Science With Wisconsin
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe from this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu For 3 January 2022 Hi Everyone, Welcome to the new year! If 2020 was the Year of Visual Acuity, it seems 2021 went by in a blur, a historic astigmatism. January’s namesake Janus was the god for retrospection and prospection, for looking …