Sharing Science With Wisconsin
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater For 1 November 2021 Hi Everyone, Michael Wines writing last week in the NY Times reported the University of Florida blocked three professors from working with a group bringing a lawsuit to overturn the state’s new law restricting voting rights. The core of the claim by the university is that as an employer …
Explore the Unknown! For October 27, 2021 Hi WN@TL Fans, A Bomb Cyclone roared ashore the West Coast on Sunday, washing out the California Ironman in Sacramento, drenching Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, and dumping 16 inches of rain on Mount Tamalpais in Marin County. Inland, the level of the Lake Oroville reservoir, which …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater For 25 October 2021 Hi Everyone, Here and now, at the midpoint of the fall term of 2021—the fourth semester in the gauntlet of covid—is an apt time to highlight the regenerative work of inviting young people to advance the science outreach component of the public service mission of their land-grant university. …
Explore the Unknown! For October 20, 2021 Hi WN@TL Fans, It’s mid-October, the time when the cornucopia of the gardener, the farmer, and the forager runneth over with the fall harvest. The fruits of the vine and the work of human hands fill our cellars and larders, our wine bottles and canning jars. This plenitude …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater For 18 October 2021 Hi Everyone, The announcement last week by Chancellor Blank that she will be leaving UW–Madison next year to become the president of Northwestern University means that the UW System will be filling two of its pinnacle positions in 2022: president of the System, and chancellor of …
Explore the Unknown! For October 13, 2021 Hi WN@TL Fans, The use of animals by people at the University of Wisconsin for teaching and research may extend back to 1866 when, as the newly-designated Morrill Land-grant College for Wisconsin, the UW established the University farm in the area west of the President’s House. Seventeen years later, …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater For 11 October 2021 Hi Everyone, On Saturday I had the pleasure of welcoming to the Biotechnology Center a group of 26 4-H youth and adult volunteers from Langlade and Lincoln counties (Tomahawk, Antigo and Merrill) for a field-trip organized and led by my Extension 4-H colleague Holly Luerssen. I also had …
Explore the Unknown! For October 6, 2021 Hi WN@TL Fans, Birds, being flighted and far-sighted, seem to be the envy of humans. Daedalus escaped and Icarus died emulating the feathered ones. Humans with acuity & foresight are dubbed hawk-eyed or eagle-eyed. Travelers-by-land stew in jealousy when we measure distances “as …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater For 4 October 2021 Hi Everyone, We often look to light and sight as the leading metaphors for education. We have the all-seeing Eye of the Numen Lumen in the UW–Madison seal. “Fiat Lux” is the motto of the University of California. The Lamp of Learning is ensconced on …
Explore the Unknown! For September 29, 2021 Hi WN@TL Fans, It is late September, the fall harvest season is upon us, and all around us The Land yields. Sixty-one years ago during his Travels With Charley road trip, John Steinbeck barreled across autumnal Wisconsin on his way from Chicago to Sauk Centre MN to pay his respects to …