Sharing Science With Wisconsin
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater For 27 September 2021 Hi Everyone, Today is my neighbor’s 12th birthday. Even in ordinary times it is an extraordinary milestone. But in this second year of living covidly, turning 12 is more than a milestone: it is momentous. It is not just a rite of passage, for it …
For September 22, 2021 Hi WN@TL Fans, My major professor at UW–Madison, plant virologist Robert W. Fulton, was an avid trout angler who tied flies and stalked streams in western Dane County and in the hollers of the Driftless in pursuit of the wiley salmonid. I asked him once about how he …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater For 20 September 2021 Hi Everyone, As I led with last week, I am fond of noting that in our work in science outreach, “Hospitality Counts, and Venue Matters.” The phrase is especially apt this week for me and my colleagues at the Biotech Center because today, …
Explore the Unknown! For September 15, 2021 Hi WN@TL Fans, Had he had them—neutrinos and IceCube, that is—imagine what antipodal pairings Dickens might have carved out with his pen on paper, when in his A Tale of Two Cities mode. Superlatives flow in extremis. One of the tiniest particles—barely having any mass—detected …
UW–Madison Science Alliance #Updater For 13 September 2021 Hi Everyone, I am fond of noting that in our work in science outreach, “Hospitality Counts, and Venue Matters.” We start this new academic year with two big changes to the Science Alliance weekly meetings at 10am. They involve both hospitality and venue. 1. This …
Explore the Unknown! For September 8, 2021 Hi WN@TL Fans, A Happy Note: WN@TL goes hybrid both with zoom and with in-person presentations beginning on September 8 at 7pm CT with a special event at the Discovery Building featuring Uwe Bergmann of Physics. The Discovery Building is at 330 N. Orchard …
Explore the Unknown! Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. If you’ll be watching for the first time, please register for the WN@TL Zoom at go.wisc.edu/240r59 If you’ve already registered for a previous WN@TL zoom this year, you’re good—you don’t have to register again. Continue to use the link found in the confirmation message …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 30 August 2021 Hi Everyone, Last Tuesday August 24 on the UW Now livestream Chancellor Blank provided an update on the return to campus this fall. While she didn’t specifically mention youth programming on campus, which has been suspended since mid-March 2020, she did report that campus will be as fully open as …
Explore the Unknown! Please share this missive with your friends & neighbors. If you’ll be watching for the first time, please register for the WN@TL Zoom at go.wisc.edu/240r59 If you’ve already registered for a previous WN@TL zoom this year, you’re good—you don’t have to register again. Continue to use the link found in the confirmation …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 23 August 2021 Our next Science Alliance meeting is Monday August 23 at 10am CT by Webex. Here’s the link. Liz Jesse will lead the meeting. We will resume weekly meetings in person in Room 1360 Genetics Biotech Center on Monday September 13, all at 10 am. Note: …