Sharing Science With Wisconsin
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 3 May 2021 Hi Everyone, On Saturday I spent the morning of May Day walking with my family and a friend from St. Cloud MN around the campus of the University of Minnesota, the one in Minneapolis, the part on the east side of the Mississippi River. It’s complicated, walking around …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 26 April 2021 Hi Everyone, The end of April brings the penultimate week of classes as the academic year draws to a close. This week usually is among the busiest times for K12 field trips to campus, and it normally signals the ramping up of preparations for summer programs …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 19 April 2021 Hi Everyone, My son Will and I went for a bike ride on campus yesterday, stopping by the Biotech Center, then past Allen Garden and on to the lakeshore path out to Picnic Point. It was the first time I’d seen the bike racks on the …
12 April 2021 Hi Everyone, Congratulations to all the presenters and organizers who welcomed the public to explore science at UW–Madison through online or outdoor events this past weekend as part of the 19th Annual UW–Madison Science Expeditions campus open house. You all helped keep bright the light of hospitality in …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 5 April 2021 Hi Everyone, I don’t know if it’s a Universal truth, and it may not be true in certain galaxies far far away, but it certainly was true where I grew up: Hospitality is Reciprocal. If you want to be invited over to your friends’ place, you in turn …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 29 March 2021 Hi Everyone, It’s almost April and the vision for summer, and some hints for fall, are coming into view for outreach on campus. Since mid-March 2020, when the campus locked down, we have not been able to welcome the public to events, field-trips or venues on …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 22 March 2021 Hi Everyone, Tonight my kids were talking about a YouTube video that pointed out we’re now just as close to 2050 as we are to 1990. I countered that we’re actually closer to 2050. My son Will said yes, but the video was made last year. My …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 15 March 2021 Hi Everyone, I visited the Forum in Rome in October 2004. I was ready for the standing pillars, and the fallen ones, the paving stones. The blue sky astonished, the remarkably unremarkable Curia Julia Senate chamber built by Julius Caesar in 44 BC did not. While I …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 8 March 2021 Hi Everyone, We’re at about the one-year mark of the covid hammer coming down. Some things are looking favorable. In the US, rates of infection and of deaths are heading down. The speed of vaccinations is heading up. Other things are disconcerting. The new …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 1 March 2021 Hi Everyone, Ah, March 1. The first day of Meteorological Spring every year. The Opening Day of Week 2 of the Big Melt this year. The temperatures they are a-changing. When I was a kid, every February my Grandpa and Grandma Deutsch would go for …