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UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu Monday 3 April 2023  Hi Everyone, This past Thursday was one of the best days every year:  it was the date of the release of the Timetables and Maps and of the Exhibit Guide for UW Science Expeditions April 14-16.   Three days, two dozen venues, four …

UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu  Monday 27 March 2023  Coming Up This Week and This Coming Month 1.  The UW–Madison Science Alliance meets Mondays at 10:00 am by Zoom.  Our next meeting is today, Monday, March 27. The Zoom link for the spring meetings of Science Alliance will continue …

UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu Monday 20 March 2023 Hi Everyone,  The students are back from Spring Break, the temperatures are above single digits Fahrenheit, and today is the Vernal Equinox.  Life is accelerating here at 42 degrees north latitude as we enter one of the busiest …

 UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu Monday 13 March 2023 Hi Everyone,  This Monday morning every year we rediscover that Daylight Saving Time cuts both ways.  It’s great to have the sun go down an hour later in the evening, but dealing with a delay in the dawn’s …

UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu Monday 6 March 2023 Hi Everyone,  The earlier sunrises are making it easier to roust outa bed these days.  Hearing the raspy call of sandhill cranes (The Pterodactyls of Our Ptymes) is the aural harbinger of spring now that Canada geese tend …

 UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu Monday 27 February 2023 Hi Everyone,  Wednesday is March 1, and with an optimism founded more in defiance than in fact the date stands tall as the beginning of meteorological spring.  It’s also the start of what are among the three busiest …

 UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu Monday 20 February 2023 Hi Everyone,  It was a somber Saturday for many of us on at least two fronts.  The Carter Center announced that former President Jimmy Carter “had decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice …

UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu Sunday 13 February 2023 Hi Everyone,  Last Monday I described how I consider February 4 through February 15 to comprise the 12 Days of the Wisconsin Idea, with February 4 being the anniversary of the proposal by Governor Scott Walker in 2015 …

  UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu Sunday 5 February 2023 Hi Everyone,  Eight years ago yesterday, on the morning of Wednesday February 4, 2015, the tweets hit the streets that Governor Scott Walker’s budget proposal included stripping the Wisconsin Idea from the statutory mission of the University of Wisconsin …

 UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu Monday 30 January 2023 Hi Everyone, On behalf of the UW–Madison Science Alliance, we are delighted to invite you to participate in the 21st Annual UW–Madison Science Expeditions on April 14-16, 2023. UW Science Expeditions is UW–Madison’s annual campus-wide science open house: it’s …