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UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater Monday 23 January 2023 Hi Everyone, In preparing for my talk on the Xenos Paradox coming up this week at Wednesday Nite @ The Lab, I’ve been impressed with some of the places dedicated for science engagement that various universities have built over the years to engage the public on campuses. For …

UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater Monday 9 January 2023 Hi Everyone, After the end-of-the-year holiday hiatus, we begin to resume here in midwinter the planning and preparations for the series of events that invite our friends and neighbors from around Wisconsin to come explore science at their public land-grant research & extension university.  For example: On …

UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu Monday 19 December 2022 UW Science meetings are on holiday hiatus.  We next meet on Monday January 9 at 10 am in hybrid mode, both in Room 1120 Wisconsin Energy Institute and by zoom. Coming Up This Week and This Coming Month 1.  The UW–Madison …

UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu Monday 12 December 2022 Hi Everyone, I think of the winter solstice as the shortest day of the year, a day to celebrate our sinusoidal bottoming out, the date to mark when the sun starts to linger longer in the late afternoon. …

UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu Monday 5 December 2022 Hi Everyone, December brings the start of winter, the bottoming-out of our six-month stretch of shortening daylength, and the end of the academic semester. On Sunday University Bay hosted migrating arctic swans and coots and, most surprising to me, laggard robins.  Some …

UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu Monday 28 November 2022 Hi Everyone, I hope your Thanksgiving holiday was splendid, with good food, even better wine, and the bestest conversations. I returned yesterday from my Thanksgiving week road-trip to New England with my daughter to visit family and to …

 UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu Monday 21 November 2022 No meeting today for Science Alliance. We meet next on November 28 at 10am. Have a Happy Thanksgiving! === Coming Up This Week and This Coming Month 1.  The UW–Madison Science Alliance meets on most Mondays at 10:00 am by Zoom. …

UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu Monday 14 November 2022 Hi Everyone,  This time four years ago we were commemorating the centennial of the end of World War I and, with a few notable exceptions, we were continuing to not remember the middle of Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919-1920. Out …

UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu Monday 7 November 2022 Hi Everyone,  It’s a tumultuous time of year.  We are in the meat of the fall semester.  This weekend the gales of November blew most of the remaining leaves from the trees, leaving us views of Shakespeare’s bare choirs.  Saturday …

UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu Monday 31 October 2022 Hi Everyone,  Sometimes, serendipity happens. Saturday evening at the Community First Champion Center near Appleton a hockey dad from another team saw the “I Like 4-H” sticker on my red UW fleece and introduced himself to me.  With …