Sharing Science With Wisconsin
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 26 July 2021 Hi Everyone, The 1918-1919 Flu epidemic killed millions of humans. It also was the demise of the Golden Age of microbiology. The flu had defied prevention, treatments, cures and vaccines. Microbiologists had little better idea in May of 1919 of the nature of the pathogen than they had had …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 19 July 2021 Hi Everyone, The field corn is tasseling, the sweet corn is coming in, the orange daylilies are pretty much done, and the tomatoes are about to surge in their annual tsunami. Yep: we’re halfway through summer. And in about 7 weeks, on September 8, we will …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 28 June 2021 Hi Everyone, Our next meeting is today, Monday June 28 at 10am CT by Webex. I hope to see many of you then. We will then meet by Webex every other week through the rest of the summer: Mondays July 12 & 26 and …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 21 June 2021 Hi Everyone, Yesterday was the solstice, the day when the sun stands still in its progression northward in the sky, and starts back southward on its long slide to December. For people at the Terrace, had the clouds not got in the way, they’d have watched …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 14 June 2021 Hi Everyone, Happily, it’s mid-June. I’m on vacation up north over a 4-day weekend, and Science Alliance meetings have slipped into our summer schedule of meeting on occasionally, approximately every two weeks, as holidays and such permit. We will not meet on June 14. Our next meeting is …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 7 June 2021 Hi Everyone, We are finishing up our first week of maskless indoor shopping. The stockpile of masks in my car has dwindled to but a few. Outdoor gatherings again include greetings with hugs and handshakes. On the other hand, as of last Friday (June 4), in Wisconsin 48.2% of …
UW–Madison Science Alliance #Updater 24 May 2021 Hi Everyone, In normal years, the weeks between UW–Madison graduation and the end of the K12 school year were a programmatic paradox: while the rest of campus idled in an idyll, those of us who host field trips were in our frenziest time of year. The campus field trip …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 17 May 2021 Hi Everyone, Thursday’s announcement by the CDC removing its mask-wearing expectation for fully-vaccinated people in most conditions indoors and out has been hailed in at least two senses of the word: some praise the decision, others pellet it. The decision is going to be another chapter in the long, …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater 10 May 2021 Hi Everyone, This weekend was a celebratory double-header on campus with UW–Madison’s graduation on Saturday and Mother’s Day on Sunday. Several thousand grads became alums and may now refer to UW–Madison as their “alma mater.” and themselves as “alums”. The idea of the university as the nourishing mother, and …
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 …