Science Alliance

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater 15 February 2021     Hi Everyone,   We have just endured the coldest nights of the winter so far, as low as -18 last Tuesday and -10 on Valentine’s Day.   On the brighter …

  UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater 8 February 2021     Hi Everyone,   Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were both born on February 12, 1809.  In Illinois public school children get a day off for Lincoln’s birthday, but …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater 1 February 2021     Hi Everyone,   As the old saw goes, “We value what we measure, and we measure what we value.”   Every year the National Science Foundation compiles the Higher …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater 24 January 2021 Hi Everyone,   This evening millions of Packer fans in Wisconsin are channeling the angst The Tin Man expressed as Dorothy departed Oz:  “Now I know I have a heart, because it’s …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater 18 January 2021   Hi Everyone,   The sea change for science in public policy continues at the federal level as President-elect Biden announced Eric Lander as his chief science advisor and raised the position for the first time …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater 11 January 2021 Hi Everyone, Starting last Wednesday afternoon we’ve been dealing with both a coup and covid.  As Pat Remington noted with the opening slide of his WN@TL talk on January 6 on “Covid-19: …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater 4 January 2021 Hi Everyone, Happy New Year to all! Two weeks ago many a telescope was pointed towards Jupiter and Saturn for their Great Conjunction.  Some 411 years ago this January 7 Galileo …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater   21 December 2020   Hi Everyone,   What a day, and what an evening, for astronomical delights in the heavens.    Every year we get a winter solstice here (it was 4:02 this …

  UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater   14 December 2020   Hi Everyone,   On November 10, 1942, following the British victory at El Alamein and three days into the Allied invasions of North Africa, Winston Churchill growled words of flinty …

UW-Madison Science Alliance Updater   7 December 2020   Hi Everyone, In June 1991 I arrived on campus as a Biotechnology Outreach Specialist for the Biotech Center and for Cooperative Extension.  This was during the bovine growth hormone …