Sharing Science With Wisconsin
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 …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater Monday 24 October 2022 Hi Everyone, With the Wisconsin Science Festival successfully in the books, we look towards the coming months and the continuing cadence of annual science outreach events. In the waning weeks of 2022, the 4-H Fall Forum runs on November 4-6 in Wisconsin Rapids. On Wednesday December 21 the inaugural Science Solstice …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu Monday 17 October 2022 Hi Everyone, On Saturday I had the pleasure of welcoming a group of 40 youth and their accompanying adult volunteers from UW–Madison Division of Extension Waukesha County to campus to visit the Geology Museum, the Physics Museum, the …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu Sunday 9 October 2022 Hi Everyone, What an autumnal display has been in play today, with yellow-clad ash trees on Adams Street forming a Golden Way. This evening the full moon is lighting up the night, and the next few days are …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater Monday 3 October 2022 Hi Everyone, Sometimes, serendipity suffices. On Friday Joao Dorea of Animal and Dairy Sciences sent the happy news that he could give the PLATO Frontiers in Life Sciences talk on October 5, a slot that had come open at short notice due to the dominos effects of …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater Monday 26 September 2022 Hi Everyone, Last week I was grateful to commemorate the 128th anniversary of the Sifting & Winnowing statement that expresses the commitment of UW–Madison to the freedom of inquiry. Such occasions are also opportunities to note that our values and even our missions evolve. If the university had …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu For 29 August 2022 Hi Everyone, As August draws to a close the sunrise comes later, making it easier to get a longer night’s sleep. The students have moved back into the neighborhood around Adams & Garfield, and we’re all gearing up …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu For 22 August 2022 Hi Everyone, Visitors to a house tend to be welcomed to and to come in through the front door, especially first-time visitors. But some visitors become friends, and if you’re lucky that is especially true of your neighbors. …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater For 15 August 2022 Hi Everyone, This morning’s serendipities included this tweet featuring the work of Diana Hess, Dean of the School of Education. The story mentions how Dean Hess started her career in education in 1979 as a high school social studies teacher in Downers Grove, Illinois. As the son of …
UW–Madison Science Alliance Updater To subscribe to this group, send an email to allianceall+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu For 1 August 2022 Hi Everyone, This past Friday the third and final session of Grandparents University wrapped up for the summer of 2022. Each year GPU is for me an unsurpassed experience in sharing science because I get to interact with …