Congratulations to the following four PhD students—who each recently received a Dean’s Doctoral Fellowship—and their advisors. Hiba Alsghaier Advisor: Tian Zhao, associate professor, computer science Sadegh Kazemiyan Advisor: Habib Tabatabai, professor, civil & environmental engineering Zheng Luo Advisor: Yin Wang,… Read More

Congratulations to Yi Hu, associate professor, electrical engineering, who together with Christina Runge, professor in the Department of Otolaryngology & Communication Sciences at the Medical College of Wisconsin, received an exclusive license for Ascending Hearing Technologies LLC from the UWM… Read More

  The UWM Research Foundation Awards in March recognized researchers campus-wide who were inventors for patents issued in 2020. Congratulations to: Woo Jin Chang, associate professor, mechanical engineering, who was awarded the patent Contamination Detection Device and Method. Chang collaborated… Read More

The U.S. Department of Interior awarded Xiaoli Ma and Yin Wang $246,919 in March to develop nanofiltration membranes for desalinating water. Ma is an assistant professor, materials science and engineering, and Wang is an associate professor, civil & environmental engineering,… Read More

    Imagine the often grimy patches of earth under highway overpasses transformed to green spaces that help clean our drinking water source, store water after heavy rains, and provide a space for public agencies to grow trees. For their… Read More

UWM was recently represented at a national-level discussion on energy. Engineering doctoral student Farah Nourin joined U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm for a U.S. Department of Energy roundtable March 8 on how the DOE’s Industrial Assessment Centers (IACs) are… Read More

Spraying away the COVID-19 virus Konstantin Sobolev, professor, civil & environmental engineering, was featured in UWM Research, the university’s flagship research magazine. The article discusses Sobolev’s vision and work to create a coating that would, for the first time, accomplish… Read More

With boost from NSF, Chang’s clean water sensors head to industry Woo Jin Chang, associate professor, mechanical engineering, was awarded $59,767 from Baker Manufacturing in Evansville, Wis. to develop and test a prototype of a heavy-metal sensor. The goal is… Read More

Xiao Qin, professor, civil & environmental engineering and director of UWM’s Institute for Physical Infrastructure and Transportation, has co-authored a new textbook that addresses the key elements of effective transportation engineering and policy decisions based on highway crash data analysis…. Read More

A recent UWM mechanical engineering graduate is being honored as the top Army ROTC cadet in the nation. Douglas Machkovech, who graduated in December 2020, is the first-ever member of the Golden Eagle Battalion to receive this honor, according to… Read More