UWM engineering student helps track COVID-19 in wastewater

A student in UWM’s College of Engineering & Applied Science is taking part in sewage-testing research that tells the story of COVID-19 in the Milwaukee community. Melissa Schussman, a master’s student in Civil & Environmental Engineering, works in the laboratory …

Sung working with Massachusetts General Hospital on NIH award

The National Institutes of Health, through Massachusetts General Hospital, has awarded Yongjin Sung, associate professor, mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering, $45,000 for a study on the next generation of medical X-rays. Sung will work on a simulation framework for realistic, …

Welcome Xeufeng Bao, visiting assistant professor, biomedical engineering

The Department of Biomedical Engineering welcomes Xeufeng Bao, visiting assistant professor. Bao’s research interests include: human motor control, rehabilitation robotics, neuromusculoskeletal dynamics, and exoskeletons. Most recently, Bao completed his post-doc research at Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine, at …

D’Souza awarded a 3-year grant from NSF for research on 4D-Flow MRI

Congratulations to Roshan D’Souza, associate professor, mechanical engineering, who was awarded a three-year, $298,500 National Science Foundation grant to support his research to advance the newest generation of MRI technology. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is rapidly evolving; 4D MRI adds …

Yu on WUWM: New Milwaukee company working to treat wounds more effectively

Smartphones and artificial intelligence could be used to help people’s wounds heal faster. Last week, Zeyun Yu, professor of computer science and biomedical engineering, and Sandeep Gopalakrishnan, assistant professor, UWM College of Nursing and Dr. Jeffrey Niezgoda, a physician and …