Congratulations to engineering undergraduate Levon Van Der Geest, who was selected as one of seven finalists in the eighth annual Kulwicki Driver Development Program from a national applicant pool of 54. The program honors the legacy of UWM alumnus and …
Zhen Zeng joined UWM’s Computer Science Department in March as an assistant professor. Her primary research focuses on AI-based solutions for securing the network and cloud environment. She also is interested in cloud networking, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity and computer science …
Imagine never having to clean your glasses again. An inventor at UWM’s College of Engineering & Applied Science has developed a self-cleaning coating that could be applied to commercial products, including eyeglasses, building glass and car windshields. Junjie Niu, Richard …
The Wisconsin Science State Olympiad State Championship drew more than 1,200 high school and middle school students to UWM April 1. Close to 40% of students and their families arrived a day early to tour campus, visit research labs, sit …
Former pit crew members and friends of the late Milwaukee NASCAR Hall of Fame member Alan Kulwicki (’77 Mechanical Engineering) shared memories at an event March 31 to mark the 30th anniversary of Kulwicki’s death. The event was held outside …
Experimental green technologies took center stage at the 13th annual Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Innovation Summit, held in March in Washington D.C. UWM was represented by Chanyeop Park, assistant professor of electrical engineering in the College of Engineering & …
In March, the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) recognized nine of the nation’s leading student researchers for their outstanding accomplishments in researching and promoting practices, principles and procedures that increase an industry’s energy saving efficiency and manufacturing productivity. Of these …
Congratulations to faculty members Konstantin Sobolev (left) and Pradeep Rohatgi (right), who received UWM Research Foundation Bridge grants that will support the commercialization of their inventions: spray-on protection for concrete and a stronger aluminum. Sobolev is a Lawrence E. Sivak …
In March, Ilya Avdeev and Brian Thompson received the second of five years of funding for leading UWM’s participation in the Great Lakes Region Innovation Corps Hub (I-Corps Hub). Avdeev is an associate professor, mechanical engineering, in UWM’s College of …
The nation is preparing for seismic changes in transportation and UWM secured a role at the table in February with a $1.67 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to advance research and education programs that address a specific …
