This summer, the UWM Planetarium presents a new live virtual presentation, Dodging Doom, a sizzling scientific blockbuster aimed at inspiring interest and conversation about Earth’s defenses against potentially cataclysmic asteroid impacts. Last year, as people around the globe were preoccupied …
Alexander “Leggy” Arnold, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry has been named director of the Milwaukee Institute for Drug Discovery at UWM. The MIDD was established in 2011 to promote basic research related to new and improved drugs and to …
A rare disorder called Timothy syndrome causes severe heart malfunction, and most people diagnosed with it don’t survive beyond childhood. It is caused by a single gene variant that can also cause autism, so it provides a unique window into …
How do you tackle climate change, ease food insecurity, promote biodiversity, and foster a sense of local community, all at the same time? Daniel Oladokun-Dybowski says to plant a garden. Oladokun-Dybowski is the founder of Isa’s Garden Charities , an …
Growing up in South Carolina, Seresa McDowell developed an interest in science that led to her starting a premed major in college. While she decided she didn’t like the hospital part of the work, she did really like working as …
Dorit Peled and Kristin Siegel have never met to face-to-face, but they’ve cooked together, sung together, and introduced each other to their families. And they did it all in Hebrew. Siegel is a student in UWM’s Hebrew language program. She …
In mid-November, 1966, in the small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, two young couples fled the local woods, claiming they’d seen a terrifying creature. They recounted their story to the sheriff and reported that the entity looked human in …
For the first time, researchers have confirmed the detection of a collision between a black hole and a neutron star. In fact, the scientists detected not one but two such events occurring just 10 days apart in January 2020. The …
