Next-generation factory opens on UWM’s campus
The Connected Systems Institute has launched its first industry testbed and production line, which will allow researchers and students to test and refine solutions to common manufacturing challenges.
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3 new UWM distinguished professors named
Karyn Frick, professor of psychology; Stuart Moulthrop, professor of English; and Simon Bronner, dean of the College of General Studies, received the designation, which recognizes their significant impact on, and contributions to, their fields of study.
Federal grant advances tool to evaluate home environment for people with disabilities
The pandemic has prompted an explosion of remote work. But for those with disabilities, working from home can be fraught with challenges. UWM researchers are helping create a tool to identify those problems.
UWM loses a devoted and beloved dean
Over and over in his long UWM career, Ron Perez was asked to accomplish necessary tasks that weren’t always glamorous, yet he dove in with enthusiasm, relished his colleagues and never said no. Perez, dean of the Zilber School of Public Health, passed away on Dec. 16 after several months of illness. He was 59.
State launches dashboard for COVID-19 data found in sewage
The statewide surveillance project is a collaboration between UWM’s School of Freshwater Sciences, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and the Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene.
UWM astronomer helps discover extrasolar ‘space weather’
If you wanted to look for life on planets around stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets, you would first locate the ones in the “Goldilocks zone.” That’s the area – not too close, not too far – at just the right distance from a star where a planet might have liquid water.
UWM physicists to work with Argonne National Lab on a breakthrough battery material
The U.S. Department of Energy recently awarded funding to a startup launched by two UWM professors for a collaboration with the Argonne National Laboratory in suburban Chicago on research that will help their company commercialize the material.
New maps show what lies beneath the water in the Milwaukee harbor
The maps are guiding current restoration efforts that could help get the city’s harbor removed from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s list of “areas of concern” and stimulate the local economy.
Dunn named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Peter Dunn, a UWM distinguished professor of biological sciences, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an honor given to AAAS members by their peers.
UWM faculty member delivers myth-busting advice through ‘Dear Pandemic’
Epidemiologist Amanda Simanek has banded together with colleagues nationwide to battle the misinformation about COVID-19 that’s been spreading like a virus on social media.