The grant supports the UWM team’s aim to adapt the assistive arm to be useful to people with stroke, spinal cord injuries, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, as well as the elderly.
Food has a way of connecting people. To explore that, UWM’s Center for 21st Century Studies embarked on the Story Cart Project, in which graduate students and researchers traveled with a mobile cart to 27 Milwaukee locations to question strangers about food.
A new tool will better connect the Universities of Wisconsin with the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services to help streamline the state licensing process for health care workers.
Joe Hamann has been named the new executive director at UWM’s Connected Systems Institute.
Joe Hamann, an engineering and technology leader with diverse experience across the value chain, has been named executive director of the Connected Systems Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In this role, Hamann will partner with Wisconsin industries with the goal of creating the workforce of the future in advanced manufacturing. “I’m fascinated with everything […]
When UWM’s Engineering & Mathematical Sciences building opened in 1971, many of its 13 floors were dark and segmented into individual rooms. After a two-year renovation of the ninth and 10th floors, the new spaces, designated for research, are hardly recognizable.
Citizen scientists have provided important help to astronomers exploring the heavens, and now they are invited to take a more hands-on role.
Citizen scientists have provided important help to astronomers exploring the heavens, and now they are invited to take a more hands-on role. In their efforts to scour the universe for evidence of gravitational waves, scientists have enlisted the help of 15,000 volunteers who donated their private computers’ downtime in a citizen-science project called Einstein@Home. Begun […]
Experience a partial solar eclipse at a free viewing party on Saturday, Oct. 14, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The event is held between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., with peak visibility at about noon, in the Cunningham Hall parking lot, located at the corner of Cramer Street and Hartford Avenue. Because looking at the […]
UWM is offering a new master’s of public health degree track in nutrition and dietetics that will prepare graduates to take the exam needed to become a registered dietitian nutritionist, one of only two such programs in dietetics in the Milwaukee area.