News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
MILWAUKEE _ Mary T. Bunzel, a global leader in strategic asset management for digital manufacturing, has been named executive director of the Connected Systems Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Bunzel comes to the position with more than 30 years of experience, most recently at Intel and IBM, where she managed global teams responsible for […]
Widespread shortages of personal protective gear has left health care workers and others vulnerable to exposure to coronavirus. So when a Milwaukee coalition formed to try to produce face masks, Kyle Jansson and Lindsey Roddy eagerly joined the effort.
Kyle Jansson, director of the UWM Prototyping Center at Innovation Campus in Wauwatosa, is involved in a Milwaukee area coalition of industry, academia and health care to transform an industrial N95 respirator mask into a reusable proxy for medical workers and first responders. Jansson has documented the two-week journey so far with these images.
Pandemic-triggered shutdowns and the move to online classes campuswide put students who didn’t have a working laptop and couldn’t afford a new one in a bind. That’s when UWM staff leapt into action.
Under-detection of coronavirus illness leaves health officials without data needed to slow its spread, UWM epidemiologist Amy Kalkbrenner said. To address the problem, she’s is urging people who feel sick to report their symptoms through a confidential online survey she has developed.
Three programs may be able to help relieve financial hardship that many UWM students are experiencing as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Sandra McLellan, a professor of freshwater sciences, has been named a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, the honors leadership group within the American Society for Microbiology.
UWM researcher Marcia Silva has developed a filter to prevent phosphorus from fertilizer and manure from flowing into lakes and streams.
UWM researchers have found a way to predict and quantify damage from cyberattacks on utilities and created a framework for them be properly insured.
Russell Cuhel and Carmen Aguilar-Diaz, scientists at UWM’s School of Freshwater Sciences, will be featured on the MSNBC food series “What’s Eating America,” airing Sunday, Feb. 23.
