News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The rise of smart technologies in manufacturing plants can be overwhelming for small- and medium-sized operations. The Connected Systems Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has created a solution.
A UWM faculty researcher has been awarded two federal grants to further study of a compound he sourced from a bacterium that shows promise for controlling some crop diseases with the same efficacy as the human antibiotic.
Young people have experienced the greatest percentage increase in opioid overdose deaths but are often resistant to the influence of public health campaigns. UWM associate professor Xiaoxia Cao is exploring what can work.
Priya Premnath, an assistant professor at UWM, has found that an existing anti-cancer drug known as UC2288 can be repurposed to help repair bones, a discovery that could lead to a potential noninvasive treatment.
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.
