Aqua detectives
Freshwater scientists discovered a Lake Michigan mystery, and meticulously documented data to solve it.
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Milwaukee I-Corp launches pilot program aimed at nursing school
Students and faculty at UWM’s School of Nursing will have the opportunity to add entrepreneurial training to their professional experiences with supplemental funding from the Milwaukee I-Corps site. Milwaukee is one of dozens of I-Corps sites supported by the National Science Foundation that provide networking and training to move scientific discoveries from university labs to […]
UWM Research Foundation licenses novel cancer drug
A compound discovered by Alexander “Leggy” Arnold, a UWM associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, could provide an effective weapon against some difficult-to-treat cancers.
UWM Research Foundation licenses educational technology to Science Kinetics
Ohio-based Science Kinetics recently licensed computational fluid dynamics software developed by UWM doctoral candidate Tom Hansen.
Ourmazd to join advisory committee of the U.S. Department of Energy
Abbas Ourmazd, a UWM distinguished professor of physics, has been appointed to serve on the Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (BESAC) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
UWM receives state grant for entrepreneurship in health field
The I-Corps program based at UWM has received a $33,000 grant from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. to train entrepreneurial healthcare providers.
UWM gets ‘unprecedented opportunity’ to join national child brain study
The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study by the National Institutes of Health will follow the biological and behavioral development of more than 10,000 children beginning at ages 9 or 10, through adolescence and into early adulthood.
UWM scores a rare trifecta of grants
UWM has received three highly competitive awards from the National Science Foundation to fund research instrumentation. “It is quite unusual for an institution to receive multiple MRI awards in a single year, and it’s certainly unprecedented at UWM,” said Mark Harris, interim vice provost for research.
UWM’s energy conservation program for industry renewed through 2021
With backing from the U.S. Department of Energy, UWM has offered free energy assessments to nearly 100 small and medium-sized industrial companies in the last five years, making recommendations that could save them more than $7.7 million. The Energy Department has recently renewed a grant supporting UWM’s Industrial Assessment Center for another five years. The […]
UWM shines during Wisconsin Science Festival
Nearly 600 people turned out to watch UWM faculty amaze them with hands-on demonstrations and awe-inspiring ideas during the Wisconsin Science Festival in the Milwaukee area this weekend.