Evinrude supports UWM’s School of Freshwater Sciences
Two new graduate fellowships at the UWM School of Freshwater Sciences will be supported by BRP USA, which makes powersports vehicles and propulsion systems.
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New fountain doubles as experiment for UWM water research
A fountain and green space at the Greenfield Avenue and First Street intersection will beautify the neighborhood while cleaning the environment.
Gravitational waves detected from 2nd pair of colliding black holes
UWM physicists are part of an international team that has detected gravitational waves for a second time.
5 potential drugs of the future incubated at UWM
New drugs under development by UWM scientists, who are working through the Milwaukee Institute for Drug Discovery, could eventually change millions of lives.
UWM’s Petto earns a ‘Friend of Darwin’ award
Andrew Petto, senior lecturer in the UWM Department of Biological Sciences, received a Friend of Darwin Award from the National Center for Science Education. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to advancing the teaching of evolution and climate science. A pioneer in evolution literacy, Petto helped advance education standards in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and helped local […]
UWM physicists share in Special Breakthrough Prize
UWM researchers are among those being honored for the detection of gravitational waves in space, a discovery announced earlier this year. The international group of more than 1,000 contributing scientists and engineers won the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Founded by Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, Yuri and Julia […]
UWM undergrads show their research muscle
More than 250 UWM students from across disciplines presented results of their research on April 29 at the annual symposium sponsored by the UWM Office of Undergraduate Research. The projects included oral and poster presentations – and even a dance performance – on topics as diverse as the AIDS virus in green monkeys, tiny houses […]
Split-second imaging sheds light on biology’s grand questions
UWM researchers used a groundbreaking experiment to observe molecular changes with unprecedented detail and speed.
UWM researchers create a better way to find out ‘when’
UWM physicists have created a machine-learning algorithm that improves the accuracy of timing estimates by a factor of up to 300.
Uncloaking the chemistry of life
UWM researchers Marius Schmidt and Jason Tenboer harnessed X-Ray Free Electron Laser technology and became the first people to witness proteins changing in real time.