From Microsoft to MADtv, here are 11 UWM alums whose work you know
UWM alumni include many business executives and high-ranking public officials, such as the U.S. ambassador to Iceland, Luis Arreaga.
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UWM engineer builds device to show how blood flows when we think
UWM engineer Ramin Pashaie’s device could help answer a particularly puzzling question – how blood is directed to the brain to power thinking.
UWM sensor could make detecting Ebola as easy as spitting
Junhong Chen, a UWM professor of mechanical and materials engineering, will use a sensor platform he created to detect water contamination to make the low-cost virus sensor.
UWM study: Golden vehicle for drug delivery has hidden costs
A recent UWM study has found that while engineered gold nanoparticles are attractive for smart drug delivery, they come with a downside: great potential to disrupt a woman’s fertility.
Student entrepreneurs could change how athletes compete
The Student Startup Challenge provides funding and classroom support to help winners develop prototypes, mobile applications and business plans.
National Academy of Inventors and UWM announce NAI Fellow
Pradeep Rohatgi, UWM Distinguished Professor of Materials Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
Johnson Controls creates endowed professorship at UWM and UW-Madison
Renewable energy chemist Deyang Qu has been named as Johnson Controls Endowed Professor in Energy Storage Research.
UWM team the first to “see” atomic changes in proteins with an X-ray laser
What made it possible were the ultra-short X-ray pulses of a Free Electron Laser (XFEL).
NIH grant supports UWM research into treatment for asthma that may reduce side effects
The National Institutes of Health have awarded UWM chemist nearly $2 million to develop a new drug therapy for asthma that reduces the potential for adverse effects.