Do bans curb texting while driving?
Two UWM economists have found that laws banning text messaging on mobile devices while driving are associated with fewer traffic fatalities.
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Klein and KBS Construction donate $250,000 to UWM’s Innovation Campus
UWM Michael R. Lovell announced a $250,000 gift from Dennis Klein and KBS Construction that will help grow the university’s novel research park.
UWM faculty dominate Milwaukee’s first TEDx event May 9
MILWAUKEE – Michael R. Lovell, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), will talk about innovation at Milwaukee’s first TEDx event. The event focuses on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Music), a blended-disciplinary approach to tackling social, economic and environmental challenges.. Lovell and five other UWM faculty members are among the 14 speakers at […]
Turning student brainstorms into businesses
UWM’s Student Startup Challenge, a campuswide competition for students, puts the focus on the earliest entrepreneurial stage – a product idea.
He’s all geared up for automotive manufacturing
When it comes to automobiles, don’t get Mitchell Crawford started – unless you’re prepared for a long discussion.
She achieved a master’s – and the ‘anti-desk job’
When Ciara Rahn chose a bachelor’s degree in geology, she did so because the physical science appealed to her – as did the fact that she would spend a lot of time outdoors.
UWM researchers create novel optical fibers
UWM researchers have found the first practical application of a Nobel-Prize-winning phenomenon that was proposed in 1958.
NSF supports early careers of UWM researchers
Dawn Erb and Arash Mafi have received Early Career Development Awards from the National Science Foundation.