News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
UWM biologist Filipe Alberto recently was awarded $2.8 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to create and maintain a kind of “seed stock” for breeding kelp with genetic traits best suited for mass production for bioenergy.
UWM won the sixth annual Lakefront Marathon University Challenge for the fourth time in six years.
Wayne Larrivee, best known as the voice of the Green Bay Packers, will become the play-by-play voice of televised UW-Milwaukee men’s basketball games, starting with the 2017-18 season.
A group of UWM physicists has done collaborative research with one of the newly named Nobel laureates in chemistry, Columbia University’s Joachim Frank. Frank, along with Jacques Dubochet and Richard Henderson, won the prize for their development of cryo-electron microscopy, a method of imaging that renders detailed 3-D pictures of the smallest units of life, […]
When it comes to bike commuting, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee faculty and staff have proved they can go the distance. UWM faculty and staff rode more than 69,000 miles to work from May to September 2017 and won the 2017 MKE Town-Gown Showdown. They rode against competing teams from Alverno, Froedtert Health, Marquette, Milwaukee Area Technical […]
Gravity-wave astronomy is giving us a dramatically new way to look at our universe – which is why LIGO – the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory – was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics. Learn more about LIGO’s discovery and its scientific impact at Patrick Brady’s talk “When Black Holes Collide: Gravitational Waves and the […]
The Freedom of Expression and Civil Discourse Series at UWM opened Sept. 27 with a panel discussion that was itself a model of civil discourse.
Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist Clarence Page will moderate a panel discussion on free speech rights and responsibilities at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Sept. 27.
Michael Zimmer, associate professor at the UWM School of Information Studies and director of the Center for Information Policy Research, will participate in a four year study of the ethics of “big data,” funded by a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The project, PERVADE (Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research), brings together […]
The African American Faculty & Staff Council is scheduled to present its first two scholarships at a gathering Tuesday, Sept. 26, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the Union Art Gallery.
