On the debut episode of Curious Campus, UWM’s new podcast about science, discovery and culture, we look at Mars exploration with guests Jean Creighton and Darian Dixon.
An international team of astronomers that includes one from UWM has discovered unusual radio signals that fit no currently understood variable radio source and could suggest a new class of stellar object.
UWM researchers trying to untangle the mystery of the eastern gray tree frog mating rituals found it hard to study in the pond. So they built their own.
They are inventors, innovators and mentors. The work by more than 4,600 UWM graduate students in 104 graduate degree programs drives the academic discovery in labs all across the campus.
Mikayla Walker is one of the student researchers studying fossils deposited along the Lake Michigan lakeshore from some 40,000 years ago, when the area was far different, made up of marshes and bogs.
The honor recognizes Ava Udvadia’s research into the genetics that allow healing of nerve damage, along with her efforts to encourage undergraduates to participate in that work.
Emma Kraco was always interested in biological sciences in elementary and high school. “I loved looking for bugs, looking at tiny things up close. It just made sense to get interested in water, especially fresh water. It’s absolutely teeming with life all the time.”
The 2021 edition of UWM Research magazine has launched online, detailing the work of dozens of faculty members, students and staff.
Amy Watson hopes her work contributes to development of policies that help keep people who don’t pose a major criminal threat out of jail.
A team led by Associate Professor of Nursing Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu is working to provide more and better support for Native American women after the trauma of sexual violence.