News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Tobacco products were pushed to a greater degree in African-American and Hispanic areas than white areas in Milwaukee, matching results in other cities, according to a study led by a UWM researcher.
UWM is helping preserve the artifacts and records of MacArthur “genius grant” winner Will Allen’s pioneering venture into urban farming.
The Virgin Islands Children’s Museum is using technology licensed from the UWM Research Foundation in a new display.
Dawn Erb, an associate professor of physics at UWM, led a team whose study could shed light on how galaxies form stars and grow.
The UWM team sent plasmids up on a rocket to discover how cosmic radiation affects DNA. The results were surprising.
A proposal from Alison Donnelly, associate professor of geography at UWM, was chosen from among hundreds submitted. Observations in Downer Woods will help calibrate observations by satellites, improving further research on the climate.
UWM’s David Kaplan is part of a research team that has shown that yet another prediction by Albert Einstein 100 years ago holds up, even in some extreme conditions in deep space.
Two Nicolet High School students have been recognized for their work alongside Michael Carvan, professor in UWM’s School of Freshwater Sciences.
An international team of researchers, including Paul Auer at UW-Milwaukee, has recently identified 48 genes associated with a woman’s predisposition to breast cancer – 34 that were implicated in previous research and 14 new genes.
Mordecai Lee is one of 15 featured authors who will be presenting and signing books at the 2018 Roosevelt Reading Festival at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York.
