News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Water SYS-STEM, a program involving UWM’s School of Freshwater Sciences, Water Council affiliates and local technical colleges, is introducing students to careers in the water industry – and to the science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines.
Abbas Ourmazd, a UWM distinguished professor of physics, has been appointed to serve on the Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (BESAC) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
“One of the most prolific scholars in terms of her publication activity,” Laura Peracchio focuses on marketing research that benefits consumer welfare and quality of life.
When Rust-Oleum needed some answers, UWM researchers did a different type of paint-by-numbers work.
Everyone knows about Pompeii and its fate at the hand of Mount Vesuvius. But recent UWM grad Taylor Layton is helping uncover an equally remarkable site also buried by the eruption.
Shama Mirza, director of UWM’s Shimadzu Laboratory for Advanced and Applied Analytical Chemistry, has received a $230,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a rapid and noninvasive urinary test for the detection of a particular childhood kidney disease. The disease, obstructive uropathy, strikes newborns and infants blocking the flow of urine to […]
Junhong Chen, a UWM distinguished professor of mechanical and materials engineering, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. Election to NAI fellow status is accorded to academic inventors whose technology has made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society. Fellows are named inventors on […]
A pioneer in the field of traumatic brain injury research, UWM alum Michael McCrea has found a way to combine his passion for competitive sports and his love for science.
The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study by the National Institutes of Health will follow the biological and behavioral development of more than 10,000 children beginning at ages 9 or 10, through adolescence and into early adulthood.
Danielle Cloutier and Shelby LaBuhn, both doctoral students in the School of Freshwater Sciences, will soon head to Washington, D.C., to see how the research they do translates into law.
