UWM researchers launch online Encyclopedia of Milwaukee
UWM researchers launched the online Encyclopedia of Milwaukee in the summer of 2016. It now includes hundreds of entries about a wide breadth of topics.
Research
UWM professor studies how to keep the wheels turning
Brooke Slavens is helping develop a geared wheelchair — similar to a multispeed bike — that could reduce strain on inclines and in other areas where injuries are most likely to happen.
UWM historian finds history in Chicago city blocks
Block by block, the citizens of Chicago are making their city a safer, cleaner, happier place. UWM historian Amanda Seligman explores a neighborly phenomenon in her new book, “Chicago’s Block Clubs: How Neighbors Shape the City.” For more than a century, people of the Second City have banded together to form block clubs, small organizations […]
Sociologist identifies science-oriented religious group in US politics
In American politics, the conservative right has tended to be more religious, while the liberal left tends to embrace science. But, UWM sociologist Timothy O’Brien says, there’s a third group out there.
UWM researcher attracts more funding for Ebola sensor
A global information and communications technology company has made a grant to support development of low-cost virus sensors by Junhong Chen, UWM distinguished professor of mechanical engineering. Huawei Technologies, based in Shenzhen, China, supports research of advancements in world-changing civil technologies. Chen’s graphene-based sensor platform, originally created to identify trace amounts of water contaminants, can […]
Researchers seek solutions to the world’s most difficult problems
Cancer and obesity are difficult problems on their own. Combined, they create a fiendishly complex problem. To tackle it, UWM prof Scott Graham and colleagues are borrowing a method originally created to solve national security problems.
UWM partners with Milwaukee to improve beach warnings
A new buoy built by UWM researchers will improve water-quality warnings and help Milwaukee’s health department better monitor conditions at city beaches.
The arc of UWM’s wave, from Parker to Brady and beyond
A century after Albert Einstein’s gravitational wave prediction, meet the UWM scientists who helped prove him correct, his doubts wrong, and cemented the school’s status as a premier research institution.
New mural to tell migrant workers’ Milwaukee stories
UWM artist Raoul Deal and a team of high school and university students honor the pioneering advocacy group United Migrant Opportunity Services and its organizers.
Student researcher explores effect of parents’ criticism
Parental criticism can lead to an overvalued sense of responsibility — a key feature of obsessive compulsive disorder — student researcher Haley Branback found.