Research

Education Technology Fee-funded projects announced

By UWM NewsMay 2, 2016

Here are the 2016-17 Education Technology Fee-funded one-time proposals: PantherFile Maintenance and Adobe Enterprise Cloud License (UITS); Large Format Color Printing for Students and UWM Campus Events Calendar (University Relations and Communications); Extend Online Tutoring (Panther Academic Support Services); Capturing Student Research & Dissertations through UWM Commons, increased allocation for subscriptions; Digital Resources – Ebooks (UWM Libraries). Also, UWM Open Textbook/OER Adoption Project […]

Dealing with sexism and gender issues in the classroom

By April 28, 2016Arts & Humanities

Teachers and parents are increasingly faced with questions from children about gender and sexuality – a new book edited by a UWM professor may help provide answers.

UWM researchers create a better way to find out ‘when’

By Laura OttoApril 27, 2016Science & TechnologyScience

UWM physicists have created a machine-learning algorithm that improves the accuracy of timing estimates by a factor of up to 300.

Stoffel, Smith represent UWM at national conference

By UWM NewsApril 26, 2016

Ginny Stoffel, associate professor of occupational science and technology, represented UW-Milwaukee in April at the annual American Occupational Therapy Association conference and expo in Chicago. The association’s president since 2013, Stoffel presented the Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lectureship – the highest academic scholarly award in the United States – to UWM’s Roger Smith, professor of occupational […]

Uncloaking the chemistry of life

By Laura OttoApril 20, 2016Science & TechnologyScience

UWM researchers Marius Schmidt and Jason Tenboer harnessed X-Ray Free Electron Laser technology and became the first people to witness proteins changing in real time.

Business Journal honors UWM’s research complex

By UWM NewsApril 18, 2016

UW-Milwaukee’s new Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Complex was named the 2015 Best New Development – Education last week in the Milwaukee Business Journal’s Real Estate Awards. Known as the KIRC, the building at Kenwood Boulevard and Maryland Avenue is home to laboratories, classrooms, offices and meeting spaces for three academic disciplines: physics, chemistry and the Environmental […]

Mayor declares UWM College of Nursing Day

By UWM NewsApril 15, 2016

Mayor Tom Barrett spoke at the Celebrating Community Impact event April 14, and presented College of Nursing Dean Sally Lundeen with a proclamation declaring UWM College of Nursing Day in Milwaukee. According to the mayor’s proclamation, the College of Nursing: Is celebrating a half-century of excellence as the backbone of Wisconsin’s nursing workforce as both […]

Zero energy use? Perhaps UWM can help with that

By April 15, 2016

Architecture students from UWM will join 32 other teams competing in the Race to Zero, April 16-17 in Denver. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Race to Zero is a design challenge to encourage college students to develop homes that are truly sustainable. The goal is to design a house that is so energy […]

10 ways UWM engineers improved Milwaukee and the world

By Laura OttoApril 12, 2016Science & TechnologyEngineering

As the school celebrates its 50th anniversary, here are 10 ways the College of Engineering & Applied Science has made the world greener, safer and more energy-efficient.

UWM computer scientists make history with innovation

By Marie RohdeApril 12, 2016Science & TechnologyComputer Science & Technology

Faculty and alumni look at how the College of Engineering & Applied Science’s partnerships have led to UWM’s impressive research reputation in disciplines from encryption to computation.