Metals smart enough to save gas
A UWM scientist invented a self-lubricating metal that increases fuel efficiency in cars, and he’s working with alumni and industry partners to bring the “super metal” to market.
Research
Grant will fund Freshwater Sciences survey of inner harbor
The largest grant from the Fund for Lake Michigan’s efforts to improve water quality is $190,000 to the UW-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences to conduct an extensive aquatic survey of the city’s harbor. UWM will work with the Department of Natural Resources, Army Corps of Engineers, Harbor District, Inc. and other stakeholders to advance harbor […]
New app tackles head trauma
The UWM App Brewery and Medical College of Wisconsin have created a free smartphone app that helps diagnose and track the treatment of head injuries among young athletes.
At the busy intersection of high-tech and the public’s health
Plant-based meat substitutes are available and eventually we will grow meat in a test tube – but will the public buy them?
Biologist helps find malaria parasite in white-tailed deer
A UWM biologist was among researchers who recently found malaria parasites in North American deer. Emily Latch, associate professor of biological sciences, was part of a team of led by the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) who found that the parasite Plasmodium odocoilei was present in up to 25 percent of white-tailed deer along the […]
UWM astronomer helps identify a new cosmic searchlight
When astronomers located and identified the source of a fast radio burst, or FRB, they became able to employ the distinctive characteristics of the signal measure the material lying between the object and Earth. David Kaplan, an astronomer at UW-Milwaukee, is a member of the team that searched through data from other telescopes and also […]
Do your research: Summer’s the perfect time
More than 150 UW-Milwaukee undergrads participate in a campus summer research experience and whether paid or not, the consensus is, it’s worth it.
Rohatgi named fellow of Indian Institute of Metals
Pradeep Rohatgi, materials science and engineering, was elected to the Fellowship of the Indian Institute of Metals (IIM). He will be honored on March 12 at the IIM Delhi Chapter in India. Rohatgi currently serves as a Wisconsin Distinguished Professor and the director of the UWM Composite Center at UWM. He serves on committees of […]
Followers of Mafia will find this a book they can’t refuse
UWM professor publishes a new book on Italian Mafia literature and finds themes that go far beyond the romanticized characters of “The Godfather.”
Doctoral student in right place at right time for gravity waves
UWM doctoral student Alex Urban was at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory in Louisiana at the historic moment when a gravitational wave was detected, confirming Einstein’s theory.