Encyclopedia focuses on ‘everything Milwaukee’
The ambitious 10-year effort will produce a comprehensive, carefully authenticated resource on the city.
Research
Will the real Godzilla please show up?
The human issues that are embedded in the stories – war, pollution, technology – make Godzilla a global cautionary tale.
UWM strategizes climate change policy for the Great Lakes
UWM’s Center for Water Policy convened a group of nationally renowned experts from the Great Lakes region.
‘Invisible Newcomers’ revealed in research on refugees
Refugees from Burma/Myanmar and Bhutan subject of newly published study.
At long last: A concrete that’s nearly maintenance-free
Scott Muzenski, a civil engineering graduate student, had been working on a new kind of high-performance concrete.
Protecting the most vulnerable from environmental risks
Early research experience inspired Ruth Etzel to pursue a career studying the environmental hazards impacting children.
Open Enrollment eroding Chapter 220, case study contends
Milwaukee’s 40-year-old Chapter 220 program is the oldest voluntary public school integration transportation program in the United States.
UWM engineer does pioneer study on green manufacturing of electric car batteries
UWM researcher Chris Yingchun Yuan is investigating the environmental sustainability of the next generation of electric car batteries.
UWM physicist researches ‘new gravity’
A compact star system has allowed the scientists to make the best measurements yet of the complex gravitational interactions in such a system.
UWM sturgeon for the Shedd
UWM supplied the Shedd Aquarium with the biological equivalent of 135 million years of Great Lakes ecosystem history in the form of 14 lake sturgeon.