News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The binary star system Gaia Black Hole 1 – consisting of a gold star that orbits a black hole – will be dubbed the UWM Star, and a proclamation will be read before the start of a talk by the researcher who identified it.
Nick Nelson began college as a mechanical engineering major, but soon realized it wasn’t for him. Not long after, he found university and career path that better suited his interests.
International student Pratyusava Baral was drawn to UWM to work with astronomers who helped detect gravitational waves.
Patrick Brady, director of the Leonard E. Parker Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics, was given the American Physical Society’s 2026 Richard A. Isaacson Award in Gravitational-Wave Science, announced Wednesday.
Ben Lorenz studies ripples in space called gravitational waves. The research could help shed light on the origins of the universe.
UWM Professor David Kaplan and graduate student Akash Anumarlapudi are part of an international team that made a startling discovery about a new type of cosmic phenomenon.
Once a month, grad students give a presentation at Anodyne Coffee to anyone interested in space, on topics ranging from comets to constellations, black holes to gravitational waves.
On Monday, the UWM planetarium will host a viewing party. And all this semester, it will host third-graders to learn about space and the solar system.
Jodi Cooley is executive director of the huge underground research facility in Canada where scientists from around the world are working on experiments to help better understand the building blocks of the universe.
Citizen scientists have provided important help to astronomers exploring the heavens, and now they are invited to take a more hands-on role.
