Seeing a way toward better health decisions
COVID-19 communication in mass media often involves graphs. Min Sook Park’s research investigates how the public’s understanding of these graphs affects perceptions of the pandemic’s severity.
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The sewage sleuth
COVID-19 infection rates vary from location to location, which complicates health responses. Sandra McLellan researches how sewage can help track the virus.
NANOGrav finds first hints of low-frequency gravitational wave background
A group of UWM researchers is part of the collaboration of scientists that used 13 years of data to find what could be the first direct detection of low-frequency gravitational waves.
UWM researcher looks at how social media analysis can enhance polling
A close look at social media could not only provide a window into what voters consider the most important issues, it could also give insight that might improve political polling.
59 UWM scientists ranked in top 2% globally
Fifty-seven scientists at UWM are listed in a ranking of the top 2% of scientists in the world in a study by Stanford University.
UWM astronomer helps discover extrasolar ‘space weather’
If you wanted to look for life on planets around stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets, you would first locate the ones in the “Goldilocks zone.” That’s the area – not too close, not too far – at just the right distance from a star where a planet might have liquid water.
Psychology of choice leads to big gains in voluntary giving, study finds
Katherine Du, a UWM assistant professor of marketing, wondered if framing the act of giving as a choice between two options worked better than the traditional request – and, if so, why.
UWM research spotlights pandemic’s impact on the arts
A report from the Helen Bader Institute for Nonprofit Management at UWM found that 40% of arts nonprofits in Wisconsin have been forced to provide programs or services at a “severely reduced” capacity.
Building a better briquette: Conservation students study charcoal production in Kenya
In Kenya, a country where one in four people lacks access to electricity, charcoal is a staple fuel source. It’s light, small, easy to store, burns longer and hotter than wood, and is nearly smokeless. It’s also speeding up the country’s deforestation.
LIGO and Virgo detect most massive gravitational-wave source yet
Researchers have detected a signal from what may be the most massive black hole merger yet observed in gravitational waves, an event that created a behemoth 142 times that of the sun.