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Tuesday, January 26, 2021

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NANOGrav finds first hints of low-frequency gravitational wave background

By UWM NewsJanuary 11, 2021Science & TechnologyScience

NANOGrav finds first hints of low-frequency gravitational wave background

By UWM NewsJanuary 11, 2021Science & TechnologyScience

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.

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State launches dashboard for COVID-19 data found in sewage

By Laura OttoDecember 11, 2020Science & TechnologyWater & Environment

The statewide surveillance project is a collaboration between UWM’s School of Freshwater Sciences, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and the Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene.

UWM astronomer helps discover extrasolar ‘space weather’

By Laura OttoDecember 9, 2020Science & TechnologyScience

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. 

UWM physicists to work with Argonne National Lab on a breakthrough battery material

By Laura OttoDecember 1, 2020Science & TechnologyScience

The U.S. Department of Energy recently awarded funding to a startup launched by two UWM professors for a collaboration with the Argonne National Laboratory in suburban Chicago on research that will help their company commercialize the material.

New maps show what lies beneath the water in the Milwaukee harbor

By Laura OttoNovember 24, 2020Science & TechnologyWater & Environment

The maps are guiding current restoration efforts that could help get the city’s harbor removed from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s list of “areas of concern” and stimulate the local economy.

Building a better briquette: Conservation students study charcoal production in Kenya

By Sarah VickerySeptember 30, 2020Science & TechnologyScience

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.

UWM engineer awarded funding to build a ‘smart’ robotic assistive arm

By Laura OttoSeptember 30, 2020Science & TechnologyEngineering

Mohammad “Habib” Rahman has been awarded a three-year, $1.49 million grant for research on a robotic assistive arm that would allow users to feed themselves, open doors, pick up an object and perform other activities that are essential for independence.

New technique makes movies of molecular machines at work

By Laura OttoSeptember 29, 2020Science & TechnologyScience

Researchers, including four at UWM, have developed a method of making three-dimensional “molecular movies,” using an imaging technique called single-particle cryo-electron microscopy.

LIGO and Virgo detect most massive gravitational-wave source yet

By Laura OttoSeptember 2, 2020Science & TechnologyScience

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.

Regents approve bachelor’s program for UWM’s School of Freshwater Sciences

By Gemma TarlachAugust 20, 2020Science & TechnologyWater & Environment
A man lifts a sample of water into a ship.

A pioneer in water-focused research and the largest institution of its kind on the Great Lakes, the School of Freshwater Sciences at UW-Milwaukee will offer its first undergraduate program beginning in Fall 2021.

Renewed funding fuels study of sustainable nanotechnology

By Laura OttoJuly 7, 2020Science & TechnologyWater & Environment

Rebecca Klaper’s research studies how nanoparticles – tiny man-made bits of material found in a multitude of products – interact with aquatic organisms, often in harmful ways.

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