Science & Technology
Dan Egan named Brico Fund Journalist in Residence at UWM’s Center for Water Policy
Dan Egan, an environmental journalist and author of the “The Death and Life of the Great Lakes,” has been named the Brico Fund Journalist in Residence at the Center for Water Policy in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Freshwater Sciences.
TechEd Frontiers offers short-term learning opportunities to fill skills gap
UWM is addressing the need for “upskilling” by launching TechEd Frontiers, a workforce development learning platform that offers online, on-demand pathways, or courses, that can advance people in high-demand jobs.
Undergrad’s research focuses on fish-fry staple yellow perch
Emma Kraco was always interested in biological sciences in elementary and high school. “I loved looking for bugs, looking at tiny things up close. It just made sense to get interested in water, especially fresh water. It’s absolutely teeming with life all the time.”
UWM physicists make molecular movies of a biological process of energy conversion
Many organisms use sunlight to fuel cellular functions. But exactly how does this conversion of solar energy into chemical energy unfold?
UWM-sponsored Lake Sturgeon Bowl celebrates its 20th year
The quiz competition has raised knowledge of and spurred interest in freshwater and ocean science among high school students across the Midwest.
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.
State launches dashboard for COVID-19 data found in sewage
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’
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
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
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.