Science & Technology
Companies team up with UWM to conserve energy, cut costs
The Department of Energy-funded Industrial Assessment Center embeds UWM engineering professors and students in manufacturing plants, where they make recommendations that have helped manufacturing companies save $6.5 million to date.
Building a better way to supply energy
Microgrids developed by UWM engineer Adel Nasiri could make green energy more widely available and help prevent wide-spread power outages.
UWM’s green roofs provide important habitat for bees
Research done by Conservation and Environmental Science students shows UWM’s green roofs provide important habitat for bees.
UWM anthropologists excavate forgotten Milwaukee cemetery
When construction uncovers a long-forgotten cemetery, UWM anthropologists are called to preserve the bones and help identify the remains. Their work also enhances our understanding of how previous generations lived.
UWM creates free app to help families and libraries encourage children to read
UWM’s App Brewery and Waukesha County public libraries have developed a free app to help parents track the books they’re reading to their preschoolers. The app supports the popular “1000 Books Before Kindergarten” program offered by libraries nationwide.
UWM provides a tasty treat for fish-eating zoo animals: live prey
Fish-eating animals at the Milwaukee County Zoo now get an occasional treat, compliments of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The animals can hunt in their enclosures for live fish raised as part of aquaculture research at the School of Freshwater Sciences.
Milwaukee joins National Innovation Network
Five academic institutions in Milwaukee are joining forces to form a local site of the National Innovation Network that will recruit and train 90 entrepreneurial teams over the next three years. With training, the teams will conduct deep research into their chances of starting a viable business or find new pathways to market.
Will the roof be open or closed at Miller Park? UWM’s Innovative Weather knows
Innovative Weather at UWM gives internships to students and recent graduates of the Atmospheric Science program who help provide customized forecasts to regional clients like We Energies.
UWM study shows survival shapes birds’ plumage as much as need to attract mates
Natural selection – during migration, breeding in subtropical locales and care of young – is as powerful as sexual selection.
New online tracker allows you to watch spring start
Mark D. Schwartz, a distinguished professor of geography, developed the spring indices, which measure relationships between temperature and plant growth.