Science & Technology
Avatars teach students about teaching
TeachLive is a simulation of a classroom with five avatars who behave as typical middle- or high-school students.
UWM engineer does pioneer study on green manufacturing of electric car batteries
UWM researcher Chris Yingchun Yuan is investigating the environmental sustainability of the next generation of electric car batteries.
UWM physicist researches ‘new gravity’
A compact star system has allowed the scientists to make the best measurements yet of the complex gravitational interactions in such a system.
UWM sturgeon for the Shedd
UWM supplied the Shedd Aquarium with the biological equivalent of 135 million years of Great Lakes ecosystem history in the form of 14 lake sturgeon.
How healthy is Green Bay? The mayflies know
The disappearance of the insect has robbed Lake Michigan’s Green Bay of what UWM biologist Jerry Kaster refers to as a once bustling “walleye factory.”
‘Zuckerberg Files’ attract instant interest
UWM Assistant Professor Michael Zimmer, his students and research have created the online multimedia trove that is “The Zuckerberg Files.”
UWM and partners awarded $25 million to image proteins with X-ray lasers
UWM and partner institutions have landed a $25 million grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct work that could transform the study of diseases.
AMP-ing up S.T.E.M. education
Wisconsin Alliance for Minority Participationt helps prepare students for the STEM areas by getting them involved in undergraduate research and internship
Super-surfaces suggested by nature
UWM’s Michael Nosonovsky is among those scientists who are approaching Technical problems through biomimicry – borrowing strategies from plants and animals.
Finding the fit for spintronics
An ongoing collaboration between physicists from UWM and the University of York, UK, is focused on tuning the electronic behaviors of new materials called topological insulators.