Science & Technology
High school students get a look at urban planning, GIS
A group of local high school students is learning the many ways Geographic Information Systems can be used in future careers.
Grad student helps take TheraBracelet to the market
The device allows anyone with a loss of fine motor skills to go about their daily routines and maintain independence.
UWM strategizes climate change policy for the Great Lakes
UWM’s Center for Water Policy convened a group of nationally renowned experts from the Great Lakes region.
At long last: A concrete that’s nearly maintenance-free
Scott Muzenski, a civil engineering graduate student, had been working on a new kind of high-performance concrete.
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.”