Science
$2.8 million grant boosts effort by UWM and others to harness cosmic data
The National Science Foundation awarded UWM and nine other collaborating organizations $2.8 million to further develop the concept for a Scalable Cyberinfrastructure Institute for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics.
UWM alum chosen to lead Milwaukee Public Museum
UWM grad Ellen Censky has been chosen as president and chief executive officer of the Milwaukee Public Museum. Censky has been serving in those roles on an interim basis since the resignation of Dennis Kois in September 2018.
LIGO and Virgo detect second neutron star smash-up
Nearly two years after a detecting gravitational waves from a neutron star collision, three detectors have found waves from two other such sources. UWM researchers are an integral part of the effort.
Two UWM bird researchers awarded top honor in their field
UWM faculty Linda Whittingham and Peter Dunn have been awarded the 2019 Elliott Coues Award from the American Ornithological Society.
UWM physicists help launch next-gen atomic imaging with X-ray lasers
A team led by Marius Schmidt, UWM professor of physics, co-authored a paper about the first test of an imaging device that showed the structural changes of an enzyme as it rendered an antibiotic useless.
BioXFEL research gets renewed funding
National Science Foundation’s Science and Technology Center includes researchers from nine institutions, including UWM. NSF has just renewed $22.5 million funding forBioXFEL so members will continue work they began in 2013.
International animal behavior conference at UW-Milwaukee Aug. 3-6
More than 600 scientists from a range of disciplines will gather at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to discuss a host of topics involving all kinds of animals, from communication strategies to mating preferences, at the annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society Aug. 3-6.
Gas ‘halos’ surrounding young galaxy contain clues to its growth
Dawn Erb, an associate professor of physics at UWM, led a team whose study could shed light on how galaxies form stars and grow.
With help from NASA, students launch experiment into space
The UWM team sent plasmids up on a rocket to discover how cosmic radiation affects DNA. The results were surprising.
Einstein’s theory of gravity holds – even in extreme conditions
UWM’s David Kaplan is part of a research team that has shown that yet another prediction by Albert Einstein 100 years ago holds up, even in some extreme conditions in deep space.