Science
The arc of UWM’s wave, from Parker to Brady and beyond
A century after Albert Einstein’s gravitational wave prediction, meet the UWM scientists who helped prove him correct, his doubts wrong, and cemented the school’s status as a premier research institution.
Psychologist zeros in on when sound becomes music
Adam Greenberg, assistant professor of psychology at UWM, is researching how the brain recognizes music and our response to it.
Gravitational waves detected from 2nd pair of colliding black holes
UWM physicists are part of an international team that has detected gravitational waves for a second time.
5 potential drugs of the future incubated at UWM
New drugs under development by UWM scientists, who are working through the Milwaukee Institute for Drug Discovery, could eventually change millions of lives.
Split-second imaging sheds light on biology’s grand questions
UWM researchers used a groundbreaking experiment to observe molecular changes with unprecedented detail and speed.
UWM researchers create a better way to find out ‘when’
UWM physicists have created a machine-learning algorithm that improves the accuracy of timing estimates by a factor of up to 300.
Uncloaking the chemistry of life
UWM researchers Marius Schmidt and Jason Tenboer harnessed X-Ray Free Electron Laser technology and became the first people to witness proteins changing in real time.
Anthropologists uncover Wisconsin’s past
The Cultural Resource Management Program at UWM carefully picks up the pieces when construction projects dig into forgotten city cemeteries or mass graves.
UWM researcher unearths ancient multicellular fossils
UWM paleontologist Stephen Dornbos found 555-million-year-old fossilized multicellular marine algae, or seaweed, and it’s among the oldest examples of multicellular life.
Electrifying research encourages young scientists
A UWM faculty member helps Milwaukee’s Betty Brinn Children’s Museum design and evaluate an exhibit where children build circuits, make music and learn about science.