Science
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.
UWM astronomer helps find cosmic searchlight
New Fast Radio Burst discovery finds ‘missing matter’ in the universe MILWAUKEE _ An international team of scientists using a combination of radio and optical telescopes has for the first time managed to identify the location of a fast radio burst, allowing them to confirm the current cosmological model of the distribution of matter in […]
Doctoral student in right place at right time for gravity waves
UWM doctoral student Alex Urban was at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory in Louisiana at the historic moment when a gravitational wave was detected, confirming Einstein’s theory.
UWM’s big data helps find gravitational waves
UWM physicists provided computing power and analytical tools critical to the detection of gravitational waves, first predicted by Albert Einstein 100 years ago.
Renee Spiewak, international traveler, physics star
A home-schooled, first-generation college student, Renee Spiewak excelled at UWM, working side by side with professors on undergraduate research and winning National Science Foundation funding to study with scientists in Italy and Australia.
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.
UWM team the first to “see” atomic changes in proteins with an X-ray laser
What made it possible were the ultra-short X-ray pulses of a Free Electron Laser (XFEL).