Science
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).
Getting sensitive with African clawed frogs
In David Heathcote’s lab, an African frog is helping uncover the details of how our human senses develop.
UWM researcher works to uncloak how memories affect attention
Cognitive neuroscientist Deborah Hannula wonders whether people’s attention can be diverted from a task if there is an object in sight that triggers a memory.
UWM physicists’ technology used in early malaria detection
State-of-the-art military hardware quickly identifies malaria parasites in blood samples as small as a single cell.
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 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.
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.