News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The field of engineering has a hard time attracting and retaining women. Two UWM faculty members just published research looking at the reasons why in the May issue of Frontiers of Psychology.
UWM will bring its expertise in microgrid technology to the industry-academic effort “to make the U.S. electrical grid more reliable, greener and less expensive,” according to Adel Nasiri.
As another class of UWM graduates prepares to set forth into the world, here’s a look at a few of those students with the faculty members who most inspired them and pushed them to succeed.
UWM faculty members Ilya Avdeev and Anne Basting have been named as the first Kellner Entrepreneurship Fellows. The positions are awarded to UWM scholars who contribute to the growing culture of entrepreneurship at UWM through research and teaching. Avdeev, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, and Basting, a professor of theater, are supported by the Mary […]
UWM alumnus Bob Gutierrez is helping rebuild Wisconsin’s highways – including the massive Zoo Interchange – while remaining sensitive to the impact the work has on the people and places involved.
He’s reinventing how we think of concrete, and Konstantin Sobolev’s creations could make potholes disappear.
A UWM engineer helps policymakers decide where repairs are most needed in the nation’s public water and wastewater systems.
Junhong Chen, a UWM distinguished professor of mechanical and materials engineering, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. Election to NAI fellow status is accorded to academic inventors whose technology has made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society. Fellows are named inventors on […]
A look at photos from 2016 shows the many ways UWM engaged with the community, from presidential candidate visits to research that helped advance human knowledge and achievement. But there was time for fun, too.
Clean drinking water is something we might take for granted, but for people in impoverished areas of the world, it’s a necessity that takes time and energy every day to acquire. Recent UWM grad Cassandra Bence is helping do something about it.
