Renewable Horizons
Wilkistar Otieno helps companies get the most out of what they make, developing a scientific model that advises industries and their customers when a remanufactured product is better than a new one.
Research News
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January 14, 2019What’s in a species? Biologist helps determine wolf taxonomy
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January 1, 2019UWM’s 10 largest research grants for 2018
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December 19, 2018UWM maintains its top-tier research status
Features
An Immigrant’s Journey
Chia Youyee Vang’s own refugee experience sparked her passion to explore the lives of Hmong people worldwide. Her work offers lessons on how to help newer refugee groups.
How Math Makes Movies of Molecules
UWM physicists make it possible to create three dimensional movies featuring the smallest machines of life, with the algorithms used in Nobel Prize-winning research.
The Next Wave of Discovery
The Nobel Prize-winning quest to discover gravitational waves is changing astronomy by giving scientists the most comprehensive tools yet for exploring the universe.
Virtually Limitless
The possibilities of virtual reality extend far beyond games. UWM’s Immersive Media Lab explores how this exciting technology could change the way we learn.
Stoking an Industrial Revolution
UWM’s new Connected Systems Institute is partnering with Fortune 500 companies to prepare for the next industrial revolution. Their work and training will transform how business is done.
The Ethics of Big Data
A UWM study asks how researchers should approach an era of unprecedented information about people’s private lives.
A Map to Recovery
A comprehensive map of the underwater habitat may hold the key to revitalizing fish populations in Milwaukee’s inner harbor.
Justice for all
Tina Freiburger has found evidence of racial disparities in Milwaukee County judicial decisions. She wants to make courts more effective while ensuring that everyone is treated equally.
Menopause on Your Mind
Neuroscientist Karyn Frick is unraveling the complex reasons why women are far more likely than men to suffer memory loss as they age. She’s also seeking ways to prevent it.
Frontiers
Checking in on school behavior
The Check-In/Check-Out program is a popular method schools use to help students with mild problem behaviors. Educational psychologist David Klingbeil is trying to improve it.
Perched on an aquaculture breakthrough
The days when Lake Michigan teemed with yellow perch are gone, but UWM’s aquaculture efforts are restoring the species. The work could reduce a U.S. seafood trade deficit that’s reached $14 billion.
Giving children a voice about race
UWM researcher Erin Winkler knows it’s difficult to speak with children about race and racism, but she says it’s vital we do so.
Teaching culturally diverse classrooms
Modern-day students come from many types of cultural backgrounds. UWM and Milwaukee Public Schools are teaming up to help teachers respect those cultures while promoting academics and overall well-being.
Spotlight : Energy
Energy help from giant kelp
Researcher Filipe Alberto is searching for the genetic traits in earth’s fastest-growing organism to find strains that are best-suited for mass production of biofuel.
Microgrid expertise, major initiative
UWM teams with the National Science Foundation to advance a more reliable, greener and less expensive way to deliver power.
Spotlight : Health and Wellness
Helping African-Americans beat breast cancer
African-American women are 42 percent more likely than white women to die of breast cancer. Alice Yan is changing that by encouraging survivors to be more active.
Wellness programs worth the weight
College of Health Sciences scholars discover it takes more than money to get employees to maintain healthier lifestyles.
Graduate Research
The mystery of beach bum bacteria
New research done at UWM shows E. coli in sand may not be a sign of sewage-polluted runoff, and health officials may be closing some beaches unnecessarily.
A doctorate earned from afar in Oman
Amal Ali Al-Ghassani’s research shows frequent visits from family members and home health workers are critical in a country lacking nursing homes. Her work was inspired by her father-in-law’s experience with stroke.
Exercise and the telltale heart
Graduate student David Cornell is looking for ways to prevent deaths from sudden heart attacks after intense activity. His work could help professional athletes, firefighters and others.
Undergraduate Research
When data is for the birds
UWM geography student Erica Gerloski records where birds die on campus, providing information that other researchers are using to reduce bird collisions with buildings.
An immediate impact
UWM offers students unique opportunities to do research as early as the summer before their freshman year. Meet some of the outstanding undergraduates whose work is making a difference now.
Books
Against the Deportation Terror: Organizing for Immigrant Rights in the Twentieth Century
Historian Rachel Ida Buff looks at the relationship between immigration restriction and the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born.
The Politics of Pain Medicine
S. Scott Graham looks at the challenges faced by doctors in treating chronic pain.
Memory, Reconciliation, and Reunions in South Korea: Crossing the Divide
Nan Kim explores how public memory of unresolved war trauma figures into Korean peace efforts.
The Transit of Venus
This new work features poems from Susan Firer, the city of Milwaukee’s poet laureate from 2008 to 2010.
Atari Age: The Emergence of Video Games in America
The introduction of video games in the 1970s had parents, educators and politicians struggling to decide whether they were a boon or a menace.
By the Numbers
An elite research institution
Here are few reasons why UWM is recognized as one of America’s top research universities.
Letter
Chancellor’s welcome
Chancellor Mark Mone invites you to discover how UWM research is expanding what we know.