Fatherly love
Emmanuel Ngui explores the role fathers can play in reducing infant mortality and improving maternal and child health.
Research News
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String theory
Rene Izquierdo has built a world-renowned guitar program at UWM and saved some bygone music of his Cuban homeland from being lost to history.
Tiny changes, big impact
As nanoparticles grow ever more common, Rebecca Klaper plays a key role in exploring ways to keep them from harming our freshwater ecosystems.
Rehab with robots
UWM researchers are designing exoskeletons and artificial intelligence to help patients regain their former mobility.
From trauma to healing
UWM researchers have developed tools to help families and communities.
Why women leave engineering
After learning the reasons behind this steady exodus, UWM researchers are exploring how diversity can impact innovation in engineering work teams.
Decoding consumer behavior
In a world flooded with customer data, Purush Papatla looks to psychology to interpret what it all means.
Food for thought on sustainable agriculture
A UWM microbiologist is exploring how farmers could use less chemical fertilizer and still produce more food.
Inside the new Lubar Entrepreneurship Center
The center will make entrepreneurship an integral part of the UWM experience for all students and faculty members.
Frontiers
Spiders weave a web of memories
Spiders may be smarter than you think. Black widows make mental maps of their webs to help them find food.
Harvesting a garden from the past
Performance artist Portia Cobb tells the story of freed slaves who lived on one of South Carolina’s Sea Islands.
Partnering with Milwaukee’s overlooked neighborhoods
Arijit Sen leads the Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures Field School, an ongoing project that gets architecture students involved with local Milwaukee neighborhoods.
Preserving the history of hypertext literature
Stuart Moulthrop explores early interactive literature and how user experience changes across technology platforms.
Spotlight : Public Health
Healthier air for children at day care
Changing how day care centers are cleaned could improve air quality for children with asthma.
Improving mental health care for new and expecting mothers
UWM and the Medical College of Wisconsin are partnering on a program that supports doctors treating pregnant and perinatal women.
The data behind earlier diagnoses
UWM faculty are developing computer programs that can predict kidney failure and other illnesses before symptoms appear.
Student Research
A promising search for relief without addiction
After losing his wife to addiction, Daniel Knutson aims to develop nonaddictive drugs for depression and migraine pain.
Studying Great Lakes half a world apart
Lessons learned researching Lake Michigan have helped to better understand one of the African Great Lakes.
Shining a new light on MS treatment
Researchers are experimenting with infrared light as a treatment for symptoms of multiple sclerosis.
Books
By the Numbers
One of America’s top research universities
Here are a few reasons why UWM is an elite research institution.
Letter
Chancellor’s welcome
Chancellor Mark Mone invites you to discover the stories and faces behind UWM’s groundbreaking research.