A Map to Recovery
A comprehensive map of the underwater habitat may hold the key to revitalizing fish populations in Milwaukee’s inner harbor.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Ethics of Big Data
A UWM study asks how researchers should approach an era of unprecedented information about people’s private lives.
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.
Frontiers
When origami meets chemistry
Jian Chen’s research team took a page from origami and applied it to shape-memory materials, meaning things like plastic can be programmed to have one shape for a specific purpose, then reprogrammed to another if necessary.
How addresses affect inequality
A UWM sociologist’s data shows how different neighborhoods – even those relatively close geographically – can have very different effects on things like health, education and employment.
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.
A forest frozen in time
The fossils from a forest on Earth’s coldest continent are older than the dinosaurs and offer clues on the effects of greenhouse gases and climate change.
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.
A win-wind proposition
The same high wind gusts that produce power can crack wind turbines’ giant blades. Ryo Amano has found a way to get the blades to heal themselves.
Spotlight : Health and Wellness
The science of self-management
Children with special needs face two to three times the risk of obesity than other children. Michele Polfuss, an assistant professor of nursing, helps those children and their families better manage their weight.
Seeking answers to opioid deaths
UWM researchers interview the children of overdose victims in an effort to learn more about the impact of this national crisis.
Graduate Research
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.
A dose of humor for treating fears
Children with Williams syndrome often struggle with anxiety and fear. New research done at UWM shows treating objects of fear with humor can help children overcome their phobias.
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.
Undergraduate Research
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.
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.
Books
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.
Paris by the Book
After Leah’s troubled husband disappears from their Milwaukee home, she and her daughters start afresh in Paris.
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.
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.
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.