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.
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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.
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.
The Ethics of Big Data
A UWM study asks how researchers should approach an era of unprecedented information about people’s private lives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Getting food to where it is needed most
Marketing professor Laura Peracchio studies success stories like Hunger Task Force’s Mobile Market, which provides better access to nutritious food for impoverished people.
Comfort for the dying in Malawi
Palliative care is scarce in Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu’s home country, and it often falls to young women, perpetuating illiteracy and poverty. She wants to break that cycle.
Spotlight : Energy
Energizing the future of batteries
UWM scientists are creating more powerful and longer-lasting batteries that can be used in everything from electronics to electric cars.
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
Taking a stand helps students
UWM kinesiology researchers find increased physical activity and better concentration among students who use standing desks.
Making anything possible
Professor Roger O. Smith’s commitment mirrors that of UWM’s occupational therapy program, which is marking its 100th year.
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.
The brain surgery app
Students in UWM’s App Brewery worked with doctors at the Medical College of Wisconsin to develop an app that helps guide doctors during brain surgery. The app is being tested at hospitals nationwide.
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.
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.
The Transit of Venus
This new work features poems from Susan Firer, the city of Milwaukee’s poet laureate from 2008 to 2010.
Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television
Christine E. Evans traces the progression of Soviet TV programming from the relative freedom of post-Stalinism into the dawn of Gorbachev’s perestroika.
The Jazz Republic: Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany
Jonathan O. Wipplinger explores the role jazz had in Germany’s first democracy.
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.