{"id":26629,"date":"2015-12-30T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?p=26629"},"modified":"2023-05-10T15:46:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T20:46:25","slug":"2015-innovation-and-research-at-uwm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/2015-innovation-and-research-at-uwm\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation and research at UWM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research done at UWM leads to better health, a cleaner environment, economic development and a greater understanding of our world. Here&#8217;s a look at some of the innovative work that took place in 2015.<\/p>\n<h2>Microgrids<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23121\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23121\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/Nasiri_d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23121 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/Nasiri_d.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Adel Nasiri stands in the solar panel array at Wisconsin's first microgrid site, located near the University Services Research Building. (UWM Photo\/Troye Fox)\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/Nasiri_d.jpg 750w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/Nasiri_d-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Adel Nasiri stands in the solar panel array at Wisconsin&#8217;s first microgrid site, located near the University Services Research Building. (UWM Photo\/Troye Fox)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>UWM Professor Adel Nasiri is working with Milwaukee companies advance microgrid technology. Microgrids are free-standing power sources that integrate disparate energy-generating sources, store the energy and then distribute it uninterrupted to a limited surrounding area during power outages. <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/building-a-better-way-to-supply-energy\/\">Learn more about their research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Ebola sensor<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16294\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16294\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/02\/Chen_EbolaSensor_d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16294 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/02\/Chen_EbolaSensor_d.jpg\" alt=\"Chen_EbolaSensor_d\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/02\/Chen_EbolaSensor_d.jpg 750w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/02\/Chen_EbolaSensor_d-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Junhong Chen displays a disk containing thousands of sensors made from a &#8220;tunable&#8221; material he created. The sensors can be used to detect a many targets. (UWM Photo\/Troye Fox)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Junhong Chen, a UWM professor of mechanical and materials engineering, and his colleagues received a grant to develop a sensor that could be used to immediately detect the Ebola virus with a simple \u201cspit\u201d test. Chen will use a sensor platform he created to detect water contamination to make the low-cost virus sensor. <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/uwm-sensor-could-make-detecting-ebola-as-easy-as-spitting\/\">Read more about this effort<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Anthropology<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26453\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26453\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/Cemetery_report.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26453\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/Cemetery_report.jpg\" alt=\"Pat Richards, associate director of UWM\u2019s Cultural Resource Management program, oversees the excavation of a grave in the forgotten Grunhagen cemetery on N. 13th Street in Milwaukee. (UWM Photo\/Derek Rickert)\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/Cemetery_report.jpg 750w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/Cemetery_report-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pat Richards, associate director of UWM\u2019s Cultural Resource Management program, oversees the excavation of a grave in the forgotten Grunhagen cemetery on N. 13th Street in Milwaukee. (UWM Photo\/Derek Rickert)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Anthropologists with UWM\u2019s Cultural Resource Management program helped excavate a German American cemetery from the 1800s after construction turn up remains in a lot next to a homeless shelter that wants to expand. CRM helps public and private agencies comply state and federal laws protecting historic sites and local resources. <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/uwm-anthropologists-excavate-forgotten-milwaukee-cemetery\/\">Learn more about its work<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Toxic stress<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23695\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23695\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/Toxic-Stress_SP750.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23695 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/Toxic-Stress_SP750.jpg\" alt=\"David Pate, who used the definition of toxic stress to help him understand the hundreds of disadvantaged black men he met in his research. (UWM Photo\/Derek Rickert)\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/Toxic-Stress_SP750.jpg 750w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/Toxic-Stress_SP750-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23695\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Pate uses the definition of toxic stress to help him understand the hundreds of disadvantaged black men he met in his research. (UWM Photo\/Derek Rickert)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Social worker David Pate studies toxic stress, or early exposure to chronic, unmitigated stress that affects behavior, learning and health for a lifetime. Pate says the concept of toxic stress has helped him explain what some 500 disadvantaged black men have told him for nearly 20 years about their day-to-day wishes and challenges of being a black father in Milwaukee and elsewhere. <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/little-comfort-little-humanity-uwm-expert-explains-toxic-stress\/\">Read more about his work<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Aquaculture<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18949\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18949\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/06\/bear_d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18949\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/06\/bear_d.jpg\" alt=\"A bear at the Milwaukee County Zoo eats fish raised in the aquaculture program at UWM\u2019s School of Freshwater Sciences. (UWM Photo\/Derek Rickert)\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/06\/bear_d.jpg 750w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/06\/bear_d-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bear at the Milwaukee County Zoo eats fish raised in the aquaculture program at UWM\u2019s School of Freshwater Sciences. (UWM Photo\/Derek Rickert)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Scientist Fred Binkowski grows tens of thousands of yellow perch each year in a lab at UWM\u2019s School of Freshwater Sciences, as he researches ways to improve methods of raising fish, called aquaculture. Some of the fish provide a tasty treat for animals at the Milwaukee County Zoo. <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/uwm-provides-a-tasty-treat-for-fish-eating-zoo-animals-live-prey\/\">Learn more about Binkowski&#8217;s work<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Nanoparticles<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26520\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26520\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/Klaper-Nano-report.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26520 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/Klaper-Nano-report.jpg\" alt=\"Freshwater Sciences Professor Rebecca Klaper and her colleagues at the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology have received a $20 million National Science Foundation grant to help develop safer, more sustainable nanoparticles. The particles are already used in hundreds of products ranging from sunscreen to sporting goods. (UWM Photo\/Derek Rickert)\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/Klaper-Nano-report.jpg 750w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/Klaper-Nano-report-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freshwater Sciences Professor Rebecca Klaper and her colleagues at the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology have received a $20 million National Science Foundation grant to help develop safer, more sustainable nanoparticles. (UWM Photo\/Derek Rickert)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Scientist Rebecca Klaper and her colleagues are exploring how nanoparticles \u2014 found in everything from sunscreen to sporting goods \u2014 interact with the environment and living things. \u201cPart of the goal is to help the technology move forward in a safe and sustainable way,\u201d Klaper says. <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/uwm-lands-share-of-20-million-nsf-grant-to-help-make-safer-nanoparticles\/\">Read more about their research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Child caregivers<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16569\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16569\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/caregivers_d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16569 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/caregivers_d.jpg\" alt=\"One of the nation's few experts in her area, UWM's Melinda Kavanaugh researches how caring for ailing relatives affects children ages 8 to 18, and how communities can support them. (UWM Photo\/Troye Fox)\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/caregivers_d.jpg 750w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/caregivers_d-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the nation&#8217;s few experts in her area, UWM&#8217;s Melinda Kavanaugh researches how caring for ailing relatives affects children ages 8 to 18, and how communities can support them. (UWM Photo\/Troye Fox)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An estimated 1.3 million children and teens help care for family members with serious health conditions, a number likely to swell as baby boomers age. Their work has potentially serious consequences for society because young caregivers frequently drop out of school, affecting their future earning power, said Melinda Kavanaugh, an assistant professor of social work and one of the nation\u2019s few experts on young caregivers. <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/barely-noticed-1-3-million-spend-their-youth-caring-for-adults\/\">Learn more about her recent research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Evolution<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16889\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16889\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Gouldian-finch_d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16889\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Gouldian-finch_d.jpg\" alt=\"The Gouldian finch was one of 977 species examined by UWM biologist Peter Dunn and his research partners in a worldwide study of the evolution of bird colors. This photograph shows a male.\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Gouldian-finch_d.jpg 750w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Gouldian-finch_d-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Gouldian finch was one of 977 species examined by UWM biologist Peter Dunn and his research partners in a worldwide study of the evolution of bird colors. This photograph shows a male.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Everyone knows male birds have brighter plumage than females. But a new study done by Peter Dunn and Linda Whittingham, professors of behavioral ecology, and Jessica Armenta, a former graduate student who now teaches at Austin Community College in Texas, found that while males are often have brighter feathers than females, the two sexes have come closer together in color over time to blend into their surroundings and hide from predators. <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/uwm-study-shows-survival-shapes-birds-plumage-as-much-as-need-to-attract-mates\/\">Learn more about how their study is shaping our ideas about evolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>How we think<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26472\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26472\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/Ramin_d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26472\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/Ramin_d.jpg\" alt=\"Ramin Pashaie, UWM assistant professor of electrical engineering, works on hybrid instrumentation to study brain-blood communication. (UWM Photo\/Troye Fox)\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/Ramin_d.jpg 750w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/Ramin_d-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26472\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramin Pashaie, UWM assistant professor of electrical engineering, works on hybrid instrumentation to study brain-blood communication. (UWM Photo\/Troye Fox)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Engineer Ramin Pashaie is building a device that could help answer a particularly puzzling biological question \u2013 how blood is directed to the brain to power thinking. Pashaie received a prestigious Early CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to develop technology that will help researchers understand how information processing and blood flow are intertwined, one of the first steps in understanding the circuitry of diseases like Alzheimer\u2019s or atherosclerosis, in which plaque builds up in the arteries. <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/uwm-engineer-builds-device-to-show-how-blood-flows-when-we-think\/\">Read an interview with him<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Climate change<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26485\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26485\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/SpringTrackerFlowers_d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26485 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/SpringTrackerFlowers_d.jpg\" alt=\"The UWM Field Station property in Saukville, WI.\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/SpringTrackerFlowers_d.jpg 750w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/SpringTrackerFlowers_d-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flowers bloom at the UWM Field Station property in Saukville, Wisconsin. The budding of flowers and other plants provides information about temperature and climate change. (UWM Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You can watch spring start with an online tracker based on the work of geographer Mark Schwartz. His spring indices measure relationships between temperature and plant growth, with ramifications for climate change. <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/new-online-tracker-allows-you-to-watch-spring-start\/\">Read an interview with Schwartz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research done at UWM leads to better health, a cleaner environment, economic development and a greater understanding of our world. 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