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  • UW-Milwaukee Receives Prestigious Carnegie R-1 Research Status

    June 2, 2016

    The University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee research efforts have been rewarded with the highest rating (R1) from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions or Higher Learning. UWM Associate Professor of Physics Xavier Siemens, a member of the Leonard E. Parker Center... Read more →

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    November 17, 2016

    In the summer of 2016, four UWM physics undergraduates built and installed 576 antennas for the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) in the Australian Outback. The array antennas gather data from the distant reaches of the universe in a search for... Read more →

  • UWM Physicists Help Discover a Second Pair of Colliding Black Holes

    June 24, 2016

    Thirty University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (UWM) physicists, members of the Leonard E. Parker Center for Gravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics, as members of the international LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) and the Virgo scientific collaborations, have participated in the detection... Read more →

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Quasar Absorption Lines: From Reionization to Dark Matter
George Becker, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, UC-Riverside

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New Approaches to Structure Determination from Uncrystallized Biomolecules
Jeffrey Donatelli, Lawrence Berkeley Lab

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Cosmology, Cell Phones & Video Games: Mapping Dark Energy with CHIME
Prof. Keith Vanderlinde, Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto

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How Black Holes Dine Above the Eddington “Limit” Without Overheating or Excessive Belching
Dr. Shane Davis, Dept. of Astronomy, University of Virginia

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