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    December 5, 2019 9:07 am

    By Laura Otto. Ionel Popa (left), UWM assistant professor of physics, and postdoctoral researcher Luai Khoury use force-clamp rheometry, a technique developed in Popa’s lab, to measure the elastic response of biomaterials containing proteins. The two have found a way... Read more →

  • UWM Physicist and Graduate Students Highlight Research Work Utilizing Ultrafast X-ray Laser

    November 26, 2019 3:08 pm

    A recent paper in Nature Methods reports on experiments led by UWM Physics Professor Marius Schmidt at the EuXFEL (the European XFEL), currently the largest X-ray free-electron laser in the world. The experiment focused on time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography, and... Read more →

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    July 2, 2019 2:23 pm

    Original article by Laura Otto and available at The UWM Report Technology surged forward when the U.S. government invested heavily in science and engineering in the 1960s to get humans to the moon. Now, 50 years after Neil Armstrong set... Read more →

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