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    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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    May 6, 2019 8:51 am

    Originally posted by Laura Otto on the UWM report Nearly two years after a detecting gravitational waves from a neutron star collision, three detectors – the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory and the European-based Virgo detector – have found waves from... Read more →

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    October 18, 2018 4:02 pm

    The Fall 2018 Awards Ceremony took place on October 17, honoring those who have shown exemplary service at UWM. Among the twenty-eight people recognized for their contributions to UWM were the department’s own David Kaplan and Philip Chang. Associate Professor... Read more →

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