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October 2017

Biophysics News: The Origami of Life and Nobel Collaborations

October 23, 2017

The Origami of Life: An Interview with Ionel Popa Ionel Popa, a faculty member and biophysicist in the Physics Department, has recently been awarded a Shaw Scientist Grant for $200,000 in order to study protein folding – an essential process … Continue Reading »

UWM Physicists Part of Neutron Star Discovery

October 16, 2017

Update: The official UWM report has covered this news – click here to read more about the contributions of the people here at UWM who contributed. The story also contains commentary by the department’s own Patrick Brady, David Kaplan, and … Continue Reading »

UWM Physicist Receives Shaw Scientist Award from The Greater Milwaukee Foundation

October 5, 2017

Professor Ionel Popa of the Physics Department received a 2017 Shaw Scientist Award from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation in support of his project, “Study of the Mechanisms of Cellular Mechano-Transduction in Relation to Cancer Metastasis.” The award was established by … Continue Reading »

2017 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Members of the LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration

October 3, 2017

Earlier today, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungliga Vetenskapsakademein) announced that the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics was jointly awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish, and Kip S. Thorne for their contributions to the LIGO detector and the … Continue Reading »

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