UWM is a partner on a $90.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation that supports the development of the next generation of X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFELs) – novel instruments used to unmask phenomena that have never before been … Continue Reading »
Undergraduate Research Opportunity – REU at CSPAR
The Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) at the University of Alabama in Huntsville has announced a new REU program open to undergraduate students. The ten week program will take place from May 22 through July 28, 2023, … Continue Reading »
Physics Department Welcomes New Faculty and Staff
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Department of Physics would like to formally welcome our newest hires, Assistant Professor Ahmad Hosseinizadeh and Lecturer Jeff Polak. Our newest faculty member, Assistant Professor Ahmad Hosseinizadeh, originally joined the UWM Physics Department in 2011, starting … Continue Reading »
In Focus: What the mechanical forces behind protein folding can tell us about cancer
Associate Professor Ionel Popa has been highlighted in the August 2022 issues of In Focus. Scientists have identified two proteins in the body that, when they act together, could help prevent the spread of cancer. But one of those proteins … Continue Reading »
UWM researchers create a breakthrough tool for superfast molecular movies
Original article written by Laura Otto and published on November 3rd in the UWM Report UWM researchers who contributed to the paper include Peter Schwander (from left), Abbas Ourmazd, Marius Schmidt, Russell Fung and Ahmad Hosseinizadeh, who is the first … Continue Reading »
UWM Physics Professor Publishes 2 Papers in Science
Professor Daniel Agterberg’s research into superconductors is creating quite a spark. In the month of August alone, he has published two papers in Science detailing the properties of superconductors, as part of a long-standing tradition of novel superconductor research here … Continue Reading »
UWM researchers take a leading role in finding elusive mergers of black holes with neutron stars
This story originally appears in In Focus, Volume 11, No. 7 Written by Laura Otto, University Relations For the first time, researchers have confirmed the detection of a collision between a black hole and a neutron star. In fact, the … Continue Reading »
Assistant Professor Min Gyu Kim Wins 2021 AKPA Outstanding Young Researcher Award
The Association of Korean Physicists in America have selected Assistant Professor Min Gyu Kim as one of the two recipients of the 2021 Outstanding Young Researcher Award. This award, which recognizes Korean Physicists currently working in at research universities/institutions or … Continue Reading »
NANOGrav finds first hints of low-frequency gravitational wave background
This story was originally posted in the UWM Report In this artist’s rendering, a set of millisecond pulsars spin rapidly, sending pulses of radio waves at precise intervals toward Earth. Passing gravitational waves interrupt this observed regularity the same way … Continue Reading »
Dr. Jean Creighton to receive 2021 CIM Grant
The UWM Physics Department would like to congratulate Dr. Jean Creighton, director of the Manfred Olson Planetarium, for receiving a 2021 Curriculum Innovation Grant from the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center for her proposal Communicating the Universe: Integrating design-thinking in a transdisciplinary … Continue Reading »