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 »
Associate Professor Dawn Erb Named Research Mentor of the Year
Dawn Erb, Associate Professor of Physics, has been named the 2020 Research Mentor of the Year by the Office of Undergraduate Research. Nominated by senior Physics major Nik Prusinski, Erb’s research interests include galaxy formation and evolution, and she also … Continue Reading »
UWM Biophysics Faculty Awarded Multiple Coronavirus SARS-CoV2 Grants
UWM Biophysics Faculty Awarded Multiple Coronavirus SARS-CoV2 Grants As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold, researchers across the globe are doing vital work to help understand the virus responsible, novel coronavirus SARS-CoV2. Researchers here in Milwaukee are doing their part: … Continue Reading »
UWM Physics Mourns the Loss of Distinguished Professor Emeritus Dilano Saldin
The UWM Physics department mourns the loss of Distinguished Professor Emeritus Dilano Saldin, who passed away in March 2020. Dr. Saldin received his B.A. in Physics and his Ph.D. in Materials from the University of Oxford. He worked at Oxford … Continue Reading »
Physics Department Response to COVID-19
The Physics Department recognizes that the ongoing Coronavirus situation has caused major disruptions to students, staff, faculty, and members of the public with an interest in physics. As with all statements related to the pandemic, the most up-to-date University-wide news … Continue Reading »
3D structural changes of proteins help design shape-morphing materials
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 … Continue Reading »
UWM Physicist and Graduate Students Highlight Research Work Utilizing Ultrafast X-ray Laser
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 … Continue Reading »
UWM research aims to contribute to the next 50 years of space exploration
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 … Continue Reading »