The University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee research efforts have been rewarded with the highest rating (R1) from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions or Higher Learning. UWM Associate Professor of Physics Xavier Siemens, a member of the Leonard E. Parker Center … Continue Reading »
UWM Physics Professor Develops New Technology for Diagnosing and Treating Cancer of the Prostate and other Abdominal Organs
UWM Physics Associate Professor Sarah Patch is developing a diagnostic tool for prostate cancer using VHF (very high frequency) radio transmission pulses. Using the observed lower electrical conductivity of fluids in unhealthy prostate tissue Patch is able to create thermoacoustic … Continue Reading »
UWM Physics Professor Participates in a Collaborative Effort to Observe Cosmological Transients
UWM Physics Associate Professor David Kaplan’s research is part of a 12 university collaboration called GROWTH (Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen). The network recently received a $4.5 million, five year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under … Continue Reading »
Biophysics Seminar: Dilano Saldin
The Physics department Biophysics Seminars are usually on Thursday afternoons from 4:15-6:00 pm in the Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Complex (KIRC) Room KEN 2175. Refreshments are served from 4:00-4:15 pm in the KIRC 3rd floor Kitchenette area. Structures of randomly oriented … Continue Reading »
UWM Physics Researchers Lead a New Effort to Detect Gravitational Waves
A research team, led by physicists at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (UWM), will attempt to detect low-frequency gravitational waves. The discovery of such gravitational waves will provide a new picture of the universe and confirm one of the … Continue Reading »
Physics Professor Emeritus to present the inaugural “Dean’s Distinguished Lecture in the Natural Sciences”
Dr. Robert Greenler, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee will present the inaugural “Dean’s Distinguished Lecture in the Natural Sciences“. The lecture is scheduled for Thursday, April 23, 2015 at 4:30 PM … Continue Reading »
NASA Video Includes SOFIA Segment with UWM Planetarium Director Jean Creighton
NASA’s 2014 Year-in-review video highlights the SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) project and the special involvement of Jean Creighton, Director of the UWM Manfred Olson Planetarium. The video segment showing the SOFIA project begins at time marker 1:12. Details … Continue Reading »
UWM team the first to “see” atomic changes in proteins with an X-ray laser
A research team led by physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) has proven a method that makes it possible to find the atomic structure of proteins in action by producing “snapshots” of them with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution.… Continue Reading »
Two Physics faculty receive Catalyst Grants
Physics professors Carol Hirschmugl and Valerica Raicu received early-stage research projects backed by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, and the Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation. These grants support promising research and development in areas where UWM has the greatest … Continue Reading »
CGCA Participate in Pilot Project with Internet2’s InCommon
A new pilot scheme between Internet2’s InCommon and the identity management team from the Leonard E. Parker Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics (CGCA) will allow astronomers from across the world to use their local university credentials to access three … Continue Reading »