Jan. 27 Winter Hike and Chili Potluck
Sponsored by the UWM Field Station and the Friends of the Cedarburg Bog
UWM In the News: Week ending Jan. 10, 2012
NEWS UWM’s Innovation Campus lands major office project, 350 jobs JSOnline.com NewsWatch, 20130109 The three-story, 95,000-square-foot building will be located on three acres in the western portion of Innovation Campus Also in The Business Journal Low salaries impacting ability of UWM/WC to retain faculty Wiscinfo.com 20130105 Professors at the University of Wisconsin-Marshfield/Wood County make less [...]
In memoriam: Tomas Garrett-Rosas
Alumnus and former esteemed colleague of the Ronald E. McNair Program, Dr. Tomas Garrett-Rosas, was found dead Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013. Tomas is remembered as someone who was devoted to the McNair program and its mission in many capacities. “I am honored to have known him as a scholar, father, husband, son, and dear friend,” [...]
Men’s Basketball Hosts Valparaiso Saturday
The Panther men’s basketball team is back at home for the first time in 2013 when they host Valparaiso Saturday afternoon, Jan. 12.
The Power of Research Relationships
For many years, I have been a firm believer in the great power of close research relationships between universities and the institutions in the communities they serve. This belief is widely embraced by faculty and staff throughout the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. It extends to those with whom we work regardless of whether they are in [...]
Biotech Discovery Fuels UWM Startup
A new strategy for treating infection in both humans and plants is the basis for the latest startup company – and the second one this year – to launch from research conducted at UWM. With backing from an investor, UWM biologist Ching-Hong Yang and collaborator Xin Chen, a chemistry professor at Changzhou University in China, [...]
GE Healthcare Gives UWM Global Impact
A unique collaboration aims to turbo-charge what is already a strong state industry cluster. GE Healthcare is investing more than $3 million with UWM to support a “first of its kind” talent pipeline for Wisconsin-based medical imaging software developers and researchers. Through the five-year collaboration, UWM will launch the GE Healthcare Center for Advanced Computational [...]
Rapid Research Spots New Freshwater Invaders
Of all the substances entering lakes and rivers from the urban landscape, which ones are harmful to aquatic life – and to people? For thousands of chemicals, scientists just don’t know. But UWM’s National Center for Great Lakes Genomics is finding the answers. New technology at the center, part of UWM’s School of Freshwater Sciences [...]
Nurturing Family Caregivers
Assuming care for a loved one is challenging,” says UWM Professor Rhonda Montgomery. Often, the emotional strain of caregiving is harder than the physical tasks. “As more care is required, roles and relationships change in ways that are very stressful,” says Montgomery, Helen Bader Endowed Chair in Applied Gerontology in the Helen Bader School of [...]
When Speech is Not a ‘Voice’
If you want 21st-century solutions to 21st-century challenges, you need to bring together researchers from disciplines that haven’t traditionally worked together. That’s the thinking behind the Transdisciplinary Challenge Awards funded through UWM’s Center for 21st Century Studies. This year’s award is supporting an engineer, a speech-language pathologist, an artist-scholar and a linguist who are collaborating [...]