UWM Research Report – The Knowledge to Thrive
Scientists, scholars and students at UW-Milwaukee are continuously turning out original and marketable ideas that help keep the innovation engine running in Southeastern Wisconsin.
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 [...]
A ‘Super’ Material Substitute
This year UWM became a front-runner in a worldwide race to find less expensive ways to replicate a revolutionary “super” material called graphene. UWM scientists and graduate students have chemically changed a close cousin of the highly touted material into an easy-to-make and cost-effective form. Graphene is a one-atom-thick layer of carbon that resembles a [...]
A New Prescription for Drug Studies
What can avatars tell medical researchers about the health of real people? The same information, it turns out, that testing large human populations would, says UWM researcher Peter Tonellato. A professor of public health, Tonellato uses avatars, mathematical models and simulations to develop reliable medical guidance at a fraction of the cost of a large-scale [...]
Hearing the Internet
Rakesh Babu is trying to get inside the minds of those who browse the Internet with their ears, not their eyes. Online information should be more accessible to people who are blind, says Babu, assistant professor of information studies, who lost his own sight as the result of a degenerative eye disease. His research at [...]