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 [...]
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 [...]
Stoking UWM’s Student Entrepreneurial Fire
When Jesse Depinto’s full-time job was suddenly downsized, he began to dream of starting a business of his own. Depinto, a 23-year-old engineering undergraduate who already co-owns a small company, is now pursuing another thanks to UWM’s Student Startup Challenge (SSC). The SSC is energizing the campus entrepreneurial culture, giving students with sustainable product ideas [...]