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 [...]
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 [...]
Unique Johnson Controls Lab Speeds Discovery
When Johnson Controls built a state-of-the-art dry lab to enable groundbreaking discoveries in the area of energy-storage devices and batteries, it decided to put the facility where UWM students and faculty could readily contribute – right in the College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS). The Energy Advancement Center, which opened in fall 2012, is [...]
Are Online Clinics the Future of Medicine?
What if you could go to the doctor’s office, get a diagnosis, and be treated, all without leaving your house? Through a process developed at UWM and the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), avatars of real patients and doctors (aided by the patients’ medical records) meet at a virtual clinic. F. Mariam Zahedi, professor of [...]
Revealing the Healing Power of Light
Scientists have known for years that certain kinds of light in certain doses can heal wounds, but they don’t understand exactly how it works. UWM scientist Chukuka S. Enwemeka is on the forefront of revealing the cellular mechanisms of phototherapy.
Art, Science, Dance Merge in Milwaukee
Milwaukee: a world-class destination for dance performance, dance education, dance therapy and dance research. That is the vision that inspires the Harmony Initiative, a unique partnership among UWM’s Peck School of the Arts, the Milwaukee Ballet and the Medical College of Wisconsin. The initiative addresses today’s arts funding challenges with a comprehensive business model that [...]
Cracking the Ice Code
What happened the last time the Earth’s climate shifted from “icehouse” to “hothouse”? And what does it tell us about climate change today? John Isbell is on a quest to coax that information from the last time it happened on a vegetated Earth. The only problem is, that was between 290 and 335 million years [...]
A Sleep Pod to Keep Babies Safe
Jennifer Doering’s interest in safe sleeping for infants grew out of her studies of postpartum depression and parental sleep deprivation in impoverished areas of Milwaukee. In her visits to homes, she found cultural preferences and simple exhaustion often led to co-sleeping. “People were asking for ways to make sleeping safer even if they chose to [...]
Teen Brains on Pot
Calm teenagers can reason almost as well as adults. But introduce a negative emotion, like stress, into their decision-making process and it’s a whole other story. Regular pot use before age 16 has been shown to disrupt development of parts of the brain involved in the ability to make rational decisions, persist over time and [...]