2012 Research Report | UW-Milwaukee

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Research and Impact
Research That Energizes

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A great privilege of being chancellor is seeing the broad range of interdisciplinary research taking place at UW-Milwaukee.

In our 2012 Research Report, you will see how our faculty, staff and students are following many paths to creating new knowledge in diverse fields.

Their research partners are as close as corporations across town or as distant as fellow academics on the other side of the world. I invite you to spend time with this report to better know the outstanding research originating at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

–Chancellor Michael R. Lovell

Interdisciplinary

More than 30 faculty members, spread across seven UWM schools and colleges, work in biomedical informatics -- attracting $10 million in grant funding in less than three years. UWM Associate Professor Hong Yu explains the groundbreaking work.

No Waiting Room
A Source for new Antivirals
Teaching 21st-century skills from console to classroom
What’s Happening to women Engineers?

Notable Science

Ellen Censky, senior vice president and academic dean of the Milwaukee Public Museum, describes how the research being done at UWM is impacting Milwaukee's economy and affecting us all.

'Texting' the brain with light
A scholarly tour of duty
Supercharged online learning
The (invisible) light fantastic
String theory’s ‘smoking gun’

Partnerships

From the factory floor, UWM Professor Anthony Ross talks about the benefits of giving students real-world experience and companies a say in how the talent of tomorrow is prepared. Ross is the Rockwell Automation Endowed Chair in Supply Chain Management.

Community heals itself through university partnership
Supply chain management moves goods, grows jobs
R&D that energizes
Partnership focuses on combating abuse of prescription meds
Mutual inspiration
Works in progress: student actors, classical theatre

International

UWM Professor of Anthropology Bettina Arnold combines excavating and CT scanning to bring the past back to life. Here she introduces us to the "Harley biker chicks" who lived in Germany 2,600 years ago.

Thirsty for global water solutions
Building peace from big picture to leverage point
Spotlight, praise shine on filmmakers
Hometown global manufacturing
Metal heavy with meaning
Serving a growing need

Commercial Potential

Bill Berezowitz, vice president and general manager of Imaging Subsystems at GE Healthcare, shares "two aspects that make UWM vital to the Milwaukee economy," including one that he says is often overlooked.

Making antibiotics obsolete?
Sensing in a flash
Fish farming’s future
A ‘triple-duty’ fuel cell
The commercial ‘ripple effect’

How UWM makes ideas powerful.

UWM scientists and scholars are not just generating ideas, but also translating them into practical application and commercial use, which maximizes their power and impact on the world.

–Brian Thompson, President UWM Research Foundation
briant@uwmfdn.org / 414-906-4653