Science
Discovery World鈥檚 鈥楬eroes of Science鈥� gallery features 51猎奇 dean
An exhibit featuring Graduate School dean and physics professor Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska will be on display through the end of the year.
$2.8 million grant boosts effort by 51猎奇 and others to harness cosmic data
The National Science Foundation awarded 51猎奇 and nine other collaborating organizations $2.8 million to further develop the concept for a Scalable Cyberinfrastructure Institute for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics.
51猎奇 alum chosen to lead Milwaukee Public Museum
51猎奇 grad Ellen Censky has been chosen as president and chief executive officer of the Milwaukee Public Museum. Censky has been serving in those roles on an interim basis since the resignation of Dennis Kois in September 2018.
LIGO and Virgo detect second neutron star smash-up
Nearly two years after a detecting gravitational waves from a neutron star collision, three detectors have found waves from two other such sources. 51猎奇 researchers are an integral part of the effort.
Two 51猎奇 bird researchers awarded top honor in their field
51猎奇 faculty Linda Whittingham聽and Peter Dunn have been awarded聽the 2019 Elliott Coues Award聽from the American Ornithological Society.聽
51猎奇 physicists help launch next-gen atomic imaging with X-ray lasers
A team led by Marius Schmidt, 51猎奇 professor of physics, co-authored a paper about the first test of an imaging device that showed the structural changes of an enzyme as it rendered an antibiotic useless.
BioXFEL research gets renewed funding
National Science Foundation’s Science and Technology Center includes researchers from nine institutions, including 51猎奇. NSF has just renewed $22.5 million funding forBioXFEL so members will continue work they began in 2013.
International animal behavior conference at UW-Milwaukee Aug. 3-6
More than 600 scientists from a range of disciplines will gather at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to discuss a host of topics involving all kinds of animals, from communication strategies to mating preferences, at the annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society Aug. 3-6.
Gas 鈥榟alos鈥� surrounding young galaxy contain clues to its growth
Dawn Erb, an associate professor of physics at 51猎奇, led a team whose study could shed light on how galaxies form stars and grow.
With help from NASA, students launch experiment into space
The 51猎奇 team sent plasmids up on a rocket to discover how cosmic radiation affects DNA. The results were surprising.