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UW-Milwaukee, in collaboration with other partners, has received a grant to establish a national center to study ways to improve online teaching and learning.

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Derek Counts, professor and chair of the Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is studying new ways of documenting and sharing artifacts.

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Study by Amy Kalkbrenner and colleagues shows that pollution's impact on autism rates in North Carolina is similar to results of previous pollution autism studies in California.

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Hayeon Song, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, analyzed existing research on the impact of Facebook on loneliness. She concluded Facebook didn't make people lonely, but lonely people were more likely to use the popular social media site.

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A novel method for producing ultra-narrow ribbons of graphene and then tuning the material's electrical properties holds promise for use in nano-devices.

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Jason Jones, assistant professor of Japanese at UWM, says pop culture has helped to erase the more complicated character of the original 1954 Godzilla.

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Milwaukee engineers have created a cement composite that is durable, water-resistant and malleable with such a high level of “crack control” that the researchers estimate it has a service life of 120 years or more.

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New research has revealed a method of controlling the surface electronic state of topological insulators -- an important step in realizing the material's potential use in energy efficient devices.

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Engineers at UW-Milwaukee have found that a new kind of optical fiber they designed can not only transmit more data than single core optical fibers but also transmit images with less pixelation and higher contrast than the current commercial endoscopy imaging fibers.

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A team of researchers led by Michael Zimmer of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Information Studies has created a digital archive of all public statements made by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

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A UWM study has found that intrinsic ripples form on a sheet of graphene when it is placed on top of a semiconductor. The ripples further change the Schottky barrier height, affecting electron transport.

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Scientists have known for years that certain wavelengths of light in certain doses can heal, but they are only now uncovering exactly how it works, thanks in large part to research cluster in Milwaukee.

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UWM researchers uncover a cellular mechanism for memory and learning that provides one avenue for how these take place.

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A team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee College of Nursing studied the reasons why African-Americans and African immigrants are reluctant to take part in genetic research -- despite potential benefits -- and make some recommendations for building trust between researchers and communities.

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If health concerns won’t get college students to quit smoking, maybe experiencing the future will. A UW-Milwaukee researcher tested a video game showing social smokers what they might look like after 20 years.

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Biotechnology has held out the promise of genetically engineered seeds that provide bountiful crops while keeping the weeds at bay. However, using these seeds raises many ecological, ethical, political, issues.

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Up to 30 percent of elderly patients released from hospital into home healthcare end up back in the hospital within 60 days, most within 20 days. A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee researcher is studying how to reduce those numbers.

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UWM geologist John Isbell reads rock, looking for the natural rules that govern the Earth’s climate in the absence of human activity. His work is challenging many assumptions about the ways drastic climate change unfolds – and what to expect next.

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A two-year study led by nursing researcher Jane Leske at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has shown that family members of trauma patients can benefit by being present during critical procedures in the ER.

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Researchers at UW-Milwaukee have found a novel way to propagate multiple beams of light in a single strand of optical fiber. The discovery could increase the amount of information fiber optic cables can carry.

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Students and scholars are taking a renewed interest in an "underdog" method of philosophy that is also uniquely American.

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An innovative federal family support program in Brazil is avoiding local political interference and helping families in that country improve their children's education and gain access to medical care, according to research at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Helen Bader School of Social Welfare provides training for new caseworkers with The Wisconsin Department of Children and Families through the school’s Milwaukee Child Welfare Partnership for Professional Development (MCWPPD). Since 2008, the program has worked with In Tandem Theatre, which supplies actors to play the roles of traumatized adults on the brink of losing their children.

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TCARE Navigator LLC, a Milwaukee start-up company, now has a license agreement with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) Research Foundation (UWMRF) to commercialize an innovative caregiver support system developed at UWM.

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A $3 million commitment from GE Healthcare will support a “first of its kind” talent pipeline for Wisconsin-based medical imaging software developers and researchers, driving the next generation of healthcare technology globally.

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Does the modern model of economic revitalization through hosting the Olympic Games really work for cities?

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When antiquities go MIA, sometimes the sleuthing of a network of scholars can lead to rediscovery . That's what happened recently at the American Geographical Society Library at the UW-Milwaukee.

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Hot, sexy bestsellers like “50 Shades of Grey” offer teaching opportunities, but also challenges, says Robin Poedel, clinical assistant professor of nursing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). The books provoke discussion, but lack of attention to safe sex concerns her. Poedel’s teaching and research focus on sexual behaviors and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs).

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From solutions for urban aquaculture to new centers for Great Lakes genomics and water policy, go inside the largest academic research institution on the Great Lakes - the UW-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences.

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A handful of architecture students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee studied with Marcus Prize winner Diébédo Francis Kéré, an emerging star from the African nation of Burkino Faso whose practice is based in Berlin. Their projects reflected lessons learned from Africa.

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A new catalyst material developed at UW-Milwaukee could dramatically reduce the cost of producing microbial fuel cells.

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The assumption that employees who regularly telecommute will feel less attached to the organization they work for due to feeling isolated and disconnected is a myth, according to a study led by a communication researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM).

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Andy Geiger, former athletic director for five NCAA Division I programs including Ohio State and Stanford University, has been named athletic director at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM).

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Baltimore and Milwaukee are two cities UWM Professor Marc Levine has lived in and researched. So it’s no surprise that Levine’s course based on the HBO series “The Wire” began the university trend of using it to teach urban studies. This semester, the fourth year of Levine’s course, former cast member Sonja Sohn, who played police detective Kima Greggs, made an appearance.

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Women who smoke in pregnancy may be more likely to have a child with high-functioning autism, such as Asperger’s Disorder, according to preliminary findings from a study published online by the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. The study is one of several the journal published April 25 on possible environmental links to autism.

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Scientists and engineers at UWM have discovered an entirely new semiconducting carbon-based material that is synthesized from the “wonder kid” of the carbon family, graphene. It exhibits characteristics that will make it easier to scale up than graphene.

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The study is the first to identify a neurobehavioral effect of BPA using a zebrafish model exposed to concentrations comparable to what humans might encounter in the environment.

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Rakesh Babu, an assistant professor of information studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is exploring ways to make the Internet and computers more accessible for the blind and visually impaired. Babu, who is blind himself, says his research on usability can also provide benefits to computer users with sight.

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Celtic burial mounds in southwest Germany, offer a glimpse of how Iron Age people lived in a time before written records were kept. Using both old-school archaeology and new technology, the researchers were able to reconstruct elements of dress and ornamentation and also social behavior of those aspiring status.

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A fiber-optic water monitoring system developed by a UWM chemist has helped Milwaukee-based Advanced Chemical Systems win a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant. Dougherty licensed the patent from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in January.

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In the first new book on Hoover in 25 years, Glen Jeansonne concludes the blame the president took for the Great Depression was undeserved. Hoover was the first president to pit government action against the economic cycle, setting precedents and spawning ideas employed by his successor and all future presidents.

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The Milwaukee Police Department's program, Students Talking it Over with Police (STOP), is a collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee. The program is designed to change perceptions of inner city youth regarding the police. Two UWM professors have been evaluating STOP’s impact and assisting in replication of the program.

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CareConscious, a North Carolina-based start-up company, has completed a license agreement with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Research Foundation to bring care management tools to family caregivers across the country.

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Ching-Hong Yang, a microbiologist at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has developed a compound that shuts off the “valve” in a pathogen’s DNA that allows it to invade and infect, blocking infection without the threat of antibiotic resistance.

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Despite successful interventions to increase the numbers of women earning degrees in engineering, the field faces a problem retaining those female engineers. The main reason is unrelated to family issues, says a study done at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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Previous research has found that parental status reinforces a range of disparities between men and women. The remedy could be simple empathy, a UWM study suggests.

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Wisconsin’s state animal is protected not because of declining populations but because of a lack of any information about them. Since badgers are so rarely seen in the wild two UWM scientists are studying them using homemade hair snares which allow them to track the small carnivore through the DNA found in their hair.

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UWM researchers discovered that a common beta blocker, used to treat people with hypertension, has shown to be effective in preventing the brain from retrieving memories associated with cocaine use in animal-addiction models.

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Donation earmarked for construction of the new research complex. UWM's Center for Gravitation and Cosmology, which will be housed in the complex, will be named in honor of Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Physics Leonard E. Parker.