Features
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New water industry partnership
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A project to develop a microbial desalination cell is the second formal research collaboration between a water-related business and UWM since the creation of UWM’s graduate-level School of Freshwater Sciences just under a year ago.
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Building the water generation
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UWM robot competition challenges high schoolers to explore the deep--and water careers.
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NSF backs UWM-led freshwater research
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The National Science Foundation has awarded UWM and Marquette University $675,000 over five years to form an Industry & University Cooperative Research Center in Milwaukee centered on advancing freshwater research and spurring economic growth.
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Students design, build surf-zone robot
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Building a robot may seem like the stuff of science fiction or childhood dreams. But for a group of students at UWM, it’s all in a day’s work.
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New local partnership to develop water technology
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The UWM Research Foundation has brokered an agreement with Milwaukee-based Advanced Chemical Systems, Inc., which is interested in research developed by a UWM scientist – a fiber optic sensor system for water quality monitoring.
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How a small mussel is turning a Great Lake upsidedown
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Scientists Carmen Aguilar and Russell Cuhel have found evidence that the invasive quagga mussel is rearranging the natural order of Lake Michigan—from the food web to the water's biochemical composition.
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Building our new schools of Public Health and Freshwater Sciences
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The fields of freshwater science and public health often intersect—a point reflected in UWM's simultaneous creation of two new graduate schools.
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UWM donates fish to hunger task force
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Today the WATER Institute is donating about 500 pounds of processed and packaged yellow perch filets that were raised at its aquaculture center to the Hunger Task Force of Milwaukee.
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Undergrad researchers learning outside the classroom
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UWM undergraduate students have found that a passion for hands-on work in their fields can develop into national recognition, better job and graduate school opportunities, and deepened learning experiences.
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UWM's high-tech buoy network monitors Lake Michigan 24-7
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The Great Lakes Urban Coastal Observing System (GLUCOS) buoy network allows scientists to be, at any given moment, nearly everywhere on the lake at once, tracking long-term water conditions or monitoring ecological events.
