Office of Undergraduate Research

Find a Research Project

There are approximately 200 research projects posted by UWM faculty members on this site. Use the links on this page to find projects that interest you. Think expansively. Look beyond your school or college, and think about your passions as well as your major. If you do not find something that interests you, do not despair! If you come to us with specific areas of interest, we can probably find a match for you beyond the projects listed here. If you have questions, just send a quick email to Kyla Esguerra, Associate Director, at kylam@uwm.edu.


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Distill Life and Scripted
The first will be a continuation of the Distill Life series, collaborations with Jessica Meuninck-Ganger where we mount translucent prints to LCD screens creating moving imageTs on paper. As a...   Details

Diversity of Vibrios in the Gulf of Mexico
We are conducting a long-term study of bacterial diversity on the Gulf Coast of Florida, focusing specific attention on the genus Vibrio. The overall purpose is to determine the physical and...   Details

Documentary Projects Outreach
doc|UWM, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukees documentary center, housed inside the Peck School of the Arts Film Department, numerous documentary project in all stages of production and are...   Details

Dual-channel Thermoacoustic Tomography of Healthy and Diseased Tissue Specimens
The overarching goal in this lab is to quantify the thermoacoustic contrast mechanism. Because prostate cancer is notoriously difficult to image with current diagnostic imaging techniques (xray,...   Details

Effect of CO2 on Algae Micro- and Macronutrients
Identify the relative quantities of macro (proteins, carbohydrates and lipids) and micronutrients (Fe,S, P, K, etc.) and their distribution in Algae that have been exposed to ambient and elevated...   Details

Efforts of the Hmong Human Rights Movement to Pass the Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act
The methodology portion of this research will consist of interviews and analysis of secondary sources. The objectives of this research project will be: 1. To conduct interviews with activists in...   Details

Electrical manipulation of nano-wires and carbon nanotubes
Nanotechnology deals with the very diverse areas, and brings enormous changes in many research fields and our normal life. It is a multi-disciplinary field that combines engineering, chemistry,...   Details

Elemental Bodies: A Immersive Installation with Sensor Control
This ongoing art and technology project entails creating a suite of four rooms that are conceptually integrated by metaphors of the skin. The works both represent the skin as a sensory boundary and...   Details

Energy Expenditure during Anaerobic and Aerobic Exercise
Previous work in the Human Performance Laboratory has indicated that exercise thought to be solely anaerobic may indeed utilize a great deal of oxygen. This project will expand on that work and look...   Details

Engineering Microfluidic Device for Mixing Experimentation
Microfluidics deals with the behavior, manipulation, and precise control of fluids at the microscopic level. It is a multi-disciplinary field that combines engineering, chemistry, physics,...   Details