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Architecture
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Four interlocking topic areas: Sustainability, Landscape Urbanism,
Integrated Practice, and a newly focused Building, Landscapes, Cultures area of Ph.D.
research.
- Emerging field of research on the impact of information technology on architectural
practice.
-The integration of sustainability criteria into BIM software
- Impact of advanced fabrication technologies on design
- Proposing to create a Great Lakes Consortium of regional design programs to pursue
regional research opportunities
- New doctoral program initiative on vernacular cultural landscapes, Midwest landscapes
and housing.
-Institute for Ecological Design,
-Integrated Practice
-Collaborative work dealing with issues of material design and fabrication, architecture
and industrial production.
-Landscape Urbanism
-Possible collaborative work with the Great Lakes Water Institute and any future School
of Freshwater Sciences.
-Community Design Center and Institute for Historic Preservation will expand and re-
locate into an off-campus facility
-Pre-design planning for non-profit and community-based organizations will expand as a
priority
-Emphasis on urban analysis
-Milwaukee as an Urban Lab
-Increased Federal government funding for sustainability issues broadly and specifically
for carbon neutral building design
-Sustainability issues relating to Great Lakes Compact and watershed development
-The Institute for Ecological Architecture
-Solar Decathlon Initiative
-UWM Integrated Design Lab
-Underwritten by State Public Benefits Funds
-Sponsored design studio research
-Professional consulting; to triple in five years.
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Urban Planning
New Research programs in the next 5 years:
-Economy and Environment
-Intersection of sustainability and economy in urban areas
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Dance
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Movement and Learning project with MPS funded by a $50,000 grant from the Helen
Bader Foundation.
-American Masters Dance: College Component Grant for $10,000
-Department of Dance is stepping up efforts to establish endowed commissioning funds
from private donors
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Film
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Film/Video/New Genres track
-Film Wisconsin organization
-Newly approved tax incentives will open many pathways for media arts production in
the state
-docUWM is collaborating with CEAS on a new project, "Drive by Stories," involving
GPS technology and personal narratives. A goal of the project is to develop a business
spinoff.
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Theatre
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Music theatre program
-Ticket revenue
-Research in the area of impact, integration, and urban development will provide
significant research and applied research opportunities
-Growth of production programs
-Advanced performing arts technology
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Music
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Cultural studies, critical thinking in musical arts, world music studies to enhance and
expand the undergraduate degree in music history & ethnomusicology
-Expansion and development of computer assisted composition, software development,
and live performance. Significant growth potential for performer-technology real-time
performance, and inter-media arts development.
-Undergraduate and graduate research with the NEA, NEH, Meet the Composer
-New compositions for chamber music ensembles
-NEH application for support of Arts & Cultural studies in Music History,
Anthro-ethnomusicoligist, and critical studies in popular musical culture
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Visual Art
New research program in the next 5 years:
-Start the Design Research Institute at Kenilworth Square East
-Create a Technology Studio in the Design Research Institute with combined 2D and 3D
output
-Art Teacher identities
-Design
-Jewelry & Metalsmithing
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Social Work
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-New collaborations with criminal justice, public health
-Continued growth in research in aging, child welfare and substance abuse
-We anticipate continuing to increase our research funding 10-20% per year
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Criminal Justice
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Evaluation research in Milwaukee Public School
-Evaluation of Milwaukee Co. Drug Treatment Court
-HIDTA linked research
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Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Research projects focusing on global competitiveness, international entrepreneurship
corporate ventures and innovation. Real-time enterprises research program linking
factory floor to corporate decision-making and enhancing manufacturing
competitiveness. Software and manufacturing informatics
-Diversity and mentoring and how race, ethnicity, gender, immigrant, and
socioeconomic status influences UWM graduates' career success. Women's entry and
progress in engineering careers. Interdisciplinary work regarding organization
environmental uncertainty and typical, extreme, rare and outlier organizations is
underway
-Executives backdating options
-Greater research emphasis on global dimensions of business, management and
competitiveness.
-Greater emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration with other UWM units as well as
within the Lubar School.
-Exploration of opportunities in the areas of health care information systems, informatics
and information security.
-Greater emphasis on manufacturing and business competitiveness issues.
-Greater emphasis on managerial issues pertaining to diversity, ethics, and changing
organizational environment.
-Cross-cultural teams
-Issues related to architecting a real time enterprise
-Service oriented architecture with special focus on small and medium businesses
-At the end of the next 5 years, externally funded research from all sources is projected to
be twice the current level in 2007-08.
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Administrative Leadership
New research programs in the next 5 years:
Urban Institute for Lifelong Learning and Leadership
-Research on outcomes of workforce development and training related to economic
Development
-Research in impact of technology on lifelong learning
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Curriculum and Instruction
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Research ion the recruitment and retention of urban teachers
-Student achievement/achievement gaps in urban schools,
-English Language Learners, the small high school initiative and its relationship to
teacher preparation, literacy and mathematics in urban schools
-Differences in achievement (teaching and learning) between charter, choice and public
schooling in the urban area, and how teachers grow in their understanding of critical
issues of diversity in urban school settings
-STEM education
-Focus on STEM and related research/programs in the area of science, technology,
engineering and mathematics will increase in the next five years
-Student outcomes in classrooms as a result of teacher performance
-Issues of access, equity and closing the achievement gaps in our urban schools
-Instructional technology
-Significant increase in research funding for STEM
-Increase in funding to support research on assessment of the performance of children
-Increase of funding to support research on ELL student populations
-Corporate sector
-Employability
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Educational Psychology
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Trauma in urban populations Career development of racial/ethnic minorities
-Improving adherence in chronically-ill pediatric populations Ethnic identity and
retention of ethnic minority college students
-Motivation and achievement processes in inner city children Racial and cultural
socialization patterns and adolescent adjustment
-Evaluating efforts to increase student achievement in mathematics Improving
appropriate measurement and interpretation of students performance in testing situations
-Increased usage of ethnographical research Interest in identifying neurological markers
for learning, cognitive, and motivational processes
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Educational Policy and Community Studies
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Child Care
-Policy and Leadership in Community Based Organizations
-Community organizing and social action
-Anti-racist education
-Alternative education
-Social action and democracy
-History of African Americans in Milwaukee
-African American Politics in Milwaukee
-African Americans and Aging
-Bilingual education and U.S. Mexico Relations
-At-risk students and education
-Service learning
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Exceptional Education
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Interpreter Training (ITP)
- (ASL) Studies
-support research initiatives in the study of ASL language development and second
language learning, ASL teacher education, interpreter education, and deaf studies
-School reform and special education policy, assessment, teacher education and
induction, alternative certification, charter schools, inclusive education, multi-cultural
special education, technology and teaching are anchors for faculty scholarship, research
and extramural funding support
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Civil Engineering and Mechanics
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Water Resources and environmental engineering: Freshwater engineering
-Nano-technologies
-Industrial floor
-Cement and concrete industry; industrial by-product and waste utilization
-Biomedical engineering research, Biomechanics, experimental research, Response of
structures to fire and earthquakes
-Green construction and eco-materials
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Computer Science
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Databases, Data Mining, Software Engineering, Computer Graphics, and
Computational Robotics
-Expanding the research to applications, especially in the Biomedical domain in
collaboration with industry and MCW
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Electrical Engineering
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Biomedical imaging
-Biomedical materials and devices area are in fabrication of micron-scale and
-Nano-scale biosensors
-Strength in power electronics (e.g. transcutaneous transmission of electric power for
medical devices) and motion analysis novel magnetic-based
-Microdevices, microelectronic biosensors and vision-based unmanned aerial vehicle
navigation is underway
-Nanothechnology & photonics; nanowires, carbon nanotubes, fabri
-Formation of biomedical engineering program in the near future
-Photoacoustic technique to molecular imaging and
-Consider its application to brain activities/neuronal-vascular coupling as well as diabatic
retinopathy study. Another focus for the department is on manufacturing
-Intelligent sensors collecting steady supply and distribution flows
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Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Real-time control of a global manufacturing enterprise
-Green manufacturing
-Resource management in health care systems with the objectives of cost reduction and
improving patient satisfaction intermodal container
-Transshipment at major deep-sea ports and the several rail terminals in Chicago
-Apply industrial engineering and operations research principles to problems in
biomedical engineering and health care systems
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Materials
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Development of advanced nano-structures in metallic, ceramic and polymeric materials
-Design of novel and advanced biomaterials for applications in the human body
environment Design and applications of biomimetic and hybrid materials to replicate
biological materials and to effectively build an interface between biological materials and
inert materials.
-Computational materials for the simulation and design of new/advanced materials using
first principles.
-Manufacturing of advanced materials with outstanding properties using microstructure-
processing-performance-properties relationships.
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Mechanical Engineering
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Nanotechnology
-Green manufacturing
-Renewable energy
-Polymer science and engineering
-Advanced automation and sensors
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Communication Sciences & Disorders
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Motor control
-Effects of aging on the motor control of swallowing and voice production; the incidence
of swallowing disorders in children
-Role of auditory input on speech motor control
-Neuroimaging: fMRI, MEG, and EEG studies of cortical and subcortical activity to
investigate neural control mechanisms for speech via auditory feedback
-Literacy
-Health literacy in urban populations, literacy development in normally-developing
children; emergent literacy for low-income or at-risk children as well as children with
disabilities; and effects of parent/caregiver modeling on literacy
-Literacy development in bilingual children
-Maternal depression: effects on children's language development
-Creating a database for children with disabilities in
-Milwaukee County is ready for implementation. We will soon be able to track
-Outcomes and assess efficacy of services to county children with disabilities
-Outcomes for children with severe disorders who use Augmentative and Alternative
Communication (AAC)
-Speech, language, and cognitive capabilities of bilingual and second language learners:
research will include work with bilingual children with disabilities and second language-
learning adults to determine the effects of bilingualism on understanding abstract
concepts, social pragmatics, and cognitive skills
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Health Sciences
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Translational biomedical informatics
-Nutrition area; autoimmune diseases
-Environmental factors that influence the immune system and with biomarkers and assays
that predict disease progression
-Healthcare economics
-Clinical decision support research
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Human Movement Sciences
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Increase research examining diseases and conditions that affect public health, including
but not limited to: obesity, orthopedic instability, type 2 diabetes, mental illness, and
cardiovascular disease.
-Increase research focusing on neuroscience, including but not limited to: cognitive and
mental health outcomes, motor control/learning, and rehabilitation.
-Increase research focusing on general health, wellness, & human performance across the
lifespan.
-Enhance our focus on biomedical research & development.
-Increase the use oftechnology in our biopsychosocial translational research (e.g., online
recruitment and data collection, web-based interventions, clinical tools/techniques for
rehabilitation, etc.).
-Increase the integration of nutrition-related constructs into basic and applied Kinesiology
research
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Occupational Therapy
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Assistive technology outcomes and rehabilitation design
-Population-based rehabilitation outcomes research and health services research in
rehabilitation and disability; ergonomics; safe patient handling, ergonomics in health care
and rehabilitation design
-Care quality and interventions for children with special needs
-Drinking, behavioral, and mental health
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Information Studies
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Education and youth studies is likely to become a research strength
-SOIS will likely focus on health as the content of research in existing department
strengths related to theory, principles and function
-Organization of information
-Information policy
-Information retrieval
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Nursing
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Genetics/genomics
-Management of chronic
-Conditions in children and adults
-Health care systems/cost
-Minority health
-Health information technology
-Community engagement in the research process, including community-based
participatory research (CBPR) and population health
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Art History
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Obtain funding for preservation, maintenance and exhibition programming in Art
History Gallery
-UWM Art Collection
-Increase the already-strong relationship with Milwaukee Art Museum
-Research devoted to African Art
-African Diaspora
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French, Italian, and Comparative Literature
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Translation
-Religious Studies
-Francophone Literature and Culture
-French language
-Pedagogy
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Communication
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Public awareness of scientific information partnered with the Fresh Water Program and
School of Public Health
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Philosophy
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Ethics Social
-Political Philosophy History of Philosophy Logic
-Philosophy of Science Philosophy of Language
-Mind Metaphysics, Epistemology
-Philosophy of Religion
-Metaphysics
-Epistemology
-Philosophy of Religion
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English
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Writing (creative, professional, experimental, digital, rhetorical)
-Literature (narrative, textuality, intertextuality, Global English)
-Media Studies and Digital Humanities (visual culture, the study and application of
information technologies in the context of traditional, emergent, and experimental
humanities concerns)
-Digital humanities research
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Spanish & Portuguese
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Medical Spanish (and/or translation) initiatives
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Biological Sciences
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Neuroscience research program will expand in recognition of increased departmental
faculty strength in areas of basic cell physiology and eukaryotic molecular biology to
form a "Cell and Molecular Neurobiology and Physiology" (CMNP) group.
-Neuroscience faculty will seek to expand departmental strength in molecular signaling,
neuroendocrinology, and developmental neurobiology (cells, genes)
-Biomedical aspects of animal development and on environmental health issues related to
xenobiotic chemicals and metabolic disorders
-Integrative systems biology approach
-Whole-ecosystem experimental approaches
-Emerging interest in biofuels and bioremediation
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Mathematical Sciences
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Quantitative Risk Management; Actuarial Science, Financial
Mathematics, Health Risk Management
-Bio-Math interdisciplinary program, including Mathematical and Computational
Biology, Biostatistics, Mathematical Medicine, Mathematical Ecology
-Tropical Meteorology as a research area in Atmospheric Sciences
-Continuing expansion into Representation Theory, Algebraic Geometry and Geometric
Group Theory, with applications in Mathematical Physics
-Computational and Applied Mathematics, Dynamics growth in connections with
Biological Sciences and Medicine
-Probability & Statistics increased emphasis on financial and medical applications,
including data analysis; a focused research group in analysis of stochastic systems
-Analysis and Differential Equations broadening research, expansion of Geometric
Analysis
-Atmospheric Science ever greater emphasis on numerical models and data analysis;
climate dynamics;
-Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL)
-Actuarial Science
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Chemistry & Biochemistry
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Translation research
-Movement toward bridging basic research and commercial development of products
-The principle is to bring together multiple, apparently disparate research programs to
contribute to a defined objective, such as the further development of a promising group of
molecules for therapeutic use
-Interdisciplinary areas of Environmental Sciences, Drug Development, and Materials
Science
-Membrane transport/receptor interactions
-Structural biology
-Main group chemistry
-Biomaterials
-Scanning probe microscopy
-Experimental atmospheric dynamics
-Mass spectrometry
-Chemical education
-Computational materials
-Pharmaceuticals
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Physics
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Advanced Molecular Sciences
-Medical Imaging
-Neutrino Astrophysics
-Soft Condensed Matter Physics
-Radio Astronomy
-Nanophysics
-Expansion of Particle Physics, Astronomy, Medical Imaging, Biophysics, Optics,
Condensed Matter Physics, Surface Science and Gravitational Physics.
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Geosciences
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Global geologic resources, energy, minerals and most importantly water
-How climate change affects my ability to obtain sufficient water, food, energy and
mineral resources from my local environment
-Establish 3 distinct but inter-related research groups working to address the effects of
climate-driven environmental change on the availability of fundamental geologic
resources
-Sedimentology group will investigate past environmental changes that influenced the
Earth as recorded in the geologic record.
-Hydrology group’s goal is to develop the means to predict the effects of climate change
on the availability and quality of local water resources
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Africology
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-HIV/AIDS in west (Aborampah), central (Wilson) and southern (Kirk) Africa
-Urban youth and space, family, education, and race
-A substantial relationship with the proposed School of Freshwater Sciences, in reference
to potable freshwater on the African Continent, especially Equatorial Africa
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Journalism & Mass Communication
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Media research center
-Media law, media ethics, media studies, digital media
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Anthropology
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Central Quintana Roo Mayan Archaeology Program
-X-ray Fluorescence and Petrographyic Research Facility
-Milwaukee County Institutional Grounds History and Osteology Program
-Museum Studies and Effigy Mound Synthesis
-Paleobotanical Research Laboratory
-Biomedical Anthropology Program
-Pharmaceuticals and Public Health
-Ethnocosmogenesis Native American Language Revitalization Project
-Andalusian Studies Project
-Digital Ethnography Project
-Conservation Genetics of Southern African Primates
-GIS Research in Anthropology
-New Orleans Reconstruction and Development
-Biodiversity Conservation and Genetic Management
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Political Science
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Strengthen its orientation to new methodological techniques in political science research
-Center for the Study of Democracy
-Ethnic conflict
-Impact of governmental turnover on the rule of law in developing countries
-Municipal elections
-Gender and politics
-Public's perception of federal courts
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Psychology
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Emotion
-Neuroscience
-Cognitive Neuroscience
-Behavior Analysis
-Broadening the neuroscience component of the department to include greater emphasis
on cellular and molecular neurobiology.
-Developing a cluster of faculty in the area of affective neuroscience that have a
multipronged approach to studying emotion.
-Increasing existing strengths in cognitive neuroscience and connections with functional
brain imaging at the Medical College of Wisconsin
-Specializing in behavior treatment provision (e.g., for autism) that will lead to certified
behavior therapists
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Geography
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Uconomic development
-Advanced spatial information research
-Non-profit Management
-Urban water policy
-Public health
-Medical geographer
-GIS and applied geospatial technology
-Geovisualization
-GIS applications in environmental and public health
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Sociology
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Increased research related to the collection and analysis or large scale surveys
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Center for Alternative Fuels
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Manufacturing alternative fuels such as ethanol
-Renewable energy sources
-Incorporating these sources on a larger scale into the electricity grid
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Center for By-Products Utilization
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Global climate change and sustainable developments
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Decision Systems and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Medical informatics
-Structure of biomedical texts, the best ways to mine knowledge from it, and the best
ways to represent that knowledge
-Automatic mining of data
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Multimedia Software Laboratory
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Biomedical engineering
-We hope to begin work on software to better support electric medical records
-Software reliability
-Interactive tools for managing large collections of documents (for software for medicine,
for government
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Center for Transportation Studies
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Freight transportation
-Traffic engineering
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Center for Information Policy Research
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Intercultural information ethics research and scholarship
-Internet research ethics scholarship
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Helen Bader Institute for Nonprofit Management
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Interdisciplinary field of nonprofit and philanthropic studies
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Bostrom Cnt for Business Competitiveness, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Real time enterprises research program
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Center for Nursing Research and Evaluation
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-A focus on information technology
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Institute for Urban Health Partnerships
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Childhood obesity
-Population based strategies for adolescent pregnancy prevention
-Population strategies for environmental health
-Reductions in infant mortality
-Community based participatory research
-Expand and test applications of health information technology to document community -
based nursing practice and client outcomes.
-Expand research in health promotion interventions to address health disparities in
cancer, CVD and diabetes.
-Expand outcomes research on community-based nurse case management on adults with
chronic disease
-Expand School based health intervention strategies
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Rehabilitation Research Design and Disability Center
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Assistive technology outcomes research
-Creating next generation assessment tools, mostly web and hand-held computer based
instruments such as with the iPhone
-Bifocal effect studies will generate a new level of enthusiasm around our gait and brain
imaging work
-Universal design attention in the educational setting
-Technology implements e.g. podcasting, clickers, vodcasting, cyber-instruction (both
on-line and hybrid education)
-Head injuries and amputations IEDs, and many thousands more with sustained post-
traumatic-stress disorders; veterans
-Translational research
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Center for Urban Population Health
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Maternal and infant health
-Youth violence and violent crime prevention
-Healthy aging
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Center for Architecture and Urban Planning Research
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Many areas related to sustainability and the built environment, culture & the built
environment, GIS studies and transportation, aging in place, health and the built
environment
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Institute on Visual Arts
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-A concentration on solo shows for under-recognized major artists
-Expansion of our international focus
-Establishment of an artist residency program that will utilize studio and living space in
Kenilworth,
-Provide another curricular interface with the Depts. of Visual Art & Film -raise Inova's
national and international profile
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Leonard Sorkin International Institute on Chamber Music
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-ICM could support a string quartet, brass & wind quintets, and mixed ensembles, as well
as an ICM-affiliated composer to create new chamber music and assist with
contemporary music outreach projects
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Center for Celtic Studies
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Celtic language musical traditions
-Preservation and dissemination of language and music archives
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Center for Women’s Studies
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Research on women and gender directly benefiting the local community (Milwaukee,
southeastern Wisconsin) and research assessing globalization’s impact on women’s lives
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Center for International Education
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-More focused internationalization of sciences, engineering and health professions
-Development studies; expansion of existing research on technology, interdisciplinary,
the physical and built environments
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Institute on Survey and Policy Research
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Economic growth potential of Wisconsin’s economy
-Serve Schools of Fresh Water and Public Health
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Center for Addiction and Behavioral Health Research
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Research focused on prevention issues with adolescent and young adult populations
(including the prevention of mental health problems and violence).
-Research focused on evaluating substance abuse and mental health related interventions
for reentering criminal justice offenders.
-Research focused on Native American mental health and substance abuse problems.
-Research focused on screening and brief intervention for addictions in primary care
settings.
-Research focused on the HIV/AIDS epidemic and particularly how it affects the
behavior of high risk populations.
-Research that involves (more) linkages with researchers focused on the physiology of
addictions and mental disorders.
-Increase research targeted to underserved populations (i.e., the urban poor, minorities,
Spanish Speaking, and Native American populations)
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Center for Age and Community
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-We will continue to grow our work in conducting and translating research into
innovative care practices in the areas of design (architecture); community-based care
(family and informal caregiving); and maximizing cognitive and physical fitness among
older adults.
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Center for Workforce Development
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-We are moving from critiquing workforce development to working with the system to
systematically analyze it and help it to develop into a far more effective system than it
has been before. We are involved in day-to-day activities with the actors, building trust
and the case of the need for continuing research. This is expected to build the flow of
external funds to a variety of projects that focus on workforce issues.
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Center for Consumer Affairs
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Consumer financial services and alternative dispute resolution
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Small Business Development Center
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Development of growth oriented entrepreneurs and small and medium enterprises
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Youth Work Learning Center
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Applied evaluation and development of models of effective human service practice and
training evaluation
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WATER Institute/SFS
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-New vs. significantly expanded research programs are somewhat difficult to separate.
-The expanded category would include: High resolution, in situ environmental
observations Impacts of emerging environmental contaminants, especially in aquatic
systems _ i.e. pharmaceuticals, nanoparticles, personal care products Healthy Food
production from freshwater aquaculture technology, urban aquaculture, environmentally
sustainable and biosecure aquaculture Freshwater system dynamics, including
biogeochemical cycles, changing ecosystem dynamics, hydrologic cycles and water
supplies, food web dynamics, etc. Climate change dynamics on Great Lakes systems
Freshwater systems and human and ecosystem health Anthropogenic impacts and
sustainability of the urban coastal environment Research science education and ocean
literacy
-The new category would include: Novel system modeling, including ecosystem models,
data assimilation models, genomic and bioinformatics computational models Freshwater
policy economics of freshwater resource use and management, valuation systems and
metrics, policy formulation, legal issues, risk and risk assessment Emerging water-borne
diseases, e.g. Viral hemorrhagic septicemia
-Aquaculture and water security/sustainability
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Laboratory for Surface Studies
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Atomic- and nano-scale science.
-The research programs will evolve to encompass the frontiers connecting materials
science and biology, areas which some of our members are already entering, and research
involving energy independence.
-Nanoscience, material science, spintronics, as well as more traditional surface and
interface science
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Center for 21st Century Studies
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Every two years, the Center for 21st Century Studies chooses a research theme
sufficiently broad to accommodate participation from many different disciplines
-The Center will seek to organize, and fund, more of these public programs in
collaboration with organizations and individuals from outside UWM
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School of Public Health
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Environmental health
-Social and behavioral health
-Epidemiology,
-Health disparities
-Biostatistics
-Health policy and administration
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Master of Arts in Foreign Languages and Literature
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Medical interpreting and translation focusing on the Spanish and Hmong-speaking
populations, with a view to expanding to include Russian,
Polish, Somali, Haitian Creole
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Religious Studies
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Religious cultures and histories including ancient world religions, early Christian,
Islamic and Judaic studies,
-Religion and the Arts, especially in relation to literary arts and visual culture
-To explore possibilities for interdisciplinary, cross-school research in Religion and the
Performing Arts, particularly in the area of music and performance
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Clinical and Translational Science Institute
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Solving complex medical problems
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Foreign Language & Linguistics
New research programs in the next 5 years:
-Linguistics
-Instruction in critical languages and language pedagogy
-Impact of globalization and technology on language instruction
-Continued emphasis on pedagogical innovations technology and international
collaboration