Creating Capacity
UChicago researchers and scholars transform the way we see the world. Research, Innovation and National Laboratories provides comprehensive support, guidance and resources to help our researchers advance their work, including connections to world-leading researchers and facilities at Argonne National Laboratory, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Giant Magellan Telescope project.
Resources for Researchers
News
Nigel Lockyer appointed to second term as director of Fermilab
Nigel Lockyer has been reappointed as the director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
Atomic imperfections move quantum communication network closer to reality
An international team led by IME has discovered how to manipulate a weird quantum interface between light and matter in silicon carbide along wavelengths used in telecommunications.
New method promises easier nanoscale manufacturing
UChicago, Argonne scientists create a technique to build nanomaterials into electronic devices
Events
Maria Goeppert-Mayer Lecture: Big Sciences
Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017 4–5:15 p.m.
Kersten Physics Teaching Center
Maria Goeppert-Mayer Lecture Hall
Open to UChicago community and the public
Argonne OutLoud: Nuclear Energy and Technology – from 1942 to the 3rd Millennium
Thursday, October 26, 2017
6 – 8 p.m.
Argonne National Laboratory
Building 240
Registration Required
Physics Colloquium: Impact on University Research
Thursday, November 16
4:00 – 5:15 P.M.
Kersten Physics Teaching Center, Maria Goeppert-Mayer Lecture Hall
5720 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Laboratory Safety
Research safety is essential to the responsible conduct of scientific inquiry. Contact the Office of Research Safety for more resources on campus-wise research laboratory safety, user training and information.
Innovation
Advancing the knowledge and practice of entrepreneurship and accelerating the commercialization of research.
National Laboratories
We manage one of the world’s most preeminent research networks. From historic experiments in nuclear energy, developmental biology, and particle physics to today’s challenges of renewable power, dark matter, and microbial ecology, these institutions have long been at the vanguard of discovery.