Creating Capacity
UChicago researchers and scholars transform the way we see the world. The Office of Research 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
Krypton reveals ancient water beneath the Israeli desert
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel are collaborating with colleagues at UChicago and Argonne National Laboratory to better understand the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer system.
50 years later, UChicago scientists continue to decode moon’s mysteries
By examining rocks from the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions, scientists from UChicago and Argonne will work to solve lunar mysteries that remain elusive.
Expanding the limits of personalized medicine with high-performance computing
Researchers tapped twin supercomputers at Argonne and the University of Chicago, finding that high-performance computing can yield clues in fighting cancer,
Events
Research Admin Hot Topics Session
August 19, 2019
10 to 11 a.m.
Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery, Room 1103
900 East 57th Street, Chicago
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The POEMMA Project: Multi-Messenger Astronomy from Space
August 28, 2019
4 p.m.
Fermilab
Angela Olinto, the Albert A. Michelson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Dean of the Physical Sciences Division, will discuss the Probe of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA) project.
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Chain Reaction Innovations Demo Day
September 17, 2019
5 to 8:30 p.m.
Gleacher Center, 450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive, Chicago
Six teams from Chain Reaction Innovations, the Entrepreneurship Program at Argonne National Laboratory, will showcase their technologies and emerging companies.
Registration required
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.
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.
UChicago CASE
Learn more about the University of Chicago’s Consortium for Advanced Science and Engineering.