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News
Lia Merminga appointed director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Internationally renowned physicist and scientific leader Lia Merminga has been appointed to lead Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, effective April 18. Merminga will be the seventh director of Fermilab, a 6,800-acre facility headquartered in Batavia, Ill., which...
Startup expansions show how University of Chicago researchers are bringing their work to society
The University of Chicago is renowned for its commitment to field-defining basic research—work that can lay the foundation for development of new products, services and solutions. The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is the central resource for...
RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50% more potatoes, rice
Manipulating RNA can allow plants to yield dramatically more crops, as well as increasing drought tolerance, announced a group of scientists from the University of Chicago, Peking University and Guizhou University. In initial tests, adding a gene encoding for a...
Events
Virtual lecture: AI for Science: From Atoms to the Cosmos
Recorded event
Argonne
Director’s Special Colloquium Celebrating Argonne’s 75th Anniversary
Scientists across the globe are using artificial intelligence (AI) to design better materials and processes, accelerate drug discovery, explore the mysteries of the universe, automate traditional research, and drive an array of scientific discoveries.This colloquium, the fourth in the series celebrating Argonne’s 75th anniversary, will engage a panel of experts to discuss how AI is used in, and has transformed, science.
Conference: Deep Tech U
May 3-5, 2022
Polsky
DeepTechU is a first-of-its-kind venture conference showcasing deep tech innovation and companies emerging from research universities and national labs in the greater Midwest.
This year's DeepTechU Conference will feature multiple panels and keynotes, and showcase innovative new ventures in a variety of industry tracks, such as: energy, hardware/software, industrial, life sciences, and more.
Virtual Lecture: How to Do Big Science Part III
April 22, 2022
Fermilab
In Part III of the How to Do Big Science Series, Deborah Harris, recovering Project Manager of the MINERvA Detector Construction Project and York University professor, shares her experience in a talk called “MINERvA: I Can’t Believe We Built the Whole Thing.”
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.