Important updates on research continuity during the COVID-19 outbreak
Instructions for principal investigators who lead on-campus research teams and laboratories and for directors of on-campus research facilities.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.
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News
UChicago chemists race to decode RNA of new coronavirus
Understanding could boost effectiveness of future COVID-19 vaccine As scientists around the world race to decode the coronavirus that has caused more than 15,000 deaths in a matter of months, a group of University of Chicago chemists are focusing on understanding how...
Karen Kim Appointed Vice Provost for Research
Karen E. Kim, MD, Professor of Medicine in the Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, and Dean for Faculty Affairs for the Division of the Biological Sciences, has been appointed Vice Provost for Research, effective March 9. In this role, she will work...
UChicago infectious disease specialist: What we know about novel coronavirus
UChicago Medicine’s Emily Landon answers common questions about COVID-19 Assoc. Prof. Emily Landon specializes in infectious disease, and serves as medical director of antimicrobial stewardship and infection control at University of Chicago Medicine. A contagious...
Events
REMOTE MEETING: The Evolution of Language
April 1, 2020
4 p.m.
Fermilab
Frederick L. Coolidge, PhD, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Future of the Human: A Conference on Genetic Medicine & Eugenics
April 30, 2020
International House, Assembly Hall
In light of new technologies like CRISPR, the seemingly infinite possibilities of altering the human genome have sparked debate in communities across the globe. Are we reaching new heights in genetic medicine, or are we promulgating eugenics?
ALCF Computational Performance Workshop
May 5, 2020
Argonne National Laboratory
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) is hosting a three-day virtual workshop designed to help researchers boost code performance and achieve computational readiness on ALCF supercomputers.
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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.