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...
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...
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...
Modern society is now starting to feel the real-world effects of climate change, after more than a century of unrestrained carbon emissions, overuse of natural resources, and irresponsible production of material waste. The rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide has...
The first-ever joint symposium hosted by the University of Chicago and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) on April 30 highlighted an ambitious initiative that funds collaborative research involving students and faculty from a wide range of...
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...
