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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...