Research
Public engagement a major component of UChicago’s federal stimulus research projects
University of Chicago researchers have received $71.5 million in federal stimulus money as of Sept. 30, according to the office of the Vice President for Research and for National Laboratories.
The Power of Ideas
At the University of Chicago, we take seriously our part in the enormous task of generating new knowledge for the benefit of present and future generations. Our agenda-setting faculty crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries to transform the way we understand business, economics, history, law, literature, religion, physics, chemistry, and biology and medicine, among other fields. In this spirit of discovery, we train future generations of scholars, scientists, educators, and world leaders.
Transformative Technology
As technology pioneers, we are fully engaged in the process of preparing our most beneficial, most practical, and innovative scientific discoveries for the marketplace. As we create new ideas for the marketplace, we also generate revenues for research and education.
National Laboratories
The University of Chicago manages, supports, and engages with two major federal research centers where cutting-edge science is always underway: Argonne National Laboratory and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Together these great laboratories attract $900 million annually in federal research funding and employ 5,000 Illinois residents. Argonne and Fermi are leaders in ensuring U.S. competitiveness in the global economy, and providing unmatched science talent and capacity for our region and its people and economy. The research that takes place in them, often in collaboration with Illinois universities, contributes to our nation’s environmental, energy, and national security.
RESEARCH NEWS
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- From the cornerstone: conservation of the Law School's history
- Lars Peter Hansen named founding director of Milton Friedman Institute for Research in Economics
- Q&A with Wendy Doniger, the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor and author of The Hindus
- Professor, author Mark Slouka argues American education system has become an 'instrument of production'
- High-precision measurements confirm cosmologists' standard view of universe
- Scientists witness nature's complexity unfold in self-assembling quasicrystals
- Protein critical for insulin secretion may be contributor to diabetes
- Growth in secular attitudes leaves Americans room for belief in God