Affiliations and Joint Appointments
Joint appointments and other forms of less formal affiliation are a powerful means of enabling complex projects, achieving a critical mass of expertise, and attracting the very best people to the Chicago area. Some examples include:
Evolutionary Biology
Over a dozen affiliations with the Field Museum, Brookfield Zoo, and Lincoln Park Zoo, including the Provost of the Field Museum, make Chicago one of the world’s most powerful centers for evolutionary biology.
Argonne National Laboratory
Some six-dozen joint appointments, including the Director, the Deputy Lab Director for Science Programs and an Associate Laboratory Director of Argonne provide mutual strength in accelerator physics, computational science, nanoscience, nuclear physics, theoretical physics, and other areas. View information on the Joint Appointment Policy for Argonne (pdf).
Fermilab
The Deputy Director of Fermilab is a joint appointee. A University-Fermilab collaboration in the field of Theoretical Cosmology was established over 20 years ago and continues to be a power in the field.
Computational and Computer Science
Joint appointments and affiliations bring together the world-class computer, computational, and disciplinary science expertise of Argonne, the Toyota Technological Institute and the University.
- The University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory Computation Institute addresses the most challenging problems arising in the use of strategic computation and communications across a broad spectrum of intellectual activities
- The "FLASH Center" is building a state-of-the-art simulator code for solving nuclear astrophysical problems related to exploding stars.
Adler Planetarium
Affiliations with the University enable Adler Planetarium research and docent staff to keep up with rapidly moving research in the field, while providing the University with access to vigorous public education and amateur scientist programs.
Currently, the University has affiliations or joint appointments with:
- Adler Planetarium
- Argonne National Laboratory
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Brookfield Zoo
- Center for Integrative Neuroscience and Neuroengineering
- Center for Research Libraries
- Chapin Hall Center for Children
- Chicago Biomedical Consortium
- Consortium on Chicago School Research
- Disciples Divinity House
- Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Field Museum
- Great Lakes Regional Center of Excellence (GLRCE) for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Lincoln Park Zoo
- NORC (formerly the National Opinion Research Center)
- Orthogenic School
- Toyota Technological Institute
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