University of Chicago—Argonne National Laboratory Joint Centers
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Centers leveraging the resources of the University of Chicago and of Argonne National Laboratory enable cutting-edge research not possible at either institution acting alone. These include:
The Biological Sciences, Health, and Medicine
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Consortium
for Advanced Radiation Sources The goal of CARS is to develop X-ray beam lines at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) and to make them available to the scientific community as National Synchrotron Resources for frontier research. CARS operates three pairs of beamlines, respectively, for biological sciences (BioCARS), chemistry and materials research (ChemMatCARS), and geo-, soil, and environmental science (GSECARS). |
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Emergency
Resuscitation Center at the UofC and Argonne The Emergency Resuscitation Center aims to save 100,000 lives each year by giving emergency care providers more time to resuscitate victims of sudden death due to cardiac arrest back to full human condition. |
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Great
Lakes Regional Center of Excellence (GLRCE) for Biodefense and Emerging
Infectious Diseases The GLRCE, a collaborative effort including researchers from the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Argonne National Laboratory, and 16 additional upper-Midwestern universities, hospitals, and research organizations, will apply the tools of modern science to mankind's battle against infectious disease. |
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Howard
T. Ricketts Regional Biocontainment Laboratory (RBL) The Ricketts Laboratory will be used for basic research on the molecular mechanisms of dangerous infectious diseases, which will improve prevention, intervention, and therapy. While the Ricketts Laboratory will provide an appropriate setting for experimental work proposed in the GLRCE (see above), it will also offer access to other qualified scientists from research institutions and industry. |
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National Microbial Pathogen Data Resource Center (NMPDR) To accelerate research into the biology and evolution of deadly microorganisms and develop methods for their control, the center will provide infectious disease researchers a single Web-based entry point to all relevant organism-related data necessary for their advanced research. It will directly support the national effort to develop new vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics for emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. Read related news story. |
Computation
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Computation
Institute* 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 including the biological, physical, social, and financial sciences, medicine, law, the arts, and the humanities. It is motivated by the tremendous opportunities inherent in new approaches to research based on the large-scale application of computation, data, and communications, and the strategic importance to the University and Argonne of developing the capabilities required to exploit those opportunities. The Computation Institute is focusing its efforts in three principal areas: Deep Supercomputing, Data Intensive Computing, and Next Generation Cybertools. Current centers and projects are listed here. |
Environmental
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Climate Systems Center The Center is interested in the grand challenge problems of climate science from global warming to Neo-proterozoic glaciation to Martian paleoclimate. Because of the complex, nonlinear and interacting nature of the climate system, models play an important role in the subject, so we hope to advance the state of the art in climate simulation software. An additional goal is to smooth the way for small work groups to do climate modeling using atmosphere-ocean general circulation models. |
Physical Sciences Division
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Center
for the Study of Thermonuclear Astrophysical Flashes (FLASH Center) The "FLASH Center" is building a state-of-the-art simulator code for solving nuclear astrophysical problems related to exploding stars. Consult its Web site for information about the astrophysics, the code, and related basic physics and computer science efforts. |
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Consortium
for Advanced Radiation Sources Please see above, under The Biological Sciences, Health, and Medicine. |
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Consortium for Nanoscience
Research* The University of Chicago-Argonne National Laboratory Consortium for Nanoscience Research (CNR) provides a focal point for fundamental interdisciplinary research at the intersection of biology, chemistry, materials science, and physics. |
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Joint Institute for Nuclear
Astrophysics JINA, an NSF Physics Frontier Center, is a collaborative effort of the University of Notre Dame, the University of Chicago, and Michigan State University in conjunction with Argonne National Laboratory. The scientific goal of the institute is to study the diverse nuclear processes that provide energy generation in stars, trigger supernova events, and are responsible for the synthesis of heavy elements in astrophysical environments. |
*Centers denoted with an asterisk report directly to the Vice President for Research and for National Laboratories.
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