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Illinois Research and
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- Managed by the University of Chicago as part of
the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) national
laboratory system.
- Conducts basic and applied scientific research
across a wide spectrum of disciplines, including
nanotechnology, grid computing, materials science
and biological science.
- Facility is open to researchers from industry,
universities and other laboratories across the
nation.
- Since 1990, Argonne has worked with more than
600 companies and numerous federal agencies and
other organizations to help advance America's
scientific leadership and prepare the nation for the
future.
- Long standing culture of outreach to, and
inclusion of, the academic and industrial
communities in support of regional and national
goals and strategic interests.
- Home to the Advanced Photon Source, which
generates the country's most brilliant x-ray beams,
which permit the examination of materials in greater
detail, in shorter times and with smaller sample
sizes.
- Scheduled to open August 2006 at Argonne
National Laboratory, CNM is one of five nanoscale
centers proposed by the USDOE and will provide the
environment and equipment necessary to examine the
structure and properties of material on a nanoscale.
- A joint partnership between DOE and the State of
Illinois, as part of DOE's Nanoscale Science
Research Center program.
- Serves as a user-based center, providing tools
and infrastructure for nanoscience and
nanotechnology research with centralized facilities,
controlled environments, technical support and
scientific staff open to outside users from a wide
range of scientific fields.
- Cross-disciplinary approach to nano-related
research allows researchers work at the leading edge
of science and technology to develop capabilities
and knowledge that complement those of industry.
- World-class scientific research facility funded
by the DOE on a 6,800 acre site in Batavia.
- Employs 2,100 people, and is host to almost
3,000 national and international scientists and
students who take part in the lab's experiments.
- Provides leadership and resources for qualified
researchers to conduct basic research at the
frontiers of high-energy physics and related
disciplines.
- Collaborates closely with scientists from
industry and universities around the world to
develop new technologies and advance the
understanding of the fundamental nature of matter
and energy.
- Innovative accelerator research, superconducting
magnet development and advancements in particle
physics technology have led to societal benefits in
health, security and economic well-being.
- Funded by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture and located in Peoria.
- Maintains the world-renowned ARS Microbial Culture
Collection, including the ARS Patent Culture Collection.
- Conducts basic and applied science techniques focused
on metabolic engineering and fermentation, food safety
and environmental quality and biomaterials and
processing technologies.
- Researchers from nearly a dozen scientific disciplines
work collaboratively with universities, private
industry, trade associations and other government
agencies to develop new technologies.
- Provides a pilot plant with 65,000 sq. ft. of labs for
scale up research and concept demonstration, supported
by in-house expertise and specialized labs for materials
preparation, testing and evaluation.
- Located at University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign.
- World-renowned for its work in high-performance
computing, networking, storage, data mining and
scientific visualization.
- NCSA is a partner in the TeraGrid project, an
initiative to build and deploy cyberinfrastructure
for open scientific research.
- Established as an umbrella organization for the
multimillion dollar nanotechnology research efforts
at Northwestern University in partnership with
Argonne National Laboratory.
- The Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular
Self-Assembly - a $34 million, 40,000 square foot
state-of-the-art facility was recently constructed
on the Evanston campus.
- The Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign is an interdisciplinary research
institute devoted to basic research in the physical
sciences, computation, engineering, biology, behavior,
and cognition.
- Interdisciplinary research conducted at the Beckman
Institute focuses on three broadly defined Research
Initiatives: Biological Intelligence, Human-Computer
Intelligent Interaction, and Molecular and Electronic
Nanostructures.
- The Institute for Genomic Biology at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was
established in 2003 to advance life science research
and stimulate bio-economic development in the state
of Illinois.
- Construction of the $75 million, 186,000 square
foot state-of-the-art IGB facility began in April
2004. When complete in mid-2006, the facility will
house up to 400 researchers in three broad Program
Areas: Systems Biology, Cellular and Metabolic
Engineering and Genome Technology.
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