Seeds of collaboration

摘要

Chicago, popularly known for its gangsters, sports fans and deep-dish pizza, also has a duster of impressive research institutions that often get overshadowed by the elite universities on both US coasts. But now, the city's biggest research players are beginning to team up, combining their time, talent and collective strengths to earn serious federal funding. In the past year, the Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), the University of Chicago and Northwestern University have landed four of 46 Department of Energy (DOE) 'Energy Frontier Research Center' (EFRC) grants worth $ 19 million apiece, as well as several US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF) awards worth $10 million or more.