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University of Chicago Harkins Lecture: Professor Michel Orrit: Leiden Univerisity, “Single-Molecule Optics: A Window on Structure and Dynamics”

Nov 15, 2010

“Single-Molecule Optics: A Window on Structure and Dynamics”

Fermilab Lecture Series: How To Make (Almost) Anything

Nov 12, 2010

A Fab Lab (fabrication laboratory) is a small-scale workshop with computer controlled tools that enable individuals to make “almost anything.” Prof. Neil Gershenfeld’s revolutionary laboratory is breaking down boundaries between the digital and physical worlds…

Save the Plants; Save the Planet

Nov 3, 2010

Dr. Havens will discuss the work of the Plant Science and Conservation Center at the Chicago Botanic Garden in understanding and conserving plants in the natural world and the design of its new sustainable laboratory, which earned LEED Gold certification.

Eighth Annual CBC Symposium “Protein Folding and Misfolding in Health and Disease”

Oct 29, 2010

Friday, October 29, 2010 9:00 a.m. – 5:45 p.m. Ida Noyes Hall, University of Chicago Campus 1212 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637 The mission of the Chicago Biomedical Consortium (CBC) is to stimulate collaboration among scientists at Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois at Chicago that will transform research [...]

The Long Thaw: How Humans are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate

Oct 22, 2010

The “lifetime” of fossil fuel CO2 in the atmosphere is a complicated question because there are multiple processes operating, but in general the CO2 concentration will be higher than natural for hundreds of thousands of years.