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October 9, 2007

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Three new members join Board of Governors for Argonne
UChicago Argonne, LLC has named Harry Davis, the Roger L. and Rachel M. Goetz Distinguished Service Professor of Creative Management for the University of Chicago's GSB, Susan Eisenhower, President of the Eisenhower Group, Inc, and Edward Snyder, Dean and the George Pratt Shultz Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Business to its Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory.
 
The Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory is appointed by the UChicago Argonne, LLC, the organization selected by the U. S. Department of Energy to manage and operate Argonne. UChicago Argonne, LLC provides oversight to the Laboratory through its Board of Governors. The Board of Governors helps oversee and guide Argonne research, operations and management. Members of the board are chosen from faculty, administrators and trustees of the University of Chicago, from other universities, from national and international organizations, and from industry.

Harry Davis is the Roger L. and Rachel M. Goetz Distinguished Service Professor of Creative Management for the University of Chicago's GSB. He has been a member of the GSB faculty since 1963. In addition to his research and teaching in the areas of consumer behavior, marketing management, business strategy, new product development, industrial marketing, leadership, and creativity, he has introduced many innovative executive education programs in the U.S. and abroad including: the first core leadership program of any top-rated MBA program in the country, opening the first international campus of the Chicago GSB in Barcelona, Spain when he was deputy dean for GSB MBA programs, and the Management Lab (The New Product Laboratory).

Davis teaches in the areas of strategy, leadership, and creativity. He is the founder of Chicago GSB’s Laboratory in New Product and Strategy Development, in which student teams work with sponsoring firms to research, develop, and market new products. He also is the architect of the Leadership Effectiveness and Development (LEAD) program, a required student-directed course that focuses on the building of community and the development of managerial skills.

Davis has served on several boards of directors in both the public and non-profit sectors; currently he is a trustee and member of the executive committee of the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, which is a national organization devoted to large-scale social research in the public interest. His scholarly research has appeared in a number of top-tier academic journals, including the Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Marketing. Davis received an MBA in marketing from Dartmouth College and an AM in sociology and a PhD in marketing from Northwestern University.

Susan Eisenhower is President of the Eisenhower Group, Inc, which provides strategic counsel on political, business and public affairs projects. Eisenhower has consulted for major companies doing business overseas such as IBM, American Express, Diebold Corporation and Loral Space Systems and she is a Senior Director of Stonebridge International, a Washington-based international consulting firm chaired by former National Security Advisor, Samuel "Sandy" Berger.

Eisenhower is Chairman Emeritus of the Eisenhower Institute, where she served as also served as President. After more than twenty years in the foreign affairs field she is best known for her work in Russia and the former Soviet Union. Eisenhower has served on many government task forces. She has also served as an Academic Fellow of the International Peace and Security program of Carnegie Corporation of New York, and is a director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Nuclear Threat Initiative, co-chaired by Senator Sam Nunn and Ted Turner.

Eisenhower's first professional experience was as a writer. In the 1970s Eisenhower lived overseas for six years, first while a student at the American University in Paris and then as a London resident and stringer for The Saturday Evening Post. Later she wrote a column for Wolfe Newspapers and went on to write for business. Within the last ten years, Eisenhower has authored three books: two of which, Breaking Free and Mrs. Ike, have appeared on regional best seller lists. She has also edited four collected volumes on regional security issues – the most recent, Partners in Space (2004) – and penned hundreds of op-eds and articles on foreign policy for publications such as The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Naval Institute's Proceedings, The London Spectator, and Gannett Newspapers. She has provided analysis for CNN International, MSNBC, Nightline, World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, This Week with David Brinkley, CBS Sunday Morning, Good Morning America, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Fox News and Hardball, as well as NPR and other nation-wide television and radio programs.

Edward (Ted) Snyder is Dean and the George Pratt Shultz Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He began his appointment as dean in July, 2001. Snyder received his Ph.D. in economics in 1984 and his M.A. in public policy in 1978 from the University of Chicago. He was the John M. Olin Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Chicago's George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State from 1991-92.

Snyder began his professional career as an economist with the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. In his sixteen year tenure at the University of Michigan Business School, Snyder was a faculty member and served as Senior Associate Dean. He also served as the inaugural director of the Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan, which focuses on such emerging markets as India, China, and Central Europe. Before joining the GSB, Snyder was Dean and Charles C. Abbott Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia's Darden School.

Snyder's research develops insights into business practices, specifically distribution and contracting practices, antitrust enforcement, and public policy. He is an editor for The Journal of Law and Economics.

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Events

The University of Chicago, Argonne, and Fermilab participate in Chicago Science in the City 2007
The University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, in collaboration with a group of businesses, civic, cultural and community organizations, are participating in Chicago’s second annual Chicago Science in the City 2007 event. Chicago Science in the City is a compilation of two weeks of events designed to encourage Chicagoans to explore and experience the various fields of science. Since most of the events are free to the public, participants will have the opportunity experience science first hand.

Chicago Science in the City runs from October 2 - 13 in universities, laboratories, museums, office buildings, parks and public spaces throughout the Chicagoland area. More than 85 Chicago science events for children and adults are planned including three neighborhood science carnivals, museum exhibits, demonstrations, hands-on activities, lectures, films and workshops.

The event kicked off at the Daley Plaza on October 2nd. Highlights included the unveiling of the top ten scientific achievements in Chicago chosen by a panel of scientists and educators; hands-on science and technology activities; an interactive robotics competition; and presentations by specialists in the fields of science and technology.

The first controlled nuclear chain reaction, which took place beneath the west stands of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago and led to the establishment of Argonne National Laboratory, topped the list of Chicago’s top 10 scientific achievements announced by Mayor Richard Daley at the kick-off.

University of Chicago scientists accounted for six of the top 10 scientific achievements, while a seventh occurred at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The list was assembled by a panel of scientists and educators in connection with the second annual Chicago Science in the City celebration. (Full story).

The University of Chicago is an official sponsor of the event and, along with Argonne and Fermilab, are hosting a number of events during Science in the City’s two-week time period. Activities offered by the University, Argonne and Fermilab include hands-on activities at the Daley Plaza kick-off event and subsequent neighborhood Science Carnivals, science talks given by University faculty members to Chicago Public School teachers, and other events that are open to the public. The University’s Center for Elementary Math and Science Education and the Illinois Science Council, also have planned a series of science talks open to the public. Click here for more details.

For a complete listing of Chicago Science in the City 2007 events, please visit www.chicagoscienceinthecity.org.

For details about University, Argonne and Fermilab participation, please visit http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/07/070924.science.city.shtml.

University Graduate School of Business to sponsor Midwest Alternative Energy Venture Forum
The University of Chicago, the Michael P. Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship at Chicago GSB, Reed Smith LLP, and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity will sponsor the Midwest Alternative Energy Venture Forum (MAEVF) at the GSB’s Gleacher Center, 450 N. Cityfront Plaza Drive, Chicago, on Thursday November 29, 2007.

The conference will feature some of the Midwest’s most promising early-stage alternative energy companies presenting the latest breakthroughs in the rapidly changing field of alternative energy. MAEVF will provide a forum for venture capitalists to hear presentations from the start-up companies and learn about frontier energy technologies from a panel of Argonne scientists.

MAEVF is one of the first conferences of its kind to be held in the Midwest. “Venture investors on the coasts have been hosting energy conferences for years. The Midwest has a lot of technology, but we’re not showing it off.” said Robert Rosenberg, Associate Vice President for Partnerships and Technology, Office of the Vice President for Research and for National Laboratories, University of Chicago. “We hope to put the Midwest and Argonne on the map as leaders in developing everything from new technology for solar cells to new batteries to nuclear power.”

For more information about the MAEVF, go to http://www.chicagogsb.edu/maevf/.

University October Event Highlights:

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Research in the News

For some diabetics, burden of care rivals complications of disease
Many patients with diabetes say that the inconvenience and discomfort of constant therapeutic vigilance, particularly multiple daily insulin injections, has as much impact on their quality of life as the burden of intermediate complications, researchers from the University of Chicago report in the October 2007 issue of Diabetes Care. Full story.

Free lecture series to spotlight ultracold atoms
Free lectures at the University of Chicago will describe how understanding and controlling atoms and gas chilled to nearly absolute zero may ultimately unlock the intricacies of complex materials, tailor new forms of matter, and make possible the manipulation of information on far vaster scales than today. Full story.

NIH awards $23 million to University of Chicago Medical Center for translational research program
Part of National Consortium to Transform Clinical Research
The National Institutes of Health has awarded one of 12 Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) for 2007 to a team based at the University of Chicago Medical Center. These awards, together with 12 CTSAs awarded in 2006, form the core of an NIH effort to build a national consortium of select centers that will “transform how clinical and translational research is conducted,” ultimately enabling researchers to provide new and better treatments more efficiently and quickly to patients. Full story.

Four University of Chicago scientists receive $8 million in innovation awards from National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health is awarding separate research awards to four young University of Chicago scientists totaling $8 million to conduct promising but unconventional research that could lead to new medical treatments and a better understanding of the factors that contribute to problem adolescent behavior. The NIH grants are part of a $100 million investment in the future of science to 39 innovative researchers nationwide.

Margaret Gardel, 30, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Physics, and Rustem Ismagilov, 34, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Chemistry, will each receive $2.5 million in direct funding (not including overhead costs) to conduct biological research over the next five years as NIH Director’s Pioneer Award recipients. Gardel and Ismagilov are among 12 recipients of the 2007 Director’s Pioneer Awards, which are designed to support individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose pioneering approaches to major challenges in biomedical or behavioral research.

Receiving NIH New Innovator Awards, meanwhile, will be Kristen Jacobson, 39, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, and Dorothy Sipkins, 38, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Medicine. Jacobson and Sipkins are among the first group of NIH Director’s New Innovator Award recipients. The 27 New Innovator Awards will each provide $1.5 million in direct funding to stimulate highly innovative research by promising new investigators. Full story.

For more breaking news from the University’s News Office, click here.

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