JTFI | Office of Science, Innovation, National Laboratories, and Global Initiatives

New technology more efficiently removes heavy metals from water

By Emily Ayshford Video available here: https://youtu.be/A_xwYIroTvM As freshwater scarcity affects millions worldwide, scientists and engineers have looked for new ways of filtering unwanted metals and minerals out of water while retaining those elements for re-use...

How China’s Air Pollution Affects the Health of Residents in South Korea

Computing and Data Science, JTFI, National Laboratories, News

By Emily Ayshford When countries produce air pollution, it doesn’t just stay within its borders. But just how that pollution travels, and how it affects the economies and well-being of residents in neighboring countries, has been difficult to show. A...

JTFI investment leads to more AI + Science funding

Computing and Data Science, JTFI, National Laboratories, News

Artificial intelligence has the power to fuel countless innovations, giving scientists and engineers new tools to solve the world’s biggest problems. At the University of Chicago, the Joint Task Force Initiative (JTFI) has supported these innovations by helping the...

Series empowers emerging scientific leaders across university, national labs

JTFI

To encourage and develop talented scientific leaders of the future, the Leadership Academy for Women in Science and Engineering (LAWISE) task force brought together a cohort of approximately 55 high-potential women from across Argonne National Laboratory, Fermi...

Strategic Laboratory Leadership Program participants offer vision for the future of national labs

JTFI, News

Training, mentorship, talent databases, streamlined operations, and a unified brand were ideas presented from latest cohorts The 17 national labs across the U.S. Department of Energy complex have solved some of the most important problems in science over the...

To map the human brain, researchers first look to the octopus

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Imagine having a wiring diagram of the brain — of its 100 billion neurons and their quadrillions of connections. What would that reveal to us about human cognition, disease, and even life itself? That sort of huge undertaking is now conceivable, thanks to advances in...