Provost, Vice Presidents, & Secretary of the University
Donald H. Levy
Vice President for Research and for National Laboratories
5801 S Ellis Ave., 502
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: 773.702.1383
Fax: 773.702.9595
d-levy@uchicago.edu
Donald H. Levy, Albert A. Michelson Distinguished Service Professor in Chemistry, is the University of Chicago's Vice President for Research and for National Laboratories, CEO of UChicago Argonne, LLC and a Member of the Board of Directors for Fermilab.
Named to the University position in 2007, he oversees a combined research enterprise of more than $850 million. His responsibilities include oversight of the Office of Technology and Intellectual Policy (UChicagoTech) and the Office for Partnerships and Technology.
In addition to his responsibilities for research across the University and Argonne campuses, Levy chairs the Science Policy Council, a collaboration with Argonne, Northwestern University and the University of Illinois, established in 2005 to enhance Argonne's scientific capabilities, to strengthen the state's technological base and workforce preparation, and to improve Illinois' ability to compete for federal research funding.
Levy joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1967. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a former Chairman of the Chemistry Department and he played an important leadership role in planning the new Gordon Center for Integrative Science. A physical chemist, Levy was a leader in developing and using supersonic jet cooling to study the structure of molecules.
Levy is editor of the Journal of Chemical Physics. His awards include the E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy and the Ellis Lippincott Award from the Optical Society of America. He received his B.A. from Harvard University, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.