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    Artwork Comes Alive at CHESS

    Analyzing pigments in medieval illuminated manuscript pages at CHESS is opening up some new açreas of research bridging the arts and sciences.

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    Students Thrive at CHESS

    With one of the strongest graduate student programs in the country, CHESS is at the center of education. 

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    Imaging the life inside of plants

    Advances at CHESS make it possible to image micronutrients in plant tissues are giving Cornell scientists additional tools to develop crops that thrive in marginal soils.

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    Researchers travel across the nation, and the world,
    to use the high energy x-rays of CHESS. Thier science
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Philanthropic support accelerates infrastructure for the future of structural biology
Members of the project team that gathered at Astera Institute on June 24, 2025. Nozomi Ando is front row, second from the right; Stephen Meisburger is back row, third from the left.

A new $5 million initiative, funded by the Astera Institute, aims to make diffuse scattering – a signal in X-ray crystallography that reveals protein dynamics – accessible to the public and the broader scientific community. 

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Optical Stochastic Cooling at CESR

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Nozomi Ando named to Schmidt Polymaths cohort
Nozomi Ando
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September 17, 2025
User Office Update: Fall 2025 Cycle (Sep-Nov) – What You Need to Know
Researchers working at the NSF-funded CHESS PIPOXS beamline.
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September 11, 2025
Capturing the Full Picture - Why Rigor and Reproducibility Matter in Materials Science
scientists at the FAST beamline of CHESS, and NSF-funded facility
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August 28, 2025

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