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CHESS Upcoming Workshops!
Workshops at CHESS are an ideal way to learn more about the techniques of CHESS. Each workshop is geared to strengthen users' knowledge about CHESS, while engaging each participant's needs in order to further the capabilities of CHESS.

User Office Update - April 2025
On behalf of the CHESS User Office, we extend our heartfelt congratulations to our users and staff for a remarkably successful 2025_1 run cycle. Your dedication and research continue to inspire us!

The Accelerator: Robert Wilson's Impact at Cornell & Beyond
On April 8, members of the CLASSE and CHESS communities gathered at Cornell Cinema for a private screening of The Accelerator, a new documentary chronicling the life and legacy of physicist Robert R. Wilson.

Behind the Beams: Downtime? Not Exactly.
While the particle accelerator buried beneath Cornell’s soccer field typically hums along 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, the spring down period offers a rare and essential pause in operations. For two weeks, the synchrotron powers down—giving CHESS technical staff, scientists, and engineers a valuable window to dive into hands-on work that’s impossible when the machine is running.

Researchers control metal microstructure for better 3D printing
Just as a snowflake’s intricate structure vanishes when it melts and transforms when it refreezes, the microstructure of metals can change during the 3D printing process, resulting in strengths or weaknesses in the printed product.

X-ray study sheds light on cost-effective fuel cell materials
Cornell researchers have captured an unprecedented, real-time view of how a promising catalyst material transforms during operation, providing new insights that could lead to replacement of expensive precious metals in clean-energy technologies.

Light-twisting materials created from nano semiconductors
A new technique transforms symmetrical semiconductor particles, producing films with extraordinary light-bending properties.

Spent brewers’ grain could be big business as chicken feed
With the global poultry feed market projected to reach $238.9 billion by the end of 2025, the broiler feed industry could benefit from a nutritionally advantageous ingredient that also happens to be more affordable because it comes from a waste stream.