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The first three D-line chemical engineering masters take up jobs in industry
With the availability of the Sample Environment Lab, CHESS staff scientist Detlef Smilgies, also an adjunct associate professor at the Cornell School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, took three aspiring chemical engineers under his wings.
2015 is the International Year of Light and Light-Based Technologies
About the Year of Light: On 20 December 2013, the UN General Assembly 68th Session proclaimed 2015 as the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies (IYL 2015).
New instrument succeeds at XANES mapping of meteor impact melt bearing breccias
A recent collaboration with geologist Alaura Singleton, from Dr. Gordon Osinski’s research group at Western University in London Ontario (Canada), and CHESS scientists Matthew Ward, Arthur Woll, and Margaret Koker, has utilized the new CHESS Maia detector to perform full spectrum iron K-edge x-ray absorption mapping experiments on impact melt bearing breccias.
InSitμ news
The new ONR-sponsored InSitμ (Integrated Simulation and x-ray Interrogation Tools and training for micromechanics) center at CHESS was officially launched this fall.
Workshop on XRF with the CHESS Maia detector draws full house
In March of this year, CHESS commissioned the Maia detector, a 384-pixel, energy-dispersive pixel array detector for x-ray fluorescence-based applications, especially XRF imaging.
IPEI grant connects Xraise with local elementary school
The IPEI grants connect Ithaca City School District teachers with community partners in support of new ways to engage students while keeping the community involved.
Users show off innovative work at BioSAXS Essentials V workshop
The Macromolecular Diffraction Facility at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (MacCHESS) held its fifth annual BioSAXS Essentials workshop on October 30 to November 1, 2014.
Graduate students at CHESS mentor undergraduate engineers
This fall semester, Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) furthered its educational goals through student-to-student outreach.