CHESS announces new Users' Executive Committee members

Kathy Dedrick, CHESS, Cornell University

John Smedley, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Kyle Lancaster, Cornell University were voted into the two open positions on the CHESS Users' Executive Committee during the June CHESS Users’ Meeting.

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Left to Right: Joel Brock, Katsu Murakami, Patrick Clancy, John Nagle, Tobias Hanrath and Kyle Lancaster. Unavailable: Hongyou Fan, Meredith Silberstein, and John Smedley.

Kyle Lancaster is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University and has agreed to serve as Vice-Chair of the CHESS Users' Executive Committee. Professor Lancaster’s group employs synthesis, biochemistry, and a broad range of methods to explore small molecule reactivity as mediated by transition metals.

John Smedley is a Physicist with the Instrumentation Division at Brookhaven National Lab and is internationally recognized leader in the development of high efficiency photocathodes the miniature electron emitters at the heart of accelerator experiments that probe the fundamental laws of nature and the properties of materials for applications in energy technologies and other areas.

Meredith Silberstein, will be moving into the position of Chair of the CHESS Users' Committee as Katsu Murakami completes his term as Chair of the Committee and John Nagle will be completing his term on the Committee as well. This has been an exciting year for our Users' Committee their roles have grown and their input has been invaluable to our continued support of the CHESS community. We are very appreciative to the committee for their time and commitment.

The next meeting of the CHESS UEC will take place January 2016 but users may contact the committee at: user_committee_chair@cornell.edu

 

Meredith SilbersteinMeredith Silberstein (Chair, 2017)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Cornell University

E-mail: user_committee_chair@cornell.edu

 

Kyle LancasterKyle Lancaster (Vice-Chair 2018)
Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Cornell University

 

J. Patrick ClancyJ. Patrick Clancy (2016)
Dept. of Physics
University of Toronto

 

Hongyu FanHongyou Fan (2016)
Dept. of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering
The University of New Mexico

 

Katsu MurakamiKatsu Murakami (Past-Chair, 2016)
Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Pennsylvania State University

 

John SmedleyJohn Smedley (2017)
Instrumentation Division
Brookhaven National Lab 

 

Marian SzebenyiMarian Szebenyi (Ex Officio, non-voting)
Director, MacCHESS
Cornell University

 


Matthew MillerMatthew Miller (Ex Officio, non-voting)
Director, In-Sitµ
Cornell University