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The next run starts January 26th, and all CHESS beamlines will be operating. Whether experiments will be done in-person or will have to be remote is yet to be seen.

Alex Adams and Ryan Ford, two SUNY Delhi mechatronics majors, are wrapping up six-month long internships at CHESS. The two seniors have contributed to and led a number of projects, creating a lasting impact on the experiments at the lab.

Scientists and engineers from 25 facilities across the global light source community have contributed to #LightSourceSelfies, a video campaign to inspire and inform all those with a curiosity for careers connected to synchrotrons and Free Electron Lasers (FELs).

EGCG, a polyphenol compound found in green tea, has a proven anti-cancer effect. Studies now suggest that EGCG works by binding to the potent anti-tumor protein p53 and stabilizing it, so that its activity against cancer is increased. Several experiments, including BioSAXS at CHESS ID7A, support this conclusion.

Powerful X-rays, energy tech, wireless electric-vehicle charging, big data, swarming robots, and cryo-electron microscopy are among some of the research themes that helped six faculty members earn Cornell Engineering Research Excellence Awards – the highest research honor given by the Ivy League’s top-ranked engineering college.

A natural food colorant called phycocyanin provides a fun, vivid blue in soft drinks, but it is unstable on grocery shelves. Cornell’s synchrotron is helping to steady it.

Greg Ray has been named the new Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotoron Source. In his role, Greg will work closely with the CHESS Director and Senior Leadership Team to provide strategic guidance, and interface with multiple partner organizations – creating and maintaining long-term relationships with external organizations and funding partners.

AFRL and Boeing collaborate with CHESS to enable real-time measurements of high performance thermoplastics in 3D printing composites processing.