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The Open House was a chance for science enthusiasts of all ages to come and see what we do behind the scenes at CHESS and CLASSE! This event was first and foremost about community, from our staff and students, to the local Ithaca and Cornell communities – we hope to inspire dozens of young new scientists! ⁠

The HEXT workshop equips students to actively participate in the CHESS user community through a blend of educational lectures, interactive demonstrations, and proposal writing training. Focused on diversity and practical skills, HEXT aims to cultivate a more inclusive and vibrant environment for synchrotron research.

Working alongside users, a new operating mode for CESR has been developed, allowing researchers to image processes on time scales ranging from nanoseconds to microseconds. With exquisite temporal resolution, this capability empowers researchers to investigate phenomena such as chemical reactions, shock waves, phase transitions, and biological processes.

The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) nearly $20 million to build a new precision X-ray beamline for research on biological and environmental systems.

The Wilson West construction project is about to enter the next phase as we head into construction and installation of interior X-ray facilities.

In a groundbreaking initiative aimed at democratizing data-driven scientific discovery, the National Science Data Fabric (NSDF) and the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) have collaborated in establishing a trans-disciplinary approach for integrated data delivery and access to research data visualization, shared storage, networking, and computing resources.

On Wednesday, November 15, CHESS had an open house for members of the Cornell community in the new Wilson West expansion project. The project recently received its temporary certificate of occupancy, which marks a milestone in the construction project.

New research provides a 3D investigation using multiple synchrotron x-ray techniques to enable targeted zoom-ins onto six individual grains and spatial linking across length scales, characterizing the intragranular micromechanical fields along all triple junctions within select grains.