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X-ray detectors are an essential part of every x-ray experiment. The most common sensor material for cutting-edge x-ray detection is presently silicon.

The prestigious CAREER Program, which was launched in 1996, provides support to junior faculty members and encourages the combining of research and education.  Applicants submit a proposal that includes research and education plans.  Awardees receive various amounts of funding, typically ranging from around $400,00 to $500,000, for a period of five years.  

An immunologist, a molecular biologist and a plant scientist have each received awards from the Schwartz Research Fund for Women in Life Sciences, endowed by Joan Poyner Schwartz ’65 and Ronald H. Schwartz ’65.

In the summer of 2015, two female undergraduate students decided to bike across country from San Francisco to New York City.

The F2 station at CHESS currently supports several high-energy (40+ keV) X-ray diffraction techniques for probing the crystalline microstructure of structural engineering materials and the loads (stresses) applied to these crystals comprising the microstructure during in-situ thermomechanical testing. 

The CHESS-U project has two major branches: 1) CESR will be upgraded to circulate only a single beam while also creating space for six new undulator X-ray sources, and 2) that forces CHESS to decommission six old experimental stations and build six new modern, more capable stations.

Xspress 3, X-ray fluorescence (XRF) readout electronics made by Quantum Detectors, is one of the latest powerful instruments for high flux XRF detection used at synchrotron beamlines.

There is great need to study the life history of commercial fishes in the Amazon and other large South American basins, as there are dozens of exploited taxa with widely varying life histories that are poorly understood.