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Jasmine leans over an empty Fuji water bottle, cutting two half-dollar sized circles a few centimeters apart from one another. After placing convex lenses in each hole, she gingerly glues each lens into the circles using copious amounts of hot glue.

CHESS Director Joel Brock was pleased to announce this year’s winner of the CHESS Student Paper Prize as Gaurav “Gino” Giri [1]. 

This workshop, held Wednesday-Friday June 10-12, 2015 in association with the CHESS User Meeting, was designed to give a thorough, practical introduction on x-ray emission spectroscopy to researchers with little background in XES.

The second workshop at the 2015 CHESS Users’ Meeting was organized by MacCHESS scientist Tiit Lukk on the topic of “Fast framing detectors and their applications in time-resolved crystallography/BioSAXS."  

Undergraduate physics and chemistry students from throughout the country have come to CHESS to conduct cutting-edge research this summer.

Earlier this summer, undergraduates from across the country gathered to hear from fellow physics students engaged in a summer of research at Cornell.

Through diligent chemistry work on purifying small gold nanoparticles and then reintroducing a variety of additives, Yixuan Yu and his fellow students from the Korgel group at the University of Texas at Austin have found the key ingredient to the mysterious phenomenon of cooperative Ostwald ripening. 

For the last decade, the Tristram-Nagle/Nagle lab (Carnegie Mellon University) has been working on the interaction of HIV-1 peptides with specific membranes in the HIV virion, T-cell plasma and nuclear membranes (see references below).