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Many ancient inscriptions on stones have been worn and weathered, and the original text is no longer visible. Scanning X-ray fluorescence (SXRF) imaging of chemical tracing elements on epigraphy has been used to significantly improve the legibility of heavily weathered and worn stone surfaces.

Xraise has been playing an active role in coordinating learning activities addressing the engineering design standards featured in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). 

A collaboration between Cornell and the Kitchen Theatre Company (KTC) has found a new way to make physics irresistible, with “Physics Fair,” an original musical theater production.

The recent realization of X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFELs) has excited the imagination over what new measurements can be done with the unprecedented peak brightness and short time duration of the pulses.

With the availability of the Sample Environment Lab, CHESS staff scientist Detlef Smilgies, also an adjunct associate professor at the Cornell School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, took three aspiring chemical engineers under his wings.

About the Year of Light: On 20 December 2013, the UN General Assembly 68th Session proclaimed 2015 as the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies (IYL 2015).

A recent collaboration with geologist Alaura Singleton, from Dr. Gordon Osinski’s research group at Western University in London Ontario (Canada), and CHESS scientists Matthew Ward, Arthur Woll, and Margaret Koker, has utilized the new CHESS Maia detector to perform full spectrum iron K-edge x-ray absorption mapping experiments on impact melt bearing breccias.

The new ONR-sponsored InSitμ (Integrated Simulation and x-ray Interrogation Tools and training for micromechanics) center at CHESS was officially launched this fall.