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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).

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

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.

In March of this year, CHESS commissioned the Maia detector, a 384-pixel, energy-dispersive pixel array detector for x-ray fluorescence-based applications, especially XRF imaging.

The IPEI grants connect Ithaca City School District teachers with community partners in support of new ways to engage students while keeping the community involved.

The Macromolecular Diffraction Facility at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (MacCHESS) held its fifth annual BioSAXS Essentials workshop on October 30 to November 1, 2014.

This fall semester, Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) furthered its educational goals through student-to-student outreach.