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As students return to school, we'd like to remind teachers looking for fun and engaging STEM activities that kits are available through our Lending Library. The CHEXS Lending Library program serves as a repository for valuable science resources for middle school (grades 5-8) and high school (grades 9-12) teachers.

CHEXS scientists and collaborators have developed, prototyped, built, and tested a compact variable-gap undulator with hydraulic-assist driver and innovative hybrid magnetic structure. The sCCU is a more versatile and efficient x-ray source for the next generation of CHEXS beamlines. 

Cornell’s Center for Alkaline-Based Energy Solutions (CABES) has received renewal funding of $12.6 million for a four-year period to continue its work developing advanced fuel cell technologies in alkaline media.

Follow this page to see the latest images of the New Experimental Hall construction.

A sizable group of MacCHESS personnel attended the annual meeting of the ACA (ACA: The Structural Science Society, formerly the American Crystallographic Association), held July 29-August 3 in Portland, Oregon. Home base was a booth in the Exhibit Hall, assembled, beautified, and manned by Irina Kriksunov. At the booth, visitors could read about activities at Sector 7, ask questions about whether they could make use of CHESS, and leave with informational postcards (as well as chocolates).

During a series of three single-week runs starting in 2020-1 and culminating in 2022-1, a team of researchers from NIST, collaborating with several industrial partners, employed the FMB beamline at MSN-C to develop and then demonstrate an AI-accelerated robot to rapidly map the composition of liquid formulations, from coatings to personal care products.

Jeney Wierman started as the new MacCHESS Director on July 1st, 2022.  Below is a welcome message to the whole CHESS Community.  Jeney takes over the MacCHESS directorship from Marian Szebenyi, who will be retiring later this year after 30 years at MacCHESS.

The Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education (CLASSE) funds summer research opportunities in the areas of x-ray and accelerator sciences, materials science, chemistry, and mechanical engineering for pre-selected undergraduate students from primarily undergraduate institutions and minority serving institutions. Approximately a dozen REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) students each summer are hosted by CLASSE. Students from the CHESS summer programs -- SERCCS, PREM, and SUNRiSE -- are midway through their summer undergraduate research experience.