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Onondaga Nation students visit Xraise
On the morning of Nov 20th, a group of 17 middle school students and 2 teachers from the Onondaga Nation participated in a series of activities facilitated by the Xraise staff from the Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based ScienceS and Education.
Making undulators possible at CHESS
For most of CHESS’s history, it was not possible to use undulator insertion devices. The reason for this was that in order to counter-rotate electrons and positrons in the same storage ring there had to be a “pretzel” orbit that caused the two particle beams to avoid parasitic crossings (Fig. 1), but also not go through the centers of potential undulator sources.
Billions of 'nanoreactors' inform materials design
Imagine building a chemical reactor small enough to study nanoparticles a billionth of a meter across.
Fine details of transcribing DNA to RNA
RNA polymerase (RNAP) assembles an RNA strand corresponding to the DNA sequence of a gene, in a precisely choreographed series of molecular motions.
Professor Eddy Arnold elected as 2014 American Crystallographic Association Fellow
Eddy Arnold, Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University, and Resident Faculty Member at the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine (CABM), was recently elected as a Fellow of the American Crystallographic Association (ACA).
DAVES: the new x-ray emission spectrometer
CHESS scientist Ken Finkelstein and engineers Aaron Lyndaker and Tom Krawczyk have just completed a unique, high resolution spectrometer for x-ray fluorescence studies.
Shiny new buttons at "A"
The CHESS A-Line controls and safety systems have been upgraded to a modern PLC based system.
G-line: Same optics, new source, more flux!
As of October 2014, the three CHESS experimental stations known as G-line joined A1 and A2 in becoming among the first undulator-fed beam lines at CHESS.