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an image showing the first sycnhrotron light, an early machine at cornell and a blueprint

CHESS Celebrates 75 years of Synchrotron Light

Portrait of Chris Pollock and PIPOXS detectors

Beamlines in Focus: PIPOXS

Chris Pollock is the Staff Scientist at the PIPOXS beamline at the Center for High-Energy X-ray Sciences at CHESS (CHEXS), an NSF-funded f

portrait of Aaron Finke with beamline components

Beamlines in Focus: FlexX

The FlexX beamline, part of both CHEXS and MacCHESS

a portrait of Louisa Smieska at the Functional Materials Beamline

Beamlines in Focus: FMB

FMB (the Functional Materials Beamline) is a part of the Materials Solutions Network at CHESS (MSN-C).

FAST Staff Scientist Kate Shanks

Beamlines in Focus - FAST

Kate Shanks started working with CHESS in 2009 as a user; today she runs the FAST (Forming and Shaping Technology,) beamline as a Sta

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Poster Slam & Poster Session

The Poster Session at the 2020 CHESS Users' Meeting took place on June 9. Visit this page for information on the poster slam and the virtual poster session.
The Hills

Life at Home - Louise Debefve

As CHESS staff work from home during the coronavirus shutdown, we're catching up with how that's going for them. Louise Debefve is a Postdoctoral Associate at CHESS.

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Life at Home - Aimee Kellicutt

As CHESS staff work from home during the coronavirus shutdown, we're catching up with how that's going for them.

This slice through the three-dimensional diffuse map shows intense peaks resulting from lattice vibration, as well as cloudy features caused by internal protein motions.

Researchers Use CHESS to Map Protein Motion

Cornell structural biologists took a new approach to using a classic method of X-ray analysis to capture something the conventional method had never accounted for: the collective motion of proteins. And they did so by creating software to painstakingly stitch together the scraps of data that are usually disregarded in the process.
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Beyond the Lab with Bill Miller

Bill Miller says that it took him two years before he was able to overcome the hardest part about working at CHESS; knowing where everything is.

Elisabeth at Habitat for Humanity and CHESS

Beyond the Lab with Elisabeth Bodnaruk

Elisabeth says she feels like she belongs at CHESS, doing whatever it takes to make things work - from building experimental hutches to working with sensitive vacuum equipment. 

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Welcome Back Users!

This month marks the official start of user operation at CHESS and all three partner programs: 

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Beyond the Lab with Kurt McDonald, CHESS Operator

As a CHESS operator, Kurt McDonald has a full time job.

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