To understand these biological processes, researchers have been using the high-energy X-rays at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS). These intense beams of light are critical to solving the structure of these proteins, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will help ensure that this research continues.
On June 4th, 2019, exactly one year to the day after the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) shut down for the CHESS-U upgrade project, the CHESS Users’ Meeting attracted a record number of 225 registered participants to the Cornell campus to look back at major milestones of the project and to discuss X-ray science enabled by the ambitious upgrade.
The theme of the conference was “Advances X-Ray Sources and Novel Imaging, Characterization and Analysis Techniques”, with emphasis on (1) recent work and advances in accelerator based X-ray sources to create X-ray beams with novel properties; (2) the development of novel X-ray imaging, characterization and analysis techniques; and (3) novel applications of X-rays to frontier scientific challenges.
The Summer Engineering and Research for Community College Students (SERCCS) program, PREM (Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials), Summer Undergraduate Research in Science and Engineering (SUnRiSE), and the NSF-funded REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) are programs that run concurrently through the summer.