Now Accepting Applications for SERCCS Program

The Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) at Cornell University offers a special internship program for students at New York State community colleges to prepare for technical careers or continue into bachelors programs and achieve their educational goals. CHESS offers an eight week program specifically for community college students to apply their talents and contribute to the completion of our new facilities’ upgrade.

Workshop on electric circuits spreads a current of enthusiasm from NYS to Puerto Rico

Led by Master Teacher Charles Canestaro, of the Cortland Enlarged City School District, the group started the day with the ever popular Foutan Boards kit. The boards, one of the most charismatic items offered by CHESS’s Physics Teachers Lending Library, gave the teachers an opportunity to learn about the structure and behavior of current and voltage in circuits.

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Former CHESS user forms start-up company for 3D printing of ceramics

Anatoly came to CHESS as a postdoc in Christine Papadakis’ group at the Technical University of Munich. In two experimental runs at D-line he explored solvothermal annealing of block copolymers, at this point the most complex annealing method. Solvothermal annealing is an extension of solvent vapor annealing [1] at room temperature which has been studied extensively by the collaborating groups of Christine Papadakis and Dorthe Posselt (Roskilde University, Denmark) over many years at CHESS.

Industrial Impact at CHESS. Q&A with Justin Mach, an Engineer at Caterpillar Inc.

Nearly four years ago, Justin Mach, an engineering specialist at Caterpillar, was invited by Armand Beaudoin, associate director of Insitμ, to work with CHESS on materials research that could be of benefit to the company. Mach conducted Caterpillar’s first experiment with CHESS in December 2014 to help validate a model of how residual stress occurs during welding. Caterpillar has continued this collaboration with both CHESS and the Advanced Photon Source (APS) to aid in further research and development in welding and in other processing stages of materials.

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