During those workshops, astute scientists like Phil Anfinrud (NIH) prompted CHESS management to explore how our upgraded source might serve scientists needing large x-ray pulses. His questions followed an external review of the accelerator upgrade which also pointed out that the CHESS source – CESR – was flexible enough to support particle beam bunch patterns having high bunch charge (up to 50 nanoCoulombs per bunch) and flexible timing (from 14 to 644 nanoseconds).

CHESS is currently in the midst of designing and planning for CHESS-U, and since NSLS-II was recently built and commissioned (and the work is still ongoing), the folks at NSLS-II had fantastic advice and expertise to offer us.

In addition to having a prominent spot on APS TV—broadcast in multiple places throughout the conference—scientific talks included cutting-edge research by Detlef Smilgies, Darren Pagan, Jooseop Lee, Jacob Ruff, and Ken Finkelstein. This year’s March meeting also included something new and unexpected from CHESS—a large showcase of do-it-yourself Synchrotron Science themed exhibits aboard an aluminum foil covered Physics Bus!

The work breakdown structure (WBS) has been created and System Managers have been assigned. Two large contracts have been awarded and designs are being vetted. We are almost ready to cut metal.

However, one of main properties of x-rays that makes them powerful -- their high penetrating power – also limits the scope of application of this imaging technique. In particular, imaging thick or heterogeneous samples at the micron scale generally requires that the sample be thinned, which is often impractical or impossible.

Brito is the Mong Family Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow in biomedical engineering. Lambert is the Gordon Lankton Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow in applied and engineering physics. Lancaster teaches in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. Yapici is the Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in neurobiology and behavior.

“The Sloan research fellows are the rising stars of the academic community,” said Paul L. Joskow, president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, in a statement. A total of 126 U.S. and Canadian researcher were awarded Sloan fellowships this year.

CHESS capillaries are designed to have rotationally symmetric ellipsoidal shapes to intercept a large beam area, and thus are suitable focusing optics for current CHESS beamlines which delivers an x-ray beam into 10~50um spot sizes with large x-ray flux.

The program’s name SRCCS, stands for Summer Research for Community College Students. Thanks to several volunteer mentors, we have exciting projects especially designed for SRCCS participants posted on our website: https://www.classe.cornell.edu/StudentOpportunities/SrccsProgram.html.

The annual awards support women life scientists conducting innovative, risk-taking research.

Margaret Bynoe, associate professor of immunology in the College of Veterinary Medicine; Carolyn Sevier, assistant professor of molecular medicine, also in the veterinary college; and Olena Vatamaniuk, associate professor of crop and soil sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, each received awards of $15,000.