Spotlight
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.
As CHESS staff work from home during the coronavirus shutdown, we're catching up with how that's going for them.
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.
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 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.
This month marks the official start of user operation at CHESS and all three partner programs:
As a CHESS operator, Kurt McDonald has a full time job.
The hills of Ithaca are a haven for road bike enthusiasts.
CHESS's Staff Scientist, Ken Finkelstein, has been a volunteer with Friendship Donations Network for many years, ensuring that food does not go to waste.
It was only April 8 when the CESR team had successfully stored positrons at 50mA.
On June 4- 5, 2019, students from several PREM groups and the INCREASE consortium participated in the CHESS User’s Meeting and the associated “Synchrotron Essentials” workshop.