Summer Engineering Research for Community College Students (SERCCS) selects 4-5 students from (2-year) community colleges for eight-week internships in accelerator and x-ray sciences research, during which students also attend/lead formal seminars, tour research facilities, and enjoy social and

Dear CHESS Community,

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York), who secured an extension of CHESS’s funding from the National Science Foundation 10 years ago amid concerns that it wouldn’t be renewed, was on hand to celebrate. He also announced that $8.5 million from the 2022 omnibus appropriations bill will go towards operating the Materials Solutions Network at CHESS (MSN-C).

The dedicated High Magnetic Field (HMF) X-ray Beamline at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) will be a world-class high-energy X-ray beam- line. It will feature a custom low-temperature superconducting (LTS) magnet generating continuous fields as high as 20 Tesla. The beamline will be designed to accommodate even higher fields from future magnets, which will become feasible as high temperature superconducting (HTS) magnet technology matures.

Cancer cells often overexpress glutaminase enzymes, in particular glutaminase C (GAC), which resides in the mitochondria and catalyzes the hydrolysis of glutamine to glutamate.  High levels of GAC have been observed in aggressive cancers and the inhibition of its enzymatic activity has been shown to reduce their growth and survival, both in vitro and in mouse models.  Numerous GAC inhibitors have been reported, with the most heavily investigated being a class of compounds derived from the small molecule BPTES (bis-2-(5-phenylacetamido-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl)ethyl sulfide).

What is the new work?

In food products, the natural blues tend to be moody.

A fun food colorant with a scientific name – phycocyanin – provides a vivid blue pigment that food companies crave, but it can be unstable when placed in soft drinks and sport beverages, and then lose its hues under fluorescent light on grocery shelves.

What is the new work?

Richard Gillilan, a MacCHESS/CHEXS staff scientist, has been named a member of the 2021 class of Fellows of the American Crystallographic Association (ACA), in recognition of his many career achievements, especially the development of a world-class BioSAXS facility at CHESS.