Issue No. 56 • 2018.08.15
From the Associate Director

With staff working split and/or double shifts, you know the level of excitement of the construction phase of CHESS-U is hitting the roof! That, and the excitement of dozens of student summer visitors and summer science projects is again proving that summer is not any sort of relaxing vacation at Wilson Lab. The article about Fort Lewis College undergraduate Christopher Flynn working with MacCHESS scientist Richard Gillilan shows how intense and productive an eight-week summer visit can be. Four more science articles and a program for science educators round out this month's newsletter. Enjoy!

-Ernest Fontes
CHESS: X-rays of the Future
SciTech Now, a WCNY production, talks to Joel Brock, Director of CHESS and users about exciting research currently...
New study at CHESS A2 station reveals the real-time dynamical response of asymmetric tilt during epitaxial thin film growth
Scientists have observed the real-time strain relaxation response of asymmetric tilt boundaries at the Bi/GaAs (110) interface...
Do butterflies make you relax?
Recent advances by scientists representing 4 national labs, 3 countries and 4 universities are helping to answer...
New York State educators return to campus for science snapshot
The 2018 Summer Science Snapshot for Educators Program, co-hosted by Center for Bright Beams (CBB) and CHESS was held...
CHESS-U update, August 2018
The demolition phase of the CHESS-U upgrade project is complete, and the construction phase has commenced...
Microfluidic mixing chips can reveal how biomolecules interact
Christopher Flynn, a fourth year student majoring in Physics and Mathematics at Fort Lewis College, and a SUnRiSE student at Cornell...
Validating field studies of metalloids in shrimp
While it is well established that arsenic accumulates in some seafood, the toxicity is dependent upon the specific arsenic species...
An all-diamond X-ray position and flux monitor using nitrogen-incorporated ultra-nanocrystalline diamond contacts
We present a radiation detector with single crystal synthetic diamond sensor which has CVD grown ultra-nanocrystalline electrical contacts...
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