CHESS eNewsletter - June 2024 Issue No. 118

Recap: 2024 CHESS User Meeting

Our 2024 CHESS User Meeting and accompanying XCITE workshop was a massive success, thanks to all who organized, presented and attended!

A special congratulations to the winners of the student poster session awards: Thomas Ugras for Best Scientific Poster and Ben Gregory for Best Technical Poster, excellent work!

Click below for a photo gallery of the event and a recap article

Pushed to extremes: distinct effects of high temperature versus pressure on the structure of STEP

In a new paper appearing in Communications Biology, prof. Daniel Keedy's group from the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center used x-ray crystallography at CHESS to investigate the conformation changes of a medically-important biomolecule (the protein tyrosine phosphatase enzyme STEP) when perturbed by pressure and temperature.

Redox Mechanisms and Migration Tendencies in Earth-Abundant Cathodes

In a new paper appearing in the journal “Chemistry of Materials”, a group of researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, and CHEXS use high-energy x-ray spectroscopy to gain fundamental insights into the redox processes and migration tendencies of transition metals in the cathode material 0.7(Li2MnO3)·0.3(LiFeO2).

Welcome to the 2024 Summer Students of CHESS

The Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education (CLASSE) funds summer research opportunities in the areas of x-ray and accelerator sciences, materials science, chemistry, and mechanical engineering for pre-selected undergraduate students from primarily undergraduate institutions and minority serving institutions. This summer, twenty REU students are hosted by CLASSE. Ten students from the CHESS summer programs -- SERCCS, PREM, and SUNRiSE -- are jumping into their rigorous summer undergraduate research experience.

User Office Update

The Proposal Deadline for the fall run cycle is now open until July 17.

CHESS is always looking for talented individuals to join our team! Please check out the latest job offerings available at the lab.

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