APS News
August 11, 2009
New x-ray instrumentation will be the result of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding in the amount of $7.9 M obtained by the Advanced Photon Source as part of a competitive exercise among all four U.S. Department of Energy light source facilities at national laboratories. The funding will also allow the hiring of three technical support employees.
July 22, 2009
The Hard X-ray Nanoprobe at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory has received an R&D 100 award from R&D Magazine.
July 8, 2009
Randall E. Winans of the Argonne X-ray Science Division and the Advanced Photon Source has been elected to the inaugural 2009 class of Fellows of the American Chemical Society.
July 1, 2009
Efim Gluskin, Director of the Argonne Accelerator Systems Division in Photon Sciences, has been named an Argonne Distinguished Fellow, Argonne’s highest scientific and engineering rank.
June 29, 2009
Five members of Argonne Photon Sciences (PSC), the son of a PSC employee, and a team from Argonne’s Facilities Management and Services that is entrusted with mechanical maintenance of the APS facility were honored with UChicago Argonne, LLC Board of Governors for Argonne Awards for 2009.
June 24, 2009
Archaeologists studying trade artifacts from ancient Egypt at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory are seeking answers to worldly questions about ancient commerce.
June 15, 2009
Jeffrey T. Miller of Argonne has been presented with the 2009 Award for Excellence in Catalysis from the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York.
April 29, 2009
The Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory and the APS Users Organization announced that the 2009 Arthur H. Compton Award will be presented to Gerhard Grübel, Simon Mochrie, and Mark Sutton for their pioneering efforts in x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy.
April 28, 2009
Michel van Veenendaal of the Argonne X-ray Science Division’s Synchrotron Related Theory Group has been awarded a Northern Illinois University Presidential Research Professorship.
April 22, 2009
The world's brightest x-ray source sprang to life last week at the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The Linac Coherent Light Source offers researchers the first-ever glimpse of high-energy or "hard" x-ray laser light produced in a laboratory.
March 11, 2009
Jonathan Lang of the Argonne X-ray Science Division has been named the Photon Sciences Supervisor of the Year for 2008.
November 21, 2008
The white paper prepared for the Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences by the management and users of the Advanced Photon Source to set the foundation for renewal of this vital national research facility is now available in PDF format.
October 23, 2008
Diane Riendeau, winner of the 2008 American Association for the Advancement of Science Leadership in Science Education Prize for High School Teachers, paid a visit to Argonne National Laboratory.
September 16, 2008
As Guvenc Akgul goes about learning the finer points of x-ray spectroscopy from his colleagues at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source, he represents a bridge between countries that, while separated by culture, distance, or regional factionalism, can find common ground in science at synchrotron x-ray research facilities.
July 30, 2008
From the time of Roentgen’s first experiments with x-rays in 1895, this invisible light has afforded an opportunity to visualize the unseen. Now, three undergraduate students and their mentor, who are spending their summer doing research at the Argonne Advanced Photon Source as part of the Faculty and Student Teams Program, are seeing science in a whole new light.
July 7, 2008
Supplemental funding from U.S. Congress protects APS jobs and allows return to normal operating hours: Run 2008-02 extended by five days, Run 2008-03 returned to normal hours. Thanks to very effective advocacy by Advanced Photon Source (APS) users, and the support of the U.S. Congress, the APS has received an injection of funds that will enable the facility to function normally, at least until it receives a 2009 federal budget, expected next spring.
June 19, 2008
Thirty-three undulator control racks are the latest Linac Coherent Light Source components to be shipped from Argonne, capping a four-year design, development, and production effort.
June 16, 2008
What could have been a shattering let-down for NASA’s Genesis Discovery Mission has become an opportunity for synchrotron light source science to shine.
June 3, 2008
The UChicago Argonne, LLC Board of Governors for Argonne will honor two Advanced Photon Source staff members, a member of the Scientific User Facilities Directorate, and the son of another APS staffer with awards at its 2008 Awards Program on Tuesday, June 24, 2008.
May 28, 2008
Tim Fister, currently a postdoc in the Argonne Materials Science Division and designer of the LERIX detector at APS Sector 20, was awarded the Henderson Prize by the University of Washington Physics Department for the outstanding Ph.D. thesis from his graduating year.
May 21, 2008
APS scientists and engineers have successfully completed a critical task in support of the free-electron laser light source at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
May 5, 2008
The first of 33 Linac Coherent Light Source undulator support girder assemblies [designed at the Argonne Advanced Photon Source] has been readied for final alignment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
April 28, 2008
The earthquake that occurred in Illinois’ Wabash Valley fault system on Friday, April 18, could have caused a fault of different kind — a system fault that could have interrupted delivery of high-brightness x-ray beams to researchers using the Argonne Advanced Photon Source (APS). But thanks to the sophisticated technology in use at the APS — much of it developed at Argonne — experimenters who were taking data at the APS when the earthquake occurred at 4:36 a.m. (DST) were able to continue their research uninterrupted.
April 24, 2008
The Advanced Photon Source Users Organization has named Oleg G. Shpyrko, of the University of California, San Diego, as the recipient of the 2008 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award, which recognizes an important technical or scientific accomplishment by a young investigator that depended on, or is beneficial to, the APS. Shpyrko will receive the award on May 5 at the 2008 Users Week at Argonne National Laboratory, where he will also present his work.