APS News Articles 2004
Bio-CAT Research Selected as "Breakthrough"
for 2004 (Dec.
21)
A
study carried out at Bio-CAT (APS sector 18) and the Advanced
Light Source (ALS, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) that
revealed detailed information about the nearest neighbor coordination
geometry in liquid water is prominently featured in one of
Science magazine’s Runner-Up Breakthroughs of the Year
for 2004.
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Australian Consul-General Visits APS (Nov. 23)
It's a short hop from the Australian Consulate in Chicago to the Advanced Photon Source (APS), but a recent visit from the Australian Consul-General and Deputy Consul-General is symbolic of an international collaboration that spans the 9,272 air miles from Sydney to Chicago.
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Gabrielle Long Elected AAAS Fellow (Oct.
14)
Dr.
Gabrielle Long, Associate Director for the ANL Experimental
Facilities Division, has been named a Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In notifying
Long of her election, the AAAS noted, "Each year the Council
elects members whose 'efforts on behalf of the advancement
of science or its applications are scientifically or socially
distinguished.' The honor of being elected a Fellow of
AAAS began in 1874 and is acknowledged with a certificate and
a rosette.
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Mao of HP-CAT Awarded Aminoff Prize in
Crystallography (Oct.
11)
The
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded David H. Mao of
the Geophysical Laboratory the Gregori Aminoff Prize in Crystallography
2005 "for pioneering research of materials at ultrahigh
pressures and temperatures." Dr. Mao is the Director of
the High Pressure Collaborative Access Team, which manages the
beamlines at Advanced Photon Source (APS) sector 16.
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Scott Benes is APS Supervisor of
the Year (Oct.
1)
Scott
Benes (Chief Technician, ASD-Controls) is the first winner
of the Advanced Photon Source (APS) Supervisor of the Year
award. Benes was surprised with the award during an APS “all-hands” meeting
on September 28.
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Alexis Templeton wins first APSUO Rosalind Franklin Young
Investigator Award (Apr. 27)
The
Advanced Photon Source (APS) Users Organization is pleased
to announce that Dr. Alexis S. Templeton has been chosen to
receive the first APS Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator
Award. Dr. Templeton will receive this award, which consists
of a plaque plus $1000, on Thursday, May 6 at the closing session
of the 2004 APS User Meeting. At that time, Dr. Templeton will
also deliver a short talk about her work.
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COM-CAT Request for Proposals Issued (Mar. 29)
A request for proposals (RFP) to operate the Commercial Collaborative Access Team (COM-CAT) beamline at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) has been issued effective March 16, 2004.
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IMCA-CAT Management Contract to Be Re-Competed (Mar. 8)
A Request for Proposal (RFP) has been issued for the contract to
manage the Industrial Macromolecular Crystallography Association
Collaborative Access Team (IMCA-CAT) beamlines at APS sector
17. The RFP is issued by the Industrial Macromolecular Crystallography
Association, the group of pharmaceutical companies that comprise
the membership of IMCA-CAT.
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Engineering Undergrads See X-ray Science
from the Inside at GSECARS (Mar. 5)
A
group of undergraduate students participating in a National Science
Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
program, recently performed a series of synchrotron x-ray tomography
experiments at the GeoSoilEnviroCARS beamline 13-BM at the APS,
in collaboration with Mark Rivers (University of Chicago).
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APSUO
Announces Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award (Feb.
13)
In conjunction with the Advanced Photon Source (APS), the APS
Users Organization (APSUO) has established the APSUO Rosalind
Franklin Young Investigator Award. The nomination deadline for
this award is March 15, 2004. The award will be presented at
the 2004 Users Meeting for the Advanced Photon Source, held at
Argonne on May 3-6, 2004.
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The Molecules Behind Tay-Sachs Disease (Jan. 16)
Researchers
using the BioCARS sector 14 beamline at the APS have determined how
changes in a pair of proteins lead to the family of neurological
disorders that includes Tay-Sachs disease. They solved the three-dimensional
structure of one protein essential to Tay-Sachs and modeled the structure
of a second key protein based on the first. The results help explain
why different mutations lead to different forms of the same class
of neurological disorder, and may help in developing treatments against
them.
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