APS News 2009
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.