A paper authored by two Advanced Photon Source scientists, on “two new methods for forming amorphous solids from molecular liquids and solutions of a wide range of pharmaceutical drugs of varying chemical structures and different functions,” is one of the first five papers published in volume 1, issue 1 of Physical Review X (PRX) a new, open-access journal.

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Argonne Distinguished Fellow and Argonne National Laboratory X-ray Science Division (XSD) Director Linda Young has been elected vice chair of the Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics of the American Physical Society (DAMOP).  The position became official at the 2011 DAMOP Meeting held at Atlanta, Georgia, on June 13-17. The four-year-term position starts with vice chair and progresses to chair elect, chair, and then past chair.

Keith Moffat has been selected as the recipient of the 2011 Patterson Award from the American Crystallographic Association (ACA). Moffat is Principal Investigator for the BioCARS research facility at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science’s Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory. From 2002-2010 he was the Deputy Provost for Research at the University of Chicago.

Paul Fenter, a physicist in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, has been named the next recipient of the American Crystallographic Association’s (ACA) Bertram E. Warren Award, which recognizes contributions to the physics of solids through the use of diffraction-based techniques.

Lahsen Assoufid has been elected a Fellow of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. He is Section Leader for Mirror Multilayer and Metrology in the X-ray Science Division (XSD) Optics and Detectors Group of the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source (APS) and the APS Users Organization (APSUO) announce that the 2011 Arthur H. Compton Award will be presented jointly to Edward Stern, Farrel Lytle, Dale Sayers (posthumously), and John Rehr for their development of the technique of x-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy (XAFS), whereby information can be acquired on local structure and on unoccupied electronic states in non‐crystalline materials.

A special issue of the journal X-Ray Optics and Instrumentation on “X-ray Focusing: Techniques and Applications” has been published and is available online in an open-source archival format for download.

Close to 8000 researchers, educators, and students converged on Dallas, Texas, for the March Meeting of the American Physical Society – the biggest gathering in the physics calendar bar none. If you weren't able to make it to Texas, however, all is not lost.

John M. “Jack” Carpenter of the APS Engineering Support Division (AES) at Argonne National Laboratory has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) "for distinguished service to the materials sciences community by original innovation of pulsed spallation neutron sources and instrumentation for research using neutron scattering facilities."

Lahsen Assoufid has been made a Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA) “For contributions and leadership in x-ray optics, metrology, and nanofocusing optics development.” He is Section Leader for Mirror Multilayer and Metrology in the X-ray Science Division (XSD) Optics and Detectors Group at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory.

George Srajer and Jin Wang, both of the Argonne X-ray Science Division (XSD) at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science’s Advanced Photon Source, have been elected Fellows of the American Physical Society (APS).

A novel positron emission tomography (PET) system for molecular imaging is one of seven initiatives receiving funding from Strategic Collaborative Initiative (SCI) seed grants following a rigorous competition managed by Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago. Wah-Keat Lee of the Argonne X-ray Science Division (XSD) is the Argonne Investigator on the project, and Chien-Min Kao, Associate Professor of Radiology, is the University of Chicago Investigator.

Bates is a chemical engineer and materials scientist at the University of Minnesota. He makes block copolymers — a kind of plastic. Copolymer means they're made from two different plastics, the end product having the best properties of both.

Argonne Director Eric Isaacs has appointed G. Brian Stephenson as the Interim Associate Laboratory Director for Photon Sciences, effective Oct. 1, 2010. The text of Director Isaacs’ announcement is below.

College students and mentors from a number of universities spent 10 weeks this summer learning at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Photon Source (APS) and other facilities and divisions at Argonne National Laboratory as part of the DOE/National Science Foundation-funded Faculty and Student Teams (FaST) program.

Researchers have discovered that at least one species of caterpillar precedes each step with a thrust of its gut. The finding, based on experiments carried out at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory points to an entirely new mode of animal locomotion and could lead researchers to develop new robotic tools for exploration and medicine.

Robert Fischetti of the Argonne Biosciences Division, and Associate Director of the General Medicine and Cancer Institutes Collaborative Access Team (GM/CAT-CAT) at Sector 23 of the Advanced Photon Source (APS), is featured in the article “Crystal-Clear Images” in the 10 June 2010 issue of Nature.

Two innovative x-ray technologies that enhance science's ability to study large biological proteins and nanomaterials have won R&D 100 awards, regarded as the "Oscars of invention," for the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory.

Ken Sidorowicz of the APS Engineering Support Division (AES) is one of four winners of the 2010 UChicago Argonne, LLC Board of Governors Outstanding Service Award.