The first undulator support girder assembly for the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) made its way from the Collider Hall, where technicians are piecing them together, to the Magnetic Measurement Facility for final alignment.

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).

The Advanced Photon Source (APS) 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.

The 2008 Three-Way Meeting (3WM) between the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), the Super Photon Ring-8 GeV (SPring-8), and the Advanced Photon Source (APS) was held at Argonne on March 18-19, 2008, with more than 20 representatives from each facility.

“The Advanced Photon Source (APS) at the U.S. Dept. of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has been kept busy of late.”

The diamond anvil cell (DAC) is the most commonly used device for obtaining static high pressures above 3 GPa. Experiments in the DAC are frequently performed at the APS, in particular at GSECARS (Sector 13), HP-CAT (Sector 16), and at XOR sectors 1 and 3.

Ken Sidorowicz, Information Technology (IT) Group Leader in the APS Engineering Support Division (AES), was named the Scientific User Facilities (SUF) 2007 Supervisor of the Year “based upon his demonstrated outstanding technical leadership, which is exemplified by his leadership, his ability to inspire and motivate his team, and his proactive approach to promoting the success of the APS … through application of new trends in information technology.”

Practitioners of the environmental sciences have traditionally been under-represented as users of x-ray spectromicroscopy tools.

Cutting-edge science that could help shape our energy future, combined with the graphic arts, has resulted in an award-winning scientific illustration based on experimentation carried out at the Argonne Advanced Photon Source (APS).

The intricate dance of electrons at the interface between ferromagnetic and superconducting oxides that was studied with unprecedented clarity by researchers using an Advanced Photon Source (APS) beamline, has been selected as one of the breakthroughs of the year for 2007 by Science magazine.

The direction of an electron's spin is sufficient to determine the decomposition rate of the two mirror-image forms of a molecule.

Albert Macrander of the Argonne X-ray Science Division (XSD) has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. The Fellowship citation is for “advancement of x-ray science, x-ray optics, and x-ray measurements on crystals and for his leadership as Editor of the Review of Scientific Instruments.”

Michael Borland of the Argonne Accelerator Systems Division has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. The honor recognizes his "outstanding contributions to fourth-generation light sources, particularly for development and support of the program ELEGANT, the first integrated accelerator code to realistically model coherent synchrotron radiation effects."

Tao Sun, a third-year graduate student from Professor Dravid Vinayak’s group at Northwestern University who is currently doing his thesis research at the Advanced Photon Source at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, has been awarded one of three Graduate Excellence in Materials Science (GEMS) Diamond awards by the Basic Science Division of The American Ceramic Society.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Susan Mini, chair of Northern Illinois University’s Department of Physics, a grant of nearly $1.4 million to make upgrades to a beamline at the Argonne Advanced Photon Source (APS).

Juan Carlos Campuzano, an Argonne Distinguished Fellow and Advanced Photon Source (APS) user, is one of two Argonne researchers who have earned a coveted 2007 achievement award from HENAAC.

A 2007 R&D 100 Award has been garnered by the Ultra-High-Resolution Mammography System (UHRMS) that equips doctors with a low-cost, high-quality alternative to digital radiography (currently the most popular mammographic technology at leading hospitals).

That’s not a giant, translucent beetle attacking New York’s Times Square in the photo at right. It’s a graphical accompaniment to a study carried out at the Argonne Advanced Photon Source that revealed new information about what factors govern the size of today’s insects vs.

Cedric “Rick” Putnam of the APS Engineering and Support Division (AES) Mechanical Operations and Maintenance Group is one of four Argonne employees to be presented with The University of Chicago Board of Governors for Argonne Outstanding Service Award for 2007. 

Michael Borland, Operations Analysis Group Leader in the Accelerator Systems Division of the Advanced Photon Source (APS), is one of four Argonne employees to be presented with a Distinguished Performance Award for 2007.