APS News 2012

Rose of APS and CNM One of Four DOE Early Career Award Winners

Rose of APS and CNM One of Four DOE Early Career Award Winners

May 16, 2012

Volker Rose, assistant physicist with the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science’s Advanced Photon Source and Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory is one of four Argonne researchers to receive 2012 Early Career Research Program awards, granted by the Department of Energy to exceptional researchers beginning their careers.
Scientists Close-In on Artificial Spider Silk

Scientists Close-In on Artificial Spider Silk

May 8, 2012

Paging Peter Parker: Scientists have taken another step closer to producing viable artificial spider silk by zooming-in on the nanoscopic structure of the natural, spider-made stuff, using the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science’s Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory.
Ekiert Earns 2012 APSUO Franklin Award for Studies of Influenza Virus

Ekiert Earns 2012 APSUO Franklin Award for Studies of Influenza Virus

May 4, 2012

The Advanced Photon Source Users Organization has named Damian C. Ekiert as the winner of the 2012 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award. The prize recognizes Ekiert’s work on broadly neutralizing antibodies, which holds promise for structure-based design of a universal vaccine for influenza. The award is to be presented at the APS Users Meeting on May 7, 2012.
Clever Apes on WBEZ: Breaking the Fossil Record

Clever Apes on WBEZ: Breaking the Fossil Record

March 9, 2012

Research at the Advanced Photon Source that is helping us understand dinosaur tissue was spotlighted on Clever Apes, the “Science Experiment” hosted by Gabriel Spitzer on Chicago’s WBEZ-FM 91.5 public radio station.
A Record Run for the APS X-ray Source

A Record Run for the APS X-ray Source

February 23, 2012

X-ray beams and their many useful properties bring thousands of scientists each year to synchrotron light source facilities such as the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science’s Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory to carry out world-class experiments. So there were many smiling faces around the APS when the recently completed user-beam run 2011-3 set a new APS record for machine availability and reliability.
Gerig to Chair Particle Accelerator School Board

Gerig to Chair Particle Accelerator School Board

February 23, 2012

Rod Gerig was selected chair of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Particle Accelerator School at the board’s annual meeting. Gerig is Deputy Associate Laboratory Director for Photon Sciences at Argonne National Laboratory, and is also the director of the Argonne Accelerator Institute.
George Srajer Appointed APS Upgrade Project Director

George Srajer Appointed APS Upgrade Project Director

February 21, 2012

Argonne National Laboratory Director Eric Isaacs has appointed George Srajer to the position of Project Director for the Advanced Photon Source Upgrade project, and Deputy Associate Laboratory Director of Facility Development for Photon Sciences.
Alp of XSD Elected to FIP Executive Committee

Alp of XSD Elected to FIP Executive Committee

February 21, 2012

Esen Ercan Alp, Senior Scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory Advanced Photon Source, has been elected to Vice-Chair and the 4-Year Chair Line term of the American Physical Society Forum on International Physics.
Toby of XSD to Chair U.S. National Committee for Crystallography

Toby of XSD to Chair U.S. National Committee for Crystallography

February 16, 2012

Brian Toby of the Argonne X-ray Science Division has been named chair of the U.S. National Committee for Crystallography by the National Academy of Sciences for a three-year term effective January 1, 2012.
Controlling the Inner Electron Dance

Controlling the Inner Electron Dance

January 9, 2012

Linda Young, Director of the X-ray Science Division in Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source; Elliot Kanter, of the Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Group in the X-ray Science Division; and their colleagues used the Linac Coherent Light Source at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to achieve a feat of electron terpsichore.