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<title>A Marriage of Hardware and Hard Work</title>

<pubDate>MAY 5, 2008</pubDate>

<description><![CDATA[The first of 33 Linac Coherent Light Source undulator support girder assemblies [designed at the Argonne Advanced Photon Source] has been readied for final alignment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.]]></description></item>

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<title>Shaken but Not Stirred</title>

<pubDate>APRIL 28, 2008</pubDate>

<description><![CDATA[The earthquake that occurred in Illinois&#8217; Wabash Valley fault system on Friday, April 18, could have caused a fault of different kind &#8212; a system fault that could have interrupted delivery of high-brightness x-ray beams to researchers using the Argonne Advanced Photon Source (APS). But thanks to the sophisticated technology in use at the APS &#8212; much of it developed at Argonne &#8212; experimenters who were taking data at the APS when the earthquake occurred at 4:36 a.m. (DST) were able to continue their research uninterrupted.]]></description></item>

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<title>2008 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award</title>

<pubDate>APRIL 24, 2008</pubDate>

<description><![CDATA[The Advanced Photon Source 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, which recognizes an important technical or scientific accomplishment by a young investigator that depended on, or is beneficial to, the APS. Shpyrko will receive the award on May 5 at the 2008 Users Week at Argonne National Laboratory, where he will also present his work.]]></description></item>

<item><link>http://www.aps.anl.gov/News/APS_News/Content/APS_NEWS_20080311B.php</link>

<title>A New Gas Loading System for Diamond Anvil Cells at GSECARS</title>

<pubDate>March 11, 2008</pubDate>

<description><![CDATA[A gas-loading system for diamond-anvil cells, designed and built by GSECARS, is now available at the APS.<br />
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<title>In R&amp;D, Super X-rays Mark Many Spots</title>

<pubDate>March 11, 2008</pubDate>

<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Advanced Photon Source (APS) at the U.S. Dept. of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has been kept busy of late.&#8221; That&#8217;s the first sentence of R&amp;D Magazine&#8217;s recent overview of research results from the APS.]]></description></item>

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<title>Sidorowicz Named &#8220;Supervisor of the Year&#8221;</title>

<pubDate>February 25, 2008</pubDate>

<description><![CDATA[Ken Sidorowicz, Information Technology Group Leader in the APS Engineering Support Division, was named the Scientific User Facilities 2007 Supervisor of the Year.]]></description></item>

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<title>SESS 2007: The School for Environmental Sciences with Synchrotrons</title>

<pubDate>February 19, 2008</pubDate>

<description><![CDATA[A School for Environmental Sciences with Synchrotrons was held at the APS to encourage the next generation of environmental scientists to begin their own research projects at the APS and other synchrotron facilities.]]></description></item>

<item><link>http://www.aps.anl.gov/News/APS_News/Content/APS_NEWS_20080109B.php</link>

<title>A Breakthrough in Interface Science</title>

<pubDate>January 9, 2008</pubDate>

<description><![CDATA[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 beamline, has been selected as one of the breakthroughs of the year for 2007 by Science magazine.]]></description></item>

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<title>Art and Science</title>

<pubDate>January 9, 2008</pubDate>

<description><![CDATA[Cutting-edge science that could help shape our energy future, combined with the graphic arts, has resulted in a winning scientific illustration based on experimentation carried out at the Argonne Advanced Photon Source.]]></description></item>

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<title>Albert Macrander named American Physical Society Fellow</title>

<pubDate>DECEMBER 10, 2007</pubDate>

<description><![CDATA[Albert Macrander of the Argonne X-ray Science Division (XSD) has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.]]></description></item>

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<title>Michael Borland named American Physical Society Fellow</title>

<pubDate>DECEMBER 4, 2007</pubDate>

<description><![CDATA[Michael Borland of the Argonne Accelerator Systems Division has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.]]></description></item>

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<title>Grad student is officially a GEMS</title>

<pubDate>OCTOBER 18, 2007</pubDate>

<description><![CDATA[Tao Sun (Northwestern University), who is currently doing his thesis research at the APS, has been awarded one of three Graduate Excellence in Materials Science Diamond awards by the Basic Science Division of The American Ceramic Society.]]></description></item>

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<title>NIU physicist Susan Mini lands NSF grant for APS beamline upgrades</title>

<pubDate>OCTOBER 12, 2007</pubDate>

<description><![CDATA[The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Susan Mini, chair of Northern Illinois University&#8217;s Department of Physics, a grant of nearly $1.4 million to make upgrades to a beamline at the Argonne Advanced Photon Source.]]></description></item>

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<title>Argonne&#8217;s Campuzano Honored by Hispanic Engineering</title>

<pubDate>AUGUST 28, 2007</pubDate>

<description><![CDATA[Juan Carlos Campuzano, an Argonne Distinguished Fellow and Advanced Photon Source user, is one of two Argonne researchers who have earned a coveted 2007 achievement award from HENAAC. ]]></description></item>

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<title>An R&amp;D-100 Award for a New Mammography System</title>

<pubDate>AUGUST 27, 2007</pubDate>

<description><![CDATA[A 2007 R&amp;D 100 Award has been garnered by a mammography system that could replace current technology.]]></description></item>

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<title>Bugs in the News</title>

<pubDate>AUGUST 27, 2007</pubDate>

<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s not a giant, translucent beetle attacking New York&#8217;s Times Square. It&#8217;s a graphical accompaniment to a study carried out at the Argonne Advanced Photon Source.]]></description></item>

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<title>Distinguished Performance Award to Michael Borland </title>

<pubDate>MAy 31, 2007</pubDate>

<description><![CDATA[Operations Analysis Group Leader to be honored for his work on software for accelerator physics research.]]></description></item>

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<title>Mariana Varotto honored as &#8220;Role Model&#8221;</title>

<pubDate>MAy 8, 2007</pubDate>

<description><![CDATA[Mariana Varotto of the Controls Group in the APS Engineering and Support Division at Argonne has been officially recognized as a role model for technology professionals.]]></description></item>

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<title>Argonne&#8217;s Joachimiak and Rosenbaum Honored with 2007 Compton Award</title>

<pubDate>APRIL 2, 2007</pubDate>

<description><![CDATA[The Advanced Photon Source and the APS Users Organization announced that the 2007 Arthur H. Compton Award was presented jointly to Andrzej Joachimiak (BIO) and Gerold Rosenbaum (SUF-USR).]]></description></item>

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<title>Art and Science Join Together at the Advanced Photon Source</title>

<pubDate>APRIL 2, 2007</pubDate>

<description><![CDATA[Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, with colleagues at the Art Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University, are using the Advanced Photon Source in their investigations of the casting technology and the inner structure of ancient bronzes from early Chinese dynasties (1700-221 BCE).]]></description></item>

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<title>First light for MERIX</title>

<pubDate>January 12, 2007</pubDate>

<description><![CDATA[The MERIX spectrometer was successfully commissioned in November-December 2006 at the sector 30 beamline of the Advanced Photon Source. This new spectrometer will be used for the study of collective valence electron excitations in correlated electron systems, primarily of transition-metal oxides.]]></description></item>

<item><link>http://www.aps.anl.gov/News/APS_News/Content/APS_NEWS_20070111B.php</link>

<title>APS user shares the &#8220;Israeli Nobel&#8221; for chemistry</title>

<pubDate>January 11, 2007</pubDate>

<description><![CDATA[An Israeli structural biologist and an American physicist will share the $100,000 Wolf Prize in Chemistry for their discoveries leading to a unified picture of basic biological mechanisms.]]></description></item>

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<title>Nanomagnetism and the grand challenges</title>

<pubDate>January 11, 2007</pubDate>

<description><![CDATA[The current status and future directions for the field of nanomagnetism and its relationship to hard x-rays is the subject of a topical review based on a study that explores future scientific directions for the Advanced Photon Source.]]></description></item></channel>
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