Prof. Tai-Chang Chiang of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a long-time user of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source is a co-recipient of the 2015 Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics sponsored by the Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics of the American Physical Society.

Peter Crane, the Carl W. Knobloch, Jr., Dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) and a long-time user of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source, has been awarded the 2014 International Prize for Biology administered by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) for his work on the evolutionary history of plants.

The 2014 American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Energy & Fuels Distinguished Service Award was presented to Dr. Randy Winans of the Argonne X-ray Science Division in the Advanced Photon Source at the annual dinner in August 2014.

An x-ray crystal structure solved by Philip Coppens, a founding member of ChemMatCARS at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory, has been chosen as one of the world’s top 10 molecular structures ever solved.

Professor Mark C. Hersam, a Northwestern University materials engineer and member of the DuPont-Northwestern-Dow Collaborative Access Team (DND-CAT) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source has been named a 2014 MacArthur Fellow.

Michael Borland, Associate Division Director of the Argonne Accelerator Systems Division in the Photon Sciences Directorate, is one of four Argonne National Laboratory scientists named as Argonne Distinguished Fellows for 2014, the Laboratory’s highest scientific and engineering rank.

Kwang-Je Kim of the Advanced Photon Source has been named the recipient of the 2014 Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators,

Katherine Harkay of the Accelerator Systems Division has been elected to Fellowship in the American Physical Society for “significant contributions to the understanding of the physics of electron cloud effects and the experimental investigation and understanding of collective effects, as well as for playing leading roles in development of photocathodes and superconducting undulator technology."

Peter Chupas of the Advanced Photon Source has been named one of the Chicago “40 Under 40: 2013” by Crain’s Chicago Business.

Ali Khounsary of the APS Engineering Support Division has been appointed as an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer.

The 2013 U.S. Particle Accelerator School Prize for Achievement in Accelerator Physics and Technology has been awarded to Argonne Distinguished Fellow Kwang-Je Kim of the Advanced Photon Source.

Linda Young, Director of the Argonne X-ray Science Division at the Advanced Photon Source has been appointed an Associate Editor of “Structural Dynamics,” a new journal aimed for the community of scientists working on the development, implementation, and use of new tools for the determination of static and time-evolving structures.

A diffraction pattern obtained using x-rays from the new Advanced Photon Source superconducting undulator is the cover image of Nature Materials, August 2013, Volume 12.

From the Chicago Tribune: Argonne, Smithsonian collaboration looks for breakthrough science in earliest photos.

From Sciencecodex: A new study on the feeding habits of ocean microbes calls into question the potential use of algal blooms to trap carbon dioxide and offset rising global levels, thanks in large part to research carried out at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science’s Advanced Photon Source.

From R&D Magazine online: An international team of scientists using a new x-ray method at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science’s Advanced Photon Source recorded the internal structure and cell movement inside a living frog embryo in greater detail than ever before.

From ScienceBlog: An international collaboration of scientists utilizing the bright x-ray beams from the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory has discovered a unique crystalizing behavior at the interface between two immiscible liquids that could aid in sustainable energy development.

Thanks to new research by an international team of researchers led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, physicists have developed new methods for controlling magnetic order in a particular class of materials known as "magnetoelectrics." Published on line by Laboratory Equipment from an Argonne press release.

Thanks in part to research performed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded today to Americans Brian Kobilka and Robert Lefkowitz for their work on G-protein-coupled receptors.

The Illinois Institute of Technology, in conjunction with the Chicago Council on Science and Technology and Argonne National Laboratory, hosted a crossroads event Wednesday, bridging the art and science of understanding Picasso.