This last summer, Berkeley Lab hosted three students from Navajo Technical University in a DOE-funded initiative that partners national labs with learning institutions whose populations are historically underrepresented in science. The goal is to increase enrollment of Native American students in Navajo Tech engineering programs. Read more »
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ALS at the Far West Section of the American Physical Society Meeting
The 2024 Fall Meeting of the APS Far West Section at Cal Poly Humboldt featured over 100 students presenting research. Inspiring attendees through their expertise and mentorship were ALS colleagues Antoine Islegen-Wojdyla, Hendrik Ohldag, Xiaoya Chong, and Wei “Francis” He. Read more »
Engaging Future Scientists: Hosting Scouts at the ALS for Nuclear Science Day
As part of the Berkeley Lab’s Nuclear Science Division’s Nuclear Science Day, the ALS hosted 180 local scouts and 50 leaders for a day of science exploration around the light source. Activities included building electroscopes, detecting radon, and exploring particle detectors, with tours showcasing nuclear science at the Advanced Light Source. Read more »
Summer 2024 Shutdown Recap
The ALS is back in user operation after more than two months of shutdown. By now, more than 80% of the Accumulator Ring (AR) has been installed, as well as both of its radio frequency (RF) cavities. A number of other tasks were also completed. Read more »
Berkeley Lab User Facilities and University of Oklahoma Collaboration Awarded EPSCoR Grant
The ALS, Molecular Foundry, and a partner at the University of Oklahoma were recently awarded a four-year DOE EPSCoR grant to study bio-inspired membranes for recovering rare earth elements from waste streams. This project aims to develop a model for resource recovery applicable across industries. Read more »
Protein Pioneer: Enabling Scientists to Design Novel Proteins for the Future
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John M. Jumper for the development of protein structure prediction and design. At the ALS, Baker leveraged high-throughput small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) and protein crystallography capabilities to design novel proteins and pave a new pathway for science, technology, and the environment. Read more »
COSMIC Scattering Team Receives 2024 Klaus Halbach Instrumentation Award
The 2024 Klaus Halbach Award for Innovative Instrumentation at the ALS was presented at the annual User Meeting to the COSMIC Scattering Team “for the development of x-ray imaging and x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy instrumentation for investigating the spatiotemporal dynamics of functional magnetic and quantum materials at ALS Beamline 7.0.1.1.” Read more »
Mel Sibony Receives 2024 Tim Renner User Services Award
In celebration of his work, the ALS Users’ Executive Committee presented Mel Sibony with the 2024 Tim Renner User Services Award “for outstanding support of the ALS user community through the development and maintenance of the 4D software system and database and computer hardware at the ALS.”
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2024 User Meeting Highlights
Another successful ALS User Meeting was held August 12–14, bringing the ALS user community together under the sunny summer skies of Berkeley, California. Over 300 participants enjoyed an engaging program organized by the Users’ Executive Committee (UEC), led by User Meeting organizers Wendy Gu, Devin Grabner, Monsuru Ramoni, and Shan Wu. Read more »
Strategic ALS Projects Reach Key Milestones
Thanks to the hard work and dedication of multidisciplinary teams from groups across the ALS, a spate of important milestones occurred over the past month, for projects involving the new QERLIN beamline, the MERLIN beamline upgrade, and a new chamber for computer-chip metrology in Sector 12. Read more »
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