The ALS returned to user operations on August 23 after its summer shutdown. The work included larger projects, such as installation of magnet stands for the ALS-U accumulator ring and the replacement of the liquid nitrogen tank, as well as several other facility improvements. Read more »
Kevan Anderson and the BCG Receive 2022 Renner User Services Award
At this year’s ALS User Meeting, Kevan Anderson, on behalf of the Beamline Controls Group (BCG), was honored with the 2022 Tim Renner User Services Award. The ALS Users’ Executive Committee made the selection for “broad expertise in control systems and software development, and professional judgment and decision-making, which have greatly contributed to the research and development program of the Advanced Light Source.” Read more »
Hendrik Ohldag Elected AVS Fellow
Hendrik Ohldag has been elected as a Fellow of the AVS for exploring complex magnetic phenomena using novel x-ray techniques with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution. Read more »
Cheng Wang Wins RSC Stephanie L. Kwolek Award
Recently the Royal Society of Chemistry awarded its Materials Chemistry Division Horizon Prize: Stephanie L. Kwolek Award to a team of scientists, including ALS Staff Scientist Cheng Wang, for the discovery of chiral organic materials that allow high control of photon and electron spin. Read more »
Three SCGSR Awardees to Conduct Research at the ALS
The Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program will provide Michelle Devoe (UC Berkeley), Abraham Lewis Levitan (MIT), and Dayne Yoshiki Sasaki (UC Davis) with supplemental awards to conduct research at the ALS in areas that address scientific challenges central to the Office of Science mission. Read more »
Winter 2022 Shutdown Recap
The main driver for the recent shutdown (January to early March) was preparing the storage ring wall for the installation of the ALS-U accumulator ring. Check out the video of all the projects that took place during this shutdown. Read more »
ALS Scientists to Collaborate on Three DOE Small Business Awards
Three Bay Area companies have been awarded DOE Phase I small business grants to collaborate with ALS scientists to conduct R&D. Rochester Scientific and HighRi Optics will work with Valeriy Yashchuk and MLtwist will work with Alex Hexemer. Read more »
Diane Bryant, Senior Scientific Engineering Associate
Diane Bryant shares what she likes about working at the ALS, why she chairs the career and professional development task force, and the fun activity she does to take her mind off work. Read more »
ALS in the News (December 2021)
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- BCSB determines interactions of potential inhibitor with SARS-CoV-2 protease
- Howard Padmore receives Berkeley Lab lifetime achievement award
- Collin Foster to spend a study year at Berkeley Lab
- Professor Daniel Knopf tries to predict how ice forms in clouds
- Converting methane to methanol – with and without water
- Berkeley Lab awarded more than $13 million for electric vehicle battery research
- Revolutionizing data access through Tiled
- Government scientists recover hypothesized crystal from deep within earth
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Alyssa Brand, Chemical Safety Specialist
Alyssa Brand recently joined the ALS safety team. She’s not new to the Lab—she previously worked at the Molecular Foundry and in the EH&S Division. She is excited to join the ALS and learn more about all the science going on here. Read more »
