Bringing together passionate learners and experts alike, our recent intensive three-day school, has been an enriching and pleasant experience! This focused event was not only critical to address the challenge of interpreting nuclear resonance spectroscopy data, but also a unique opportunity for participants to bond over shared interests and challenges. We celebrate the dedication and enthusiasm that each participant...

The Advanced Photon Source (APS) General User Proposal (GUP) call for the 2025-3 cycle will open on May 19 with a deadline of June 25, 2025, at 2PM Chicago time. We just wanted to provide users a brief update about the status of our SEES-funded beamlines at APS with regard to supporting experiments in the 2025-3 cycle. All SEES beamlines at the APS (3-ID, 6-BM, and all Sector 13 beamlines) will participate in the 2025-3...

I. Continuum Infrared Microscope at NSLS-II: BIC project updateThe BioImaging Core (BIC) of the NSLS-II/CBMS is rebuilding a Nicolet Continuum Infrared Microscope that was routinely used for Environmental Sciences at the original NSLS. BIC is collaborating with the 22-IR lead beamline scientist and team to integrate the IR microscope into the 22-IR photon delivery system. Replacing the glowbar source with synchrotron IR...

As announced by Ka Yee C. Lee, Interim Dean, Physical Sciences Division, The University of Chicago Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to announce that the 2025 recipient of the Arthur L. Kelly Faculty Prize for Exceptional Service in the Physical Sciences Division is Andrew J. Campbell. The prize was established in the Division in 2013 by Arthur L. Kelly, who received his MBA from the University in 1964 and established the...

The Synchrotron Environmental Science (SES) Symposium will be held at Stony Brook University from September 29 – October 1, 2025. This symposium will unite leading experts in synchrotron research and environmental science to foster dialogue, collaboration, and innovation. The 8th SES Symposium focuses on the complex interplay amongst and between hydrologic, geomorphic, geochemical, and biological processes and how this...

Held jointly at the University of Chicago on August 11-13, 2025. Keynote speakers will discuss topics in rock and mineral deformation and rheological properties in Earth, and there will be a poster session with a broad scientific focus.

We are pleased to invite you to our upcoming 1-day workshop at Goldschmidt 2025. This one-day workshop will highlight soft and tender X-ray STXM and nanoprobe beamlines supported by SEES at ALS and SSRL: ALS 5.3.2.2: Soft X-ray scanning transmission X-ray microscopy ALS 7.0.1.2: Coherent Scattering and Microscopy (COSMIC)imaging ALS 11.0.2.2: Molecular Environmental Science Scanning Transmission SSRL 14-3b: Tender X-ray...

We are excited to see the Static, Dynamic, and Shock high-pressure communities merge their sciences this year at the SCCM 2025: 24th International Conference on the Science of Compression in Condensed Matter (Washington DC, June 22-27). We highly encourage your participation in this unique event and look forward to receiving your abstract contributions in one of the sessions or masterclasses that we organize: 1b -...