Photo provided by Stony Brook University   SEES staff and executive committee members were delighted to take part in the 2025 Synchrotron Environmental Science (SES) Symposium at Stony Brook University, which brought together the synchrotron and environmental...

SEES joined the largest-ever South Side Science Festival on October 4, welcoming over 4,300 visitors to the University of Chicago campus for a day of hands-on science. Free and open to the public, the festival featured more than 100 interactive exhibits designed for...

Happy National Postdoc Appreciation Week! We’re proud to highlight our postdocs and share a glimpse of the people behind the research. Dr. Qi Chen Affiliation: Advanced Photon Source – Argonne National Laboratory Mentor: Dr. Yanbin Wang (GSECARS) Research Focus: I...

We were thrilled to see so many of you at the 2025 SEES-ISRD meeting! Inspiring talks, a lively poster session, collaborative working groups, and a behind-the-scenes tour of the SEES-funded facilities at APS made for a truly memorable few days. Thank you for joining...

As part of the American Crystallographic Association 2025 Conference, beamline staff led tours highlighting SEES facilities and science at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory. Visiting groups were organized by scientific focus, including Chemical...

SEES Scientists Dr. Kyounglim Kang (Advanced Light Source) and Dr. Roberto Colina-Ruiz (GSECARS Beamline Scientist at National Synchrotron Light Source II) co-chaired a topical session at the recent Goldschmidt conference in Prague, Czech Republic. The session brought...

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...

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...

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...

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...