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NSLS Sons, Daughters Become Materials Science Detectives
Scouring the experimental floor for clues, about 50 children of NSLS users and staff members took on the role of scientific detectives on April 24 as part of the national Take our Sons and Daughters to Work Day. After learning about the basics of synchrotron science, the students were divided into groups and given a toy model of a mystery compound. They then canvassed various beamlines to figure out what techniques could tell them the most about their material.

NSLS Users Earn Prestigious Honors
Four users were recently honored for scientific achievement, including: University of Delaware professor Jingguang Chen, winner of the 2008 Award for Excellence in Catalysis from the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York; Florida State University researcher Linda Hirst, recipient of a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development grant for research involving cell membranes; Carnegie Institution of Washington researcher Ho-kwang (Dave) Mao, winner of the American Geophysical Union’s Inge Lehmann Medal; and Brookhaven chemist José Rodriguez, who received HENAAC’s Outstanding Technical Achievement Award.

Brookhaven Lab Scientists Receive Hall of Fame Award for Microbeam Radiation Therapy
Brookhaven scientists F. Avraham Dilmanian and James F. Hainfeld, together with Gerard M. Morris, a guest researcher at Brookhaven and a senior research scientist at Morvus Technology Ltd., Wales, have won The Long Island Technology Hall of Fame award for the most innovative patent in the category of innovation for the individual. The patent for a method for implementing an experimental procedure to treat cancer, called microbeam radiation therapy (MRT), was chosen for the award from among more than 1,600 patents that were granted to Long Island residents in 2007.

Al Boerner, Mike Buckley Receive Team Sitewide Safety Stewardship Award
NSLS employees Al Boerner and Mike Buckley received a team 2007 Sitewide Safety Stewardship (S3) Award on March 27 for their efforts to ensure that Laboratory suppliers follow proper Integrated Safety Management (ISM) practices. Started in 2006, the S3 program recognizes outstanding awareness and implementation of health and safety improvements and corrective actions. Boerner and Buckley were among five winners and four runners-up to receive the honor.

NSLS Black Diamond Research Among Discover Magazine's 2007 Tops
The determination of the origin of Earth’s so-called black diamonds at the NSLS was ranked 60th among the top 100 scientific stories of 2007 by Discover Magazine. The article, which details "the trends and events that most changed our understanding of our world," appears in the magazine's January 2008 issue.

At the Cutting Edge of Bright Beams: The NSLS Source Development Laboratory
Inspired by the myriad of discoveries with synchrotron light at the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) and similar facilities around the world, researchers are always looking for more brilliant beams of light. To develop this next-generation of light sources, the accelerator physicists at the NSLS Source Development Laboratory (SDL) make use of a magnesium photocathode irradiated by ultraviolet laser light to produce electron beams of unprecedented brightness.