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As part of Xraise’s initiative to provide high school teachers and educators with state of the art technology to use in their classroom, the outreach group has acquired two Bruker handheld x-ray fluorescence (XRF) devices for their Lending Library program.

For many undergraduate students, the idea of spending the summer away from friends and family to work at a state-of-the-art synchrotron radiation facility under the supervision of a research scientist is an intimidating prospect.

An eight-hour van ride to Long Island did not deter Xraise from participating in the May 2017 joint National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS-II) and Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) User Meeting at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

CHESS enjoyed a strong presence at the March APS meeting in New Orleans last month.

CHESS is continuing our tradition of bringing bright and eager community college students from across New York State to participate in research for this coming summer.

Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source is committed to advancing our world through synchrotron science.

In the summer of 2015, two female undergraduate students decided to bike across country from San Francisco to New York City.

Universities across the country are investigating various ways to successfully recruit and retain minority students in an effort to train a more diverse pool of scholars prepared for careers in science and engineering.