Now housed inside the Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory, the MLC is the latest addition to Cornell’s own particle accelerator located under Alumni Field.

The MLC is the product of over twenty thousand hours of work within Newman Lab, built and designed with the help of a grant from the National Science Foundation to explore technologies for use in the next generation of particle accelerators. Its seven superconducting cavities funnel energy into particle beams to help scientists study, basic building blocks of matter, solid state physics and even human biology.

Most of us have never purposely removed the innards of any computer just to see what pieces fit where, or how each complex element is intentionally connected to another. A group of students from the Greater Ithaca Activities Center are doing just that -- spending six weeks this spring removing, identifying, labeling and reassembling the hardware of old computers to learn how the major components work in synchrony as one powerful device.

However, students from the groups of Brian Korgel and Tom Truskett at the University of Texas at Austin, found just the opposite behavior in superlattices of small gold nanoparticles [1]. These consist of a 2 nm gold core surrounded by organic octodecane thiol ligands with about the same length. Upon casting from solution, these particles form superlattices with a BCC structure [2]. Similar to block copolymer micelles with sufficiently long ligands the BCC lattice is favored over the denser FCC lattice, as the entropy of the ligands is maximized [3,4].

Most commercial rechargeable batteries are based on lithium ion intercalation into layered metal oxides, the mechanism of which is fairly well understood. To move forward in the development of better electrode materials, deeper insights into heretofore unexplored methods of charge storage must be gained.

Integral membrane proteins also are notoriously hard to synthesize and study, which explains why so few have been fully, three-dimensionally characterized with protein crystallography. Using standard recombinant DNA techniques and some novel design principles, Cornell chemical engineers have developed a new method for making large quantities of integral membrane proteins simply and inexpensively – all without the use of harsh chemicals, or detergents, typically used today.

Undergraduates will model “Irradiance” – a collection of electrogarments designed by Eric Beaudette ’16, fiber science; Lina Sanchez Botero, graduate student in the field of fiber science; and Neal Reynolds, graduate student in the field of physics – on the runway at the Cornell Fashion Collective, Saturday, April 11, at 8 p.m. at Barton Hall.

Although the desire to streamline was paramount along with a responsive display that works across multiple devices, we wanted to visually highlight our users and scientists in action at the lab and sprinkle their news articles across the site. We chose a CMS platform, Drupal 8, which in addition to those and many other engaging digital experience features, allows for accessible content entry. The results of the project were revealed last month.

The project director Lora Hine is manager of Xraise, the education and public outreach program at CHESS. Xraise will be working in collaboration with the principal of the Beverly J. Martin (BJM) Elementary School and the second/third grade teacher teams at BJM Elementary School, part of the Ithaca City School District.

Drs. Turner and Shade lead the experimental and modeling components of the high-energy diffraction microscopy team. The effort continues to develop novel, high quality, and world-first datasets to validate micromechanical models with the longer-term goal of advancing microstructure-based component lifetime predictions for aerospace alloy systems.

One of her research specialties is using two-dimensional high-resolution elemental maps of small sections of fish ear stones, called otoliths, as time-stamped records of the histories of fishes’ lives and marine conditions. Her studies have challenged many CHESS scientists over the years to further develop scanning x-ray fluorescence microscopy (SXFM) at the F3 station, including Don Bilderback and Rong Huang who produced microbeams with tapered glass capillaries and Darren Dale who built software for rapid data collection, analysis and visualization of elemental maps (1,2).