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Spotlight
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Former CHESS user forms start-up company for 3D printing of ceramics

Justin Mach, right, from Caterpillar works with CHESS Graduate Student Chris Budrow during Justin's latest beam time. 

Industrial Impact at CHESS. Q&A with Justin Mach, an Engineer at Caterpillar Inc.

CHESS believes that science can be a driving force for economic growth.

Topher Flynn and Richard Gillilan

Microfluidic mixing chips can reveal how biomolecules interact

Christopher Flynn, a fourth year student majoring in Physics and Mathematics at Fort Lewis College, and a SUnRiSE student at Cornell this summer, is contributing to the design of microfluidic mixin

Al Kovaleski Grape Scan

Surviving the Cold: understanding how grape buds react to subzero temperatures

Graduate student Al Kovaleski is working to understand how grape buds react to subzero temperatures that are common during winter in the Northeast.

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