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Summer research programs intrigue diverse students

Topher Flynn, left, student from Fort Lewis College, works with CHESS Staff Scientist Richard Gillilan in the CNF facility on campus to create microfluidic mixing chips to be used at the synchrotron.

Visiting students representing the next generation of physicists got a taste of life as a r

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Ambitious first-year students catch the research bug

Graduating a year early from Lansing High School, just outside of Ithaca, Campello contacted Cornell physics professor Jim Alexander, who connected him to staff at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS). They gave him a tour, and Campello signed on for a monthlong internship there while still in high school.

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