Congratulations to new PhD Eric Cropp! Thesis: "High-Performance Accelerator Modeling: Toward Improving Controls and Diagnostics for High-Brightness Beams in Experiment"

Congratulations to CBB Professor David Muller and CBB’s advisory board member, Dr. Yimei Zhu, recipients of prestigious awards at the 20th International Microscopy Congress. These awards honor outstanding contributions of individual scientists and their achievements in the field of microscopy and related techniques.

Congratulations to Poster Session Winners! Our symposium speakers had the pleasure of selecting winners of this year’s Annual Symposium poster session. The decision was extremely difficult as all were excellent. In alphabetical order, the winners were Juan Pablo Gonzalez Aguilera, Fabio Bosco, Chad Pennington, and Liana Shpani.

Congratulations new PhD, Dr. Gevork Gevorkyan. He will begin work at the Mayo Clinic in Radiation Oncology as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow.

Lena F. Kourkoutis, M.S. ’06, Ph.D. ’09, an associate professor in Cornell’s School of Applied and Engineering Physics who was internationally recognized for her advances in cryo-electron microscopy, died on June 24 after living with colon cancer for about two years.

Congratulations to new PhD Michelle Kelley! Thesis: "EFFECTIVE QUANTUM MANY-BODY THEORIES: STUDIES OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE & ELECTRON–PHONON COUPLED PROPERTIES NEAR INTERFACES IN SUPERCONDUCTORS" 

Congratulations Dr. Pallavi Saha who successfully defended her thesis titled "Growth and Characterization of Cesium-antimonide Photocathodes." Dr. Saha has accepted a postdoctoral fellow position at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Congratulations to Dr. Chris Knill who defended his thesis titled “Practical Limitations of Low Mean Transverse Energy Metallic Photocathodes” Dr. Knill has accepted a position with Honeywell ACST as an Advanced R&D Scientist.

Research from the Center for Bright Beams reveals the potential for greater control over the growth of superconducting Nb3Sn films, which could significantly reduce the cost and size of cryogenic infrastructure required for superconducting technology.

Awarded the Microscopy & Microanalysis Student Scholar Award for his paper entitled "Measuring three-dimensional strain in Nb3Sn grains by combining ZOLZ and HOLZ diffraction."