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Congratulations to Professor Young-Kee Kim on her election to the National Academy of Sciences. Young-Kee Kim is the Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor of Physics. She is an experimental particle physicist, and devotes much of her research to understanding the origin of mass for fundamental particles. 
Young-Kee Kim's team from University of Chicago presents CBB research at the April APS Meeting in New York, NY. April 9 - 12, 2022.
The Center for Bright Beams cosponsors Expanding Your Horizons 2022! Providing hands-on opportunities for girls grades 7 - 9 and their parents to learn about careers in STEM.
Congratulations Rachael Farber on Assistant Professor appointment at the University of Kansas.
The Center for Bright Beams Beam Production Team is fixing the surface disorder of films by controlling the orientation of Cs3Sb’s atoms.
Celebrating International Women's Day, March 8, 2022. CBB faculty Young-Kee Kim, Ritchie Patterson, and Sandra Biedron at University of Chicago Physics Colloquium.
Improving SRF Cavities with Surface Chemistry - Sarah Willson
Interested in Research Experiences for Undergraduates? Deadline to apply to Brigham Young University's Summer REU program is February 14. Deadline to apply to the University of Chicago's REU program is February 15!
Simulating the behavior of magnetic fields to understand the types of surface structures are desirable for cavity performance.
CBB is pleased to announce new PhD Alison McMillan, whose thesis is, "Surface Stability, Phonon Band Structure, and Vibrational Dynamics of the Nb(100) Surface Oxide Reconstruction"