As springtime nears in Ithaca, the lab is still abuzz from the visit of US Senator Charles Schumer to CHESS. The senator came to Cornell last week to celebrate the next phase of the High Magnetic Field Facility, the recent funding for the Materials Solutions Network at CHESS, and the overall scientific importance of the lab.  

There is a full recap of the Senator’s visit below.  

As we enter CHESS's 43rd year of operations, the senator’s visit made it clear that CHESS is on a roll. We are honored to receive continued federal support of our scientific endeavors.  

Investments in CHESS not only allow us to build a world-class research infrastructure, but also enable us to develop a technical work-force of the future that reflects the full diversity of our country. I see this as a frequently overlooked strength of Cornell. 

We have a long history of providing state-of-the-art facilities for CHESS users, and we are excited for an even brighter future. Thank you for being a part of CHESS’s journey.

Joel Brock, Director, CHESS (email Joel)

On April 14th, 2022, Senator Charles Schumer visited CHESS to celebrate continued funding and the ground breaking of the new High Magnetic Field facility. Cornell President Martha Pollack, CHESS Director Joel Brock, and NY State Assemblymember Anna Kelles also spoke at the event. With recent funding from the National Science Foundation for the High-Magnetic-Field X-ray beamline, and continued federal and state support, CHESS is poised to broaden its role as an integral resource for world-class science at Cornell.

In a new paper appearing in Physical Review Letters, research co-first-authored by postdoctoral fellows Baiqing Lyu (MIT) and Alfred Zong (Berkeley) and a team lead by Prof. Nuh Gedik (MIT), claim that EuTe4 sets a new record for hysteresis in a crystalline solid.

Congratulations to Matt Miller, Principal Investigator for MSN-C.  Matt was just named the Willis H. Carrier Professor in Engineering at Cornell - effective July 1, 2022.

Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) is a one-day conference designed to stimulate participants’ interest in math and science through hands-on activities, provide female scientist role models, and foster awareness of opportunities in math and science-related careers. This year the event returned in-person and CHESS staff participated in a lab tour.

The 2022 PREM XAS Workshop was held in person from Thursday, March 31 to Friday, April 1 on the Cupey campus of Universidad Ana G. Méndez in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The goal of this workshop was to introduce the current Center for Interfacial Electrochemistry of Energy Materials (CIE2M) and High Magnetic Field (HMF) beamline students to x-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) and extended x-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) experiments.