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CCMR Announces Fifth Microscopy Image Contest Winners
News :: CCMR Staff :: Feb 1, 2008
In an ongoing effort to highlight the excellent materials research taking place in shared experimental facilities on campus, the Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR) has announced nine awards for images taken recently with the Center's various microscopes and probes. A grand prize of $100 campus store gift certificate and three first place category prizes of $50 campus store gift certificates were awarded to participants along with a framed commemorative certificate. more.
Welcome New CCMR Associate Director – Jurriaan Gerretsen
News :: CCMR Staff :: Aug 20, 2007
Dr. Jurriaan Gerretsen joins the Cornell Center for Materials Research as the new Associate Director. Jurriaan brings a wealth of experience to this job while additionally serving as the Associate Director of the Center for NanoScale Systems (CNS). Prior to joining Cornell University in 2003, Jurriaan worked six years for Corning, Inc. more.
Netravali Start-Up Wins $100K Award
News :: CCMR Staff :: Apr 9, 2007
Congratulations to Professor Anil Netravali, Department of Fiber Science and Apparel Design, and Patrick Govang, President of e2e Materials! e2e Materials is the winner of the first EssentialConnections. org Emerging Business competition, sponsored by M&T Bank, New York Business Development Corporation (NYBDC), and other organizations. The award was announced on April 5 at the annual meeting of the Metropolitan Development Association of Syracuse and Central New York, held in Syracuse. more.
CCMR Announces New Microscopy Image Contest Winners
News :: CCMR Staff :: Mar 2, 2007
In an ongoing effort to highlight the excellent materials research taking place in shared experimental facilities on campus, the Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR) has announced nine awards for images taken recently with center's various microscopes and probes. Four first place prizes of fifty dollars plus a commemorative certificate were awarded to participants. Addition five honorable mention certificates were conferred. more.
New Surface Tool in Clark Materials Facility
News :: CCMR Staff :: Mar 2, 2007
CCMR has a new tool for X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) also known as Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis (ESCA). This instrument was donated to CCMR by Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY. The system is a Surface Science Instruments (SSI) model SSX-100 which utilizes monochromated Aluminum K-alpha x-rays (1486. 6 eV) to strike a sample surface. Electrons bound with lower binding energy than the x-ray energy can be ejected from the atom (XPS or Auger process). more.
Large-Format Poster Printers Available to Cornell Community
News :: CCMR Staff :: Feb 16, 2007
Two new 60-inch Kodak 1200i poster printers are now available for general use in the CCMR Computing Facility. Poster printing costs eight dollars per linear foot. The printers are located in E17 Clark Hall and 302 Thurston Hall. Registered CCMR computing users and Cornell University users with valid CIT NetIDs may both use the printers, but Cornell University users must provide a university account number when submitting a job. Printing a poster is easy. Use the web interface at http://cf. more.
New Spectrometer at Hudson Mesoscale Processing Facility
News :: CCMR Staff :: Feb 16, 2007
The Hudson Mesoscale Processing Facility is home to a new circular dichroism (CD) spectrometer that can reveal the structure of biological and synthetic polymers—from DNA to silk proteins to consumer plastics—on the nanoscale. The instrument works by shining a beam of light through the specimen, then measuring the difference in the substance’s absorption of right– and left–circularly polarized light. more.
Two New Microscopes for MOCSI
News :: CCMR Staff :: Feb 9, 2007
The Cornell Center for Materials Research has two new instruments that can image specimens ranging from DNA to nanoparticles to bone. Integrating optical microscopy with techniques that provide important complementary information, these powerful microscopes allow researchers to better understand and manipulate material structure and chemistry. more.
New CCMR Faculty Member - Richard Hennig
News :: CCMR Staff :: Feb 7, 2007
Richard Hennig joined the Cornell faculty in 2006. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Prior to joining Cornell, Dr. Hennig was a Research Scientist (2004-2006) within the Physics Department at Ohio State University. Dr. Hennig obtained his Ph. D. in Physics from Washington University (St. Louis) in 2000 and his Diplom in Physics at the Georg-August University Gottingen in 1996. Dr. more.
New CCMR Faculty Member - Sunil Bhave
News :: CCMR Staff :: Feb 7, 2007
Sunil Bhave joined the Cornell faculty in September 2004 where he serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prior to joining Cornell, Dr. Bhave obtained both his Ph. D (2004) and his B. S. (1998) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. more.
CCMR Grad Student Describes Experiences in Iraq
News :: CCMR Staff :: Jan 30, 2007
Daniel Freedman, a CCMR graduate student, spoke on January 22, 2007 to a very large crowd at Schwartz Auditorium about his experiences in the Iraq desert. Daniel, who works under Professor Tomás Arias in the Physics department, enlisted in the US Army National Guard after passing his A-exam in 2002. He was granted a military leave of absence from Cornell and was deployed for an overseas combat tour in December of 2003 where he remained mobilized throughout 2004 and into 2005. more.
MicroWorld hits the Road!
Nugget :: CCMR Staff :: Nov 8, 2006
For 10 years, rural elementary school teachers have come to Cornell to participate in MicroWorld—a one-day hands-on workshop in optical microscopy. This year, MicroWorld hit the road and traveled 200 miles to work with urban teachers in New York City. more.
Cornell Center for Materials Research to benefit from $1 million endowment gift
News :: CCMR Staff :: Aug 24, 2006
Former Cornell vice president and physics professor Robert L. Sproull and his wife, Mary, have established a significant new endowment to benefit the Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR). The $1 million gift to create the Robert L. and Mary L. Sproull Fund will provide a stable source of new funding to enhance the productivity, research capabilities, and reputation of the CCMR. more.
Welcome, Jane Earle
News :: CCMR Staff :: Aug 22, 2006
Jane Earle joins CCMR's Educational Programs Office (EPO) as the Educational Programs Coordinator. Jane is an Ithaca native who received her B. S. in Human Development from Cornell University in 2004. She then moved to New York City to pursue her M. Ed. at Bank Street College of Education, which she received in July of 2006. While in New York, she taught at the Harlem Day Charter School. more.
CCMR Announces New Microscopy Image Contest Winners
News :: CCMR Staff :: Aug 18, 2006
In an ongoing effort to highlight the excellent materials research taking place in shared experimental facilities on campus, the Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR) has announced nine awards for images taken recently with center's various microscopes and probes. Four first place prizes of fifty dollars plus a commemorative certificate were awarded, in addition five honorable mention certificates were conferred. more.
New CCMR Faculty Member - Juan Hinestroza
News :: CCMR Staff :: Mar 10, 2006
Juan Hinestroza joined the Cornell faculty in January 2006. He is an Assistant Professor in the department of Textiles and Apparel in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University. Prior to joining Cornell, Dr. Hinestroza was on the faculty at the College of Textiles of North Carolina State University. Dr. Hinestroza obtained his Ph. D. in Chemical Engineering from Tulane University in May 2002. more.
Welcome, LiLynn Graves
News :: CCMR Staff :: Jan 12, 2006
LiLynn Graves joins CCMR's staff as the graphic and web designer. Formerly of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell, she organized the student teaching labs and created the multimedia teaching modules for the Department of Clinical Sciences. Prior to that she headed the design team for the Amrion/Whole Foods Industry in Boulder, Colorado. In Colorado, LiLynn competed professionally in cross-country skiing for several years along with mountain biking and trail running. more.
Welcome New CCMR Director - Melissa Hines
News :: CCMR Staff :: Jan 11, 2006
Melissa Hines has no idea what set her on a career path towards materials science. But her desire to be a chemist has not wavered since she was seven years old. This drive has helped to propel her to leadership at an interdisciplinary research centre comprising some 100 faculty members from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. more.
New CCMR Faculty Member - Dan Luo
News :: CCMR Staff :: Feb 21, 2005
Dan Luo is an Associate Professor of Biological Engineering in the Biological and Environmental Engineering Department in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He currently is also a faculty member in the Agriculture and Biological Engineering Graduate Field and Biomedical Engineering Graduate Field. He obtained his BS degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) with an undergraduate thesis on computer simulation and received his Ph. D. more.
Surface Facility to Add New NSOM
News :: Kit Umbach :: Oct 4, 2004
The Surface Facility is expanding! Thanks to funding from the National Science Foundation's "Instrumentation for Materials Research" programand cost-sharing from CCMR and the College of Engineering, we are adding a Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscope (NSOM) with spectroscopic capability. The projects based on the NSOM involve probing the optical properties of materials and fabricated structures at dimensions that are not accessible with conventional optical microscopy. more.
CCMR's RET Week Five Update
News :: CCMR Staff :: Aug 6, 2004
The 2004 Summer Research Experience for Teachers (RET) participants spent week five of their six-week program in CCMR's Polymer Characterization Facility with facility manager Tony Condo. The five high school Chemistry and Physics teachers made and experimented with a number of polymeric materials with drastically different properties. The teachers combined polyvinyl alcohol and borate ions to create slime and Hexamethylenediamine and Adipoyl chloride to make nylon. more.
Understanding how small is nano
Nugget :: John Sinnott :: Apr 1, 2004
False color image of the 3-D profile of a segment of a patterned aluminum line on silicon taken using CCMR's phase shift microscope. The pattern is shown in the inset photo. The line was made via thermal vapor deposition, photo-lithography and etching by students in a freshman introductory nanotechnology course at Cornell. The image is also used in a high school outreach lab that teaches how resistance depends on both material and geometry. more.
Dimension 3100 Scanning Probe Microscope
Nugget :: CCMR Staff :: Sep 12, 2003
Shared surface characterization facility. This microscope provides a platform for conventional atomic force microscopy (AFM) along with a number of additional imaging techniques, including electric force microscopy (EFM), magnetic force microscopy (MFM) and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). The microscope is located in a central facility, is accessible at all hours to trained users and can be reserved via a web-based scheduling program. more.
Welcome Stephen Menasian
News :: CCMR Staff :: Aug 4, 2003
Dr. Stephen Menasian joins CCMR as the new Manager for the Ion Beam Analytical Facility. Stephen is a physicist with extensive experience in precision measurement, particle accelerators, instrumentation, rf techniques and optics. He has strong background in electronics, systems engineering, software/hardware development and unit/integration/system testing. more.
Welcome John Grazul
News :: CCMR Staff :: May 15, 2003
John Grazul joins CCMR as the new Co-Manager of the Electron & Optical Microscopy Facility. Prior to coming to Cornell, John worked at Lucent with Prof. David Muller conducting experiments in the high-resolution STEM lab, and also managed the lab's SEMs and TEMs. As an adjunct faculty member, he also taught junior/senior level courses in microscopy at New Jersey City University. From 1984-99, John was the technical supervisor of the Rutgers University microscopy facility. more.
Shared Experimental Facilities Web Scheduling
News :: CCMR Staff :: May 13, 2003
CCMR has introduced web scheduling for selected equipment in the Shared Experimental Facilities Now you can check when you have set up time in one of our facilities from the comfort of your office with the use of this system. You do not have to have an account to view the schedule, you only need one if you wish to create a booking. For more information on the Shared Experimental Facilities, use of its web scheduling, or getting an account please contact one of the Facility Managers. more.
