Behind a world-leading telescope bound for Chile is a team of engineers, machinists, electronics specialists and riggers at Cornell. Meet the CLASSE staff whose expertise is helping push cosmology to new frontiers.

The CLASSE community came together last week for our annual Holiday Party, a moment to reflect on a year of scientific achievement, teamwork, and shared purpose. It was also an opportunity to recognize the people who make this work possible.

Using ultrafast electron diffraction, a Cornell-Stanford collaboration has captured how light triggers a twisting motion in atomically thin materials, revealing how lasers can dynamically reshape matter on trillionths-of-a-second timescales.