Mikayla Barry has been awarded the ALS Doctoral Fellowship in Residence for the 2019-20 academic year. Mikayla is a Ph.D. student in Professor Rachel Segalman’s Group at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
The Advanced Light Source (ALS), a division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is a national user facility that generates intense x-ray radiation for scientific and technological research. As the United States’ first third-generation synchrotron radiation source, the ALS offers outstanding performance in the vacuum ultraviolet to soft x-ray energy range and excellent performance in the infrared and hard x-ray regions. The facility welcomes researchers from universities, industry, and government laboratories around the world. The ALS is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences program.