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In addition to laboratory X-ray measurements that have become a staple of materials characterization, in situ and operando studies facilitated by the expansion of measurement capabilities at large synchrotron-based X-ray user facilities and neutron user facilities around the globe are becoming increasingly popular and serve to unveil deeper connections between materials structures, processing, and their functional properties The eight newly inducted TMS Fellows are Mark Asta of University of California, Berkley;Rodney Boyer of RBTi Consulting;Marc De Graef of Carnegie Mellon University, Diana Farkas of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University;Dorte Juul Jensen of Technical University of Denmark;Karl Ulrich Kainer of Institute of Materials Research of Germany;David McDowell of Georgia Institute of Technology;and Neville Moody of Sandia National Laboratory From the Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire, UK, to the Advanced Photon Source in Lemont, USA, to Elettra Sincrotrone in Trieste, Italy, to the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Pudong, China, macromolecular X-ray scientists and the synchrotron support staff are working tirelessly to understand how the virus functions and replicates, to identify the binding site of SARS-CoV-2 protease, and to expedite drug discovery through macromolecular-crystallography-based fragment screening tests of SARS-CoV-2 crystals