Education Archives - Laboratory for Laser Energetics

Photo of 2025 Undergraduate Education Program students and advisors

A Successful Summer for the 2025 Undergraduate Education Program

September 22, 2025

Launched in January 2023, LLE’s Undergraduate Education Program was created to address the critical need for workforce development highlighted by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and many other government…

BEST 2025 participants.

BEST Program Celebrates Five Years of Inspiring STEM Futures

September 3, 2025

LLE’s Broad Exposure to Science and Technology (BEST) High School Program marked its fifth year this past summer 2025. Designed to provide students and teachers from the Rochester City School…

Steve Craxton, front, with participants of the 2025 Summer High School Research Program.

LLE Celebrates its 36th Annual Summer High School Research Program

August 22, 2025

The Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) recently completed its thirty-sixth Summer High School Research Program, an eight-week experience that brings Rochester-area rising seniors into the lab for full-time, hands-on research.…

Photo portrait of Kaan Aytekin.

Kaan Aytekin Receives APS Outstanding Student Poster Award

October 30, 2024

Kaan Aytekin, a junior at the Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences at the University of Rochester and a member of LLE’s Undergraduate Education Program, has just won an…

Group photo of BEST students (top) and High school students program (bottom).

A Summer of Science for Rochester-Area High School Students

August 30, 2024

Congratulations to the students who dedicated their time to gaining invaluable hands-on experience in the fields of science and technology. Through the BEST (Broad Exposure to Science and Technology) and…

Eddy Wu standing by his scientific poster at a conference booth.

Pittsford Sutherland Graduate Eddy Wu Receives ISEF Award

Congratulations to recent Pittsford Sutherland High School graduate Eddy Wu, who attended the week-long Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Los Angeles this past May, together with winners…

Segev BenZvi shakes hands with award winners Hunter Markland and Md Reshad Rahman, each holding their wards.

Hunter Markland Awarded 2024 Susumu Okubo Prize

Congratulations to University of Rochester graduate student and LLE Horton Fellow Hunter Markland, who received the prestigious Susumu Okubo Prize at the 2024 Department of Physics & Astronomy commencement ceremony…

Group photograph of Neel Kabadi, Mokin Lee, Edban Watt, Alex Kulvivat, Julie Hernandez, and Adam Cummings on the East Lobby staircase, a colorful illustration with an image of a diagnostic.

New Diagnostic Platform for OMEGA EP Established by Team of Undergraduate Students

A team of five undergraduate seniors from the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Rochester performed the design and fabrication of original parts needed for the BBReflect-EP shot day…

Portrait of Julia Kubes at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics.

Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Julia Kubes Inducted into Tau Beta Pi Honor Society

Photo of Declan Walden.

Declan Walden Selected for CLEO 2024 Post-Deadline Session

Group photo of students in front of the National Ignition Facility with a border around it showing the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of Rochester, and LLE logos and University of Rochester: March 11, 2024.

Inaugural National Lab Trip for Students in LLE’s Undergraduate Education Program

Gregory Demos where protective eyewear adjusting equipment on a light table.

Paper by LLE Summer High School Research Program Student Published in Optical Engineering

A paper by lead author Gregory S. Demos titled “Laser-damage performance of gallium-alloy liquid metal mirrors” has just been published in the journal Optical Engineering. Gregory, currently a senior at…