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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…

High School Program students inside of the OMEGA EP Laser System.

2024 Summer High School Research Program

February 12, 2024

The Laboratory for Laser Energetics announces its 35th Summer High School Research Program. Up to 16 students from Rochester-area high schools work full time for eight weeks between their junior…

Group photo of Stephen Craxton with 2023 Summer High School Research Program students.

LLE’s 34th Summer High School Research Program

September 25, 2023

LLE’s 34th Summer High School Research Program has just concluded. Sixteen high school students were given the opportunity to work with LLE’s nationally and internationally recognized scientists on real research…

Collage of four photos from BEST program. Group photo of LLE participants and High School participants on top. Bottom shows three photos with BEST participants touring LLE and having lunch with LLE director, Chris Deeney.

LLE’s 2023 Broad Exposure to Science and Technology Research Program

The LLE BEST (Broad Exposure to Science and Technology) Research Program, created for Rochester City School District (RCSD) students and teachers, began its third year earlier this month with expanded…

Photo of Alison Christopherson posing with equations on whiteboard in background.

LLE Graduate, Alison Christopherson, Elected National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow

Alison Christopherson, a 2020 graduate of the University of Rochester’s Department of Mechanical Engineering studying under Prof. Riccardo Betti and current Staff Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, was elected…

Six photos of students along the top and an image of the student expo beneath with students displaying their posters.

LLE Undergraduate Program Attends Research Expo

On Friday, April 14, six undergraduate students conducting research at LLE [Charbel El Haddad (Roman Sobolewski), Aliza Panjwani (Shuai Zhang), Nhuja Maharjan (Ken Marshall), Max Neiderbach (Christian Stoeckl), Joanna Rosenbluth…

Photo of Dillon Ramsey.

LLE Graduate Student Dillon Ramsey Awarded the Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student

The Edward Peck Curtis Awards for graduate student teaching are given to a small number of full-time graduate students who have a role in undergraduate education. LLE graduate student in…

Steve Craxton and Lindsay Browning posing in front of an OMEGA Laser System poster

LLE High School Program Alums Continue to Excel

February 27, 2023

With Bachelor’s (cum laude) and Master’s degrees from Cornell University in biomedical engineering, Lindsay Browning, an alum of the 2016 LLE Summer High School Research Program from Penfield High School,…

Group shot of BEST Research Program for high school students and teachers

UR/LLE’s Broad Exposure to Science and Technology (BEST) Research Program

November 17, 2022

To the left is a photo of Brittany Callin shaking hands with Denise Hinkel. On right is a photo of Will Trickey. In foreground is image of Brittany Callin's poster entitled Bayesian Optimization of Direct-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion Simulations.

Outstanding APS Undergraduate Poster Award to Brittany Callin

November 7, 2022

Brittany Callin, a visiting undergraduate student in LLE’s Integrated Modeling Group from the University of Colorado, won an Outstanding Undergraduate Poster Award. Brittany presented her poster entitled “Bayesian Optimization of…

LLE 2022 High School Program group photo.

LLE’s 33rd Summer High School Research Program

September 12, 2022

LLE’s 33rd Summer High School Research Program challenged 16 high school students have the opportunity to engage with nationally and internationally recognized scientists plus work with scientific data and tools…

BEST program 2022 group photo.

BEST High School Program

September 6, 2022

The LLE BEST (Broad Exposure to Science and Technology) Research Program, intended for Rochester City School District (RCSD) students and teachers, completed its second year. Many LLE mentors visited East…