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We are pleased to announce that LLE Scientist David Turnbull was recently selected by the Council of Representatives of the American Physical Society (APS) to become an APS Fellow. This…

A Successful Summer for the 2025 Undergraduate Education Program Launched in January 2023, LLE’s Undergraduate Education Program was created to address the critical need for workforce development highlighted by the…

BEST Program Celebrates Five Years of Inspiring STEM Futures LLE’s Broad Exposure to Science and Technology (BEST) High School Program marked its fifth year this past summer 2025. Designed to…

LLE Scientists Co-author New Publication in Optica We love seeing our scientists’ research out in the wild, and today we are pleased to feature the work of LLE scientists Dustin Froula…

Article by Katie Hilleke Selected as “Editor’s Suggestion” by Physical Review Materials We are pleased to share the news that a recent publication, “Fully thermal meta-GGA exchange correlation free-energy density…

2024 Nuclear Fusion Journal Award Recognizes Paper Co-authored by LLE Scientists LLE scientists Patrick McKenty and Stephen Craxton and two former members of the LLE High School program, Emma Garcia…

OLUG 2025 Recap: A Cornerstone of the High-Energy-Density Science Community This past month, LLE hosted the sixteenth annual Omega Laser Facility Users Group (OLUG) Workshop, and the multiday event was…

Annie Maloney, a recent University of Rochester graduate in the class of 2025 with a BS in physics and astronomy, has won the 2025 Stoddard Prize for Best Senior Thesis…

Congratulations to LLE Assistant Scientist Will Trickey and to doctoral student Victor (Yu) Zhang, whose work was recently selected for inclusion in the 2024 Physics of Plasmas Early Career Collection—the third collection…