Danae Polsin Receives 2026 Neil Ashcroft Early Career Award
LLE is pleased to announce that Danae Polsin, LLE Staff Scientist and URochester Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has received the American Physical Society’s 2026 Neil Ashcroft Early Career Award…
Alex Chin Awarded 2026 GCCM Student and Dissertation Research Award by APS
Congratulations to David Alex Chin, who was recently selected by the American Physical Society (APS) as the winner of the 2026 GCCM (Topical Group on Compression of Condensed Matter) Student…
Chirped-Pulse Amplification at 40
From Student Research to Global Impact This year marks the fortieth anniversary of chirped-pulse amplification (CPA), a groundbreaking laser technology first developed at LLE in the 1980s. Invented by then-graduate…
LLE Scientist David Turnbull Receives APS Fellowship
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 National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and many other government…
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 provide students and teachers from the Rochester City School…
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 and John Palastro, co-authors of a…
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 and Yujia Yang, have been recognized as co-authors of a paper…