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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…

Laser Focus World magazine cover and inside pages spread across a light gray background.

LLE Featured in May 2024 Edition of Laser Focus World

Group of people cutting ceremony ribbon outside of LLE's Office and Lab Expansion building.

Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony Officially Opens LLE Office and Laboratory Expansion

A brilliant warm and sunny day made for the perfect backdrop at this past Friday’s ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, where invited officials, university personnel, scientists, staff,…

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

Rip Collins speaking at a podium in the University of Rochester's Douglas Commons building.

Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

Gilbert (Rip) Collins Elected as Fellow to AAAS

Congratulations to LLE Distinguished Scientist Gilbert (Rip) Collins on his recent election to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society and prestigious…

Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

Varchas Gopalaswamy Receives 2024 EPS–PPCF Sylvie Jacquemot Early Career Prize

Congratulations to LLE Scientist Varchas Gopalaswamy, who has recently been awarded the 2024 European Physical Society–Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion Sylvie Jacquemot Early Career Prize. This award, which honors exceptional…

Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

Matthew Cufari Awarded 2024 NNSA Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship

Matthew Cufari, a participant in LLE’s 2018 Summer High School Research Program, has been awarded the 2024 US Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship. This…

Retiree being handed an award with party attendees sitting and clapping in the background.

LLE Celebrates the Retirement of Distinguished Scientist Vladimir Glebov

Earlier this spring, LLE scientists, students, and staff gathered to celebrate the retirement of Distinguished Scientist Dr. Vladimir Glebov, whose 30-year career at the University of Rochester included 27 years…

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…