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Awards, Honors & Fellowships

Alex Chin Awarded 2026 GCCM Student and Dissertation Research Award by APS

November 4, 2025

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…

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Chirped-Pulse Amplification at 40

October 29, 2025

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…

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Awards, Honors & Fellowships

LLE Scientist David Turnbull Receives APS Fellowship

October 10, 2025

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…

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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.…

Schematic depicting the flying-focus technique using a chromatic lens.

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…

Shown is a range of experimentally relevant densities and temperatures used in DFT simulations.

Article by Katie Hilleke Selected as “Editor’s Suggestion” by Physical Review Materials

LLE recipients of the 2024 Nuclear Fusion Journal Award.

Awards, Honors & Fellowships

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…

Attendees of the 2025 OLUG Workshop at LLE.

OLUG 2025 Recap: A Cornerstone of the High-Energy-Density Science Community

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Annie Maloney Wins 2025 Stoddard Prize for Best Senior Thesis

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…

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Awards, Honors & Fellowships

LLE Scientists Included in the 2024 Physics of Plasmas Early Career Collection

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…