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SafeZone Initiative speaker presenting in the LLE Coliseum.

LLE Pride hosts Trans Allyship Seminar

January 29, 2024

On Monday, January 8th, LLE Pride hosted a Trans Allyship seminar with speakers Kayden Miller and Lori Cramer from the SafeZone Initiative. The SafeZone Initiative is a locally owned and…

Photo of Terrance Kessler with equations on a whiteboard in background.

Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

Terrance Kessler Elected Optica Fellow

January 8, 2024

Dustin Froula speaking with a reporter next to the LLE Contributions to Ignition plaque.

LLE Featured on News 10NBC

January 1, 2024

Scientist Jeremy Pigeon installing a radial echelon by inserting a metal part into a system in front of a blue-lit background.

Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

Jeremy Pigeon Awarded Young Investigator Research Program Grant

December 28, 2023

Jeremy Pigeon, a Scientist in the Plasma & Ultrafast Laser Science & Engineering Division, has been awarded a 2024 Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) grant, which spans three years with…

Image of Cooperative Agreement publication on a background of a blue target shot.

LLE Cooperative Agreement Renewed with U.S. Department of Energy

December 13, 2023

Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

$10 Million in Funding Secured for New Inertial Fusion Energy Consortium

December 7, 2023

Group photo holding framed awards in front of the OMEGA airbrush illustration.

Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

2023 Capt. Loucks Recognition Awards

December 4, 2023

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LLE Featured in New Viral Video

November 16, 2023

The Center for Matter at Atomic Pressures produced a video showing how matter in the universe exists outside of the surface of the earth. Inside planets and stars, the crushing…

David Turnbull accepting an award at a podium labeled with APS Division of Plasma Physics.

Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

David Turnbull Receives 2023 Thomas H. Stix Award for Outstanding Early Career Contributions to Plasma Physics Research

November 6, 2023

David Turnbull has received the 2023 Thomas H. Stix Award for his outstanding contributions in pioneering experiments on plasma photonics and laser–plasma instability. Demonstrating exceptional scientific leadership, Turnbull has developed…

NSF Funds Design of World-Leading NSF-OPAL Laser Facility

September 25, 2023

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…

The PEPC being loaded into a high power laser system.

Sydor Technologies Receives Grant for Developing Plasma Electrode Pockels Cells for Inertial Fusion Facilities

September 11, 2023

Rochester-based Sydor Technologies has been awarded a $200,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to work with the LLE to assess the commercial feasibility…