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Portrait of Maria Gatu Johnson

Maria Gatu Johnson Promoted to Principal Research Scientist

Collage of four photos from BEST program. Group photo of LLE participants and High School participants on top. Bottom shows three photos with BEST participants touring LLE and having lunch with LLE director, Chris Deeney.

LLE’s 2023 Broad Exposure to Science and Technology Research Program

The LLE BEST (Broad Exposure to Science and Technology) Research Program, created for Rochester City School District (RCSD) students and teachers, began its third year earlier this month with expanded…

Portrait of David Turnbull.

Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

David Turnbull Selected for 2023 Edouard Fabre Prize

Photo of four LLE Researchers named Optica Senior Members: Chengyong Feng, Mark Meyers, Erik Power, and Benjamin Webb.

Four LLE Researchers Named Optica Senior Members

Four researchers in the Laser and Materials Technology Division at LLE, Chengyong Feng, Mark Meyers, Erik Power, and Ben Webb, were named Senior Members of Optica. This honor recognizes their…

Riccardo Betti in front of a whiteboard covered in equations.

Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

Riccardo Betti Awarded the Blaise Pascal Medal from the European Academy of Sciences

Riccardo Betti, Chief Scientist at LLE, Robert L. McCrory Professor, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, has been awarded the European Academy of Sciences’ Blaise Pascal Medal.…

$Danae Polsin, assembling a powder x-ray diffraction image plate (PXRDIP)$

Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

Danae Polsin Receives SUNY Geneseo Outstanding Young Alum Award

Dr. Danae Polsin, scientist in the High-Energy-Density Experimental Physics Group at LLE and Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester, received the 2023 Outstanding…

David VanWey being awarded the University of Rochester Witmer Award for Distinguished Service on Wednesday, June 8, 2023. Larry Kessler on left, David VanWey in center, and Sarah Mangelsdorf on right.

Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

David VanWey Awarded Witmer Award for Distinguished Service

David VanWey, HR/Benefits Representative and Lead Analyst/Programmer at LLE was awarded the University of Rochester Witmer Award for Distinguished Service. The Witmer Award is presented to staff members whose careers…

Full portrait of Suxing Hu.

Suxing Hu Appointed Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

University of Rochester Awarded Regional Innovation Grant for STELLAR Engine Project

Photo of Alison Christopherson posing with equations on whiteboard in background.

LLE Graduate, Alison Christopherson, Elected National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow

Alison Christopherson, a 2020 graduate of the University of Rochester’s Department of Mechanical Engineering studying under Prof. Riccardo Betti and current Staff Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, was elected…

Six photos of students along the top and an image of the student expo beneath with students displaying their posters.

LLE Undergraduate Program Attends Research Expo

On Friday, April 14, six undergraduate students conducting research at LLE [Charbel El Haddad (Roman Sobolewski), Aliza Panjwani (Shuai Zhang), Nhuja Maharjan (Ken Marshall), Max Neiderbach (Christian Stoeckl), Joanna Rosenbluth…

Portraits of Jay Eastman on left and Barukh Yaakobi on right.

In Memoriam