On December 5th the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) achieved fusion ignition, a major scientific breakthrough decades in the making. Come join us to see the facility where it happened. Find more information about NIF.

This week in Another Wavelength, we chat with 4th year Ph.D. student, Maggie Kautz. Maggie is advised by Professor Laird Close at Steward Observatory.  

Professor John Koshel and Professor Yuzuru Takashima were selected for the 2023 Class of SPIE Fellows. Eighty-three total faculty were honored with this distinction for 2023.

Assistant Professor Judy Su was awarded the NSF CAREER Award, NSF's "most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization." Her proposal, "Bioinspired optical sniffer based on microtoroid resonators and science and technology convergence" is tied closely to her research on FLOWER (Frequency Locked Optical Whispering Evanescent Resonator) which can detect and distinguish ultra-low levels of a wide variety of particles.