2025

Congratulations to Ben Croop and Haley Kerrigan!

2021

Laser Innovations, Patents Earns Professor Rank of National Academy of Inventors Fellow

2020

Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, December, 21st, 2020

2019

LPL presents 14 presentations at the DEPS Science & Technology Symposium

LPL Senior Graduate Student Justin Cook wins $1000 Optical Materials Award

LPL exhibits at 2019 APS Plasma Science Expo in Fort Lauderdale

2018

Alex Sincore wins 2017-2018 CREOL Student of the Year Award

A paper by Danielle Reyes, Matthieu Baudelet, Martin Richardson and Shermineh Rostami Fairchild featured in Journal of Applied Physics

2017

Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair – Lecon Inaugurale

Welcome to the World – Arthur Maverick Baudelet

Fall 2017 Graduates

2016

Cheonha Jeon Wins the CREOL Student of the Year Competition

Undergraduate student Jasmine Thompson wins third place Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence

Prokhorov’s 100th Anniversary

Professor Richardson gives Andrew Main Lecture at the University of Alberta

2015

Charles Townes dies at 99

Townes Memorial

Professor Martin Richardson’s work with the Jefferson Science Fellows program featured in APS

Senior LPL graduate student CheonHa Jeon publishes IOP Lab Note

Professor Martin Richardson brings new international fiber laser program to UCF

Graduate Students Joshua Bradford and Alex Sincore receive DEPS scholarship

Martin Richardson elected Fellow of AAAS

2014

Paper by Professor Matthieu Baudelet et al. published in the Nature’s Scientific Reports

Professor Kenneth L Schepler presents keynote speech at NATO SET-210 Specialists Meeting

Townes turns 99 today

Martin Richardson to go to Washington

Article entitled “Discovering a Laser” by William Silfvast in Optics & Photonics News

Eight CREOL Professors’ achievements recognized at Founders’ Day Honors Convocation

Professor Martin Richardson elected Fellow of APS

February 13th 2014: Mrs Frances Townes – 98th Birthday

Dr. Ilya Mingareev’s paper “Post-Processing of LAM Parts with Ultrafast Lasers” featured by LIA

Professor Martin Richardson elected IEEE Fellow

2013

Martin Richardson vested with an honorary degree (Docteur Honoris Causa) of the University of Bordeaux

Ray ‘Doc’ Haynes dies suddenly at 69

Collaborator of Townes in the first demonstration of the maser dies

Professor Martin Richardson named the 2013 recipient of the SPIE Harold E. Edgerton Award

Professor Matthieu Baudelet Joins Spectroscopy’s Editorial Advisory Board

2012

Professor Martin Richardson Elected Fellow of the SPIE

Martin Richardson invited to speak on Capitol Hill about the future importance of optics and photonics

Martin Richardson Wins Pegasus Professor Award