1. M. Pokornik: 2023 Stewardship Science Academic Programs Symposium Outstanding Poster Award

1. J. Pilgram: 2022 Stewardship Science Academic Programs Symposium Outstanding Poster Award

1. CMEC Funded Paper Makes Cover of the Journal of Applied Physics

CMEC Co-I, Marc Meyer's paper “The role of pre-existing defects in shock-generated ejecta in copper” was featured on the cover of Journal of Applied Physics. Citation: R. M. Flanagan, M. A. Meyers, and S. J. Fensin. “The role of pre-existing defects in shock-generated ejecta in copper.” Journal of Applied Physics 130(7), 075101 (2021); doi.org/10.1063/5.0056581.

2. Gaia Righi, Ph.D. candidate from UC San Diego, is featured on LLNL Website

Gaia Righi, Ph.D. candidate from UC San Diego, collaborates with Hye-Sook Park and Rob Rudd from LLNL. Her advisor is Marc Meyers. The team was awarded an ACT-UP award last year for their project titled, "Dynamic Strength of Iron Under Phase Changing Conditions". (https://www.llnl.gov/news/labs-act-awards-focus-collaborative-research)

3. G. Righi: WCI Harold Brown Fellowship

4. F. Beg: 2021 IEEE Plasma Science and Applications Award

5. B. Chidester: Director’s Post Doctoral Fellowship at LANL

6. T. Kovacevic:  National Science Foundation Fellowship​

1. UC Los Angeles Collaborator, Christoph Niemann, Receives 2020 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research

Christoph Niemann, professor of physics and UCLA collaborator, has been awarded the 2020 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research. Citation: "For generating Weibel-mediated collisionless shocks in the laboratory, impacting a broad range of energetic astrophysical scenarios, plasma physics, and experiments using high energy and high power lasers conducted at basic plasma science facilities."

2. UC Los Angeles Site Lead, Warren Mori, Receives James Clerk Maxwell Prize in Plasma Physics

Warren Mori, professor of physics and UCLA site lead, has been awarded the 2020 APS Maxwell Prize for outstanding contributions to the field of plasma physics. Citation: "For leadership in and pioneering contributions to the theory and kinetic simulations of nonlinear processes in plasma-based acceleration, and relativistically intense laser and beam plasma interactions."

3. Grad Student, Shu Zhang, Wins Best Poster at SSAP Symposium

Shu Zhang, graduate student at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Center of Energy Research won one of the best poster awards at the 2020 Stewardship Science Academic Program symposium held in Washington DC from February 26-27. One hundred and twenty students presented posters. Shu’s best poster award was on his work on shock ignition of Inertial Confinement fusion with a title "Pump-Depletion Dynamics and Saturation of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Shock Ignition Relevant Experiments". He carried out his thesis work at the Omega laser at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE). Shu has been advised by Professor Beg of University of California San Diego and Dr. Mingsheng Wei of LLE.

1. University of Chicago Collaborator, Petros Tzeferacos, Receives 2019 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research

Petros Tzeferacos, professor of physics and U of C collaborator, has been awarded the 2019 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research. Citation: "For innovative experiments that demonstrate turbulent dynamo in the laboratory, establishing laboratory experiments as a component in the study of turbulent magnetized plasmas, and opening a new path to laboratory investigations of other astrophysical processes."

2. R. Flanagan: R.W. Woolley Graduate Gordon Fellow, 2019; and Henry Booker Award for Exceptional Ethical Engineering

3. S. Stewart: 2019 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

4. F. Beg: 2019 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

5. J. Pilgram: National Science Foundation Fellowship

6. R. Falcone: Elected to National Academy of Sciences