Recent News

IFE-STAR illustration shows a map of the continental US with select areas highlighted with neon green dots or white dots and connected by lines to illustrate an interconnected ecosystem.
Latest NewsJanuary 16, 2025

An inaugural annual conference and summer student programs will foster partnerships among academia, national labs, and the private sector.

Student in a lab coat and safety gear pipes bacteria that will eventually form bioglass microlenses.
December 13, 2024

Researchers draw inspiration from nature to create tiny, powerful microlenses for advanced image sensors.

Group of five students who work on synthetic biology projects in white lab coats sitting around a table filled with beakers and others scientific equipment.
December 3, 2024

The student-led team used synthetic biology to harness clean energy from bacteria while simultaneously capturing and storing carbon dioxide, taking home a gold medal in the process.

looping video of glacier ice melting and dripping.
September 11, 2024

A pair of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ historians are chronicling the history of the world’s glacial regions—and human responses to their rapid disappearance.

Aerial view of the River Campus and Medical Center Campus that has been posterized to illustrate campus master planning.
June 4, 2024

Faculty, staff, and students help to inform the University’s physical future.

Exterior of the Laboratory for Laser Energetics building expansion against a blue sky.
May 31, 2024

The first major addition to LLE in more than two decades includes clean room facilities to advance next-generation laser science and technologies.

student emerges from rotating cylinder as part of a fun house
April 30, 2024

From totality to Springfest and everything in between, here’s how we spent April at the 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳.

Close-up of fingers covered in tiny shards of microplastics.
April 20, 2024

The 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳-based center will let researchers to investigate the interactions between plastic pollution, the Great Lakes environment, and human health.

Andrea Tompkins Wright portrait.
March 21, 2024

The new position will lead the real estate strategy for the 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳’s on- and off-campus spaces.

March 12, 2024

The funding enables LLE’s national security efforts in inertial confinement fusion, high-energy-density physics research, and laser technology development.