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UC Merced student wins UC National Lab Fellowship for HED research

April 16, 2025
UC Merced physics PhD student Sameen Yunus has been officially awarded a University of California National Laboratory In-Residence Graduate Fellowship for her project "Achieving fast ignition with electron heating for fusion energy applications" with Dr. Ronnie Shepherd at...

Mehdi defends his PhD and is featured by Graduate Division

January 27, 2025
Md Mehdi Masud successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Electronic, Magnetic and X-ray Properties of Solids under Extreme Conditions: DFT and Beyond-DFT Approaches." Congratulations, Dr. Mehdi! His advisor is Prof. David Strubbe, and Prof. Aurora Pribram-Jones is one of his PhD...

CfHEDS collaboration meeting 2024

August 15, 2024
The CfHEDS team gathered for three days of presentations and discussions on our collaborations in research, education, and training, Aug 13-15, 2024, at the University of California Livermore Collaboration Center next to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. There were also tours of the...

Physics Today article on smartphone physics with LLNL

January 1, 2024
A Physics Today article discusses efforts by Dr. Dave Rakestraw (including with CfHEDS students) to develop and implement smartphone-based physics instructional activities. Teaching physics with phones: A game changer? Educators are creating new smartphone apps and designing new...

Dr. Frank Graziani named American Physical Society fellow

October 19, 2023
Dr. Graziani named fellow of the American Physical Society, for contributions including initiatives like CfHEDS. Frank R. Graziani [2023] Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Citation: For original theoretical and computational contributions on the frontiers of fundamental properties...

CfHEDS team meets in Livermore

October 6, 2023
The CfHEDS team gathered for two days of presentations and discussions on our collaborations in research, education, and training, Sept 28-29 2023, at the newly opened University of California Livermore Collaboration Center.   Front row: Brittany Harding, Tony Baylis, Sameen Yunus,...

Graduate Student Opportunity Program fellowship

May 16, 2023
CfHEDS PhD student Sameen Yunus has been awarded the prestigious Graduate Student Opportunity Program fellowship from UC Merced's Graduate Division, for academic year 2023-2024, to support her research on HED. Congratulations, Sameen!

Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award

May 11, 2023
CfHEDS undergraduate Maria Gamez has been given the UC Merced Department of Physics' Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award. Congratulations, Maria! She worked on the phone physics project with Dr. Dave Rakestraw from LLNL in summer 2021, co-authoring a paper in press at The Physics...

University of California awards grant to CfHEDS team

January 6, 2023
The University of California Office of the President has awarded a $1.4M grant "California Initiative for Solid-to-Plasma Dynamics for Fusion Energy" led by Prof. Strubbe, including CfHEDS team members Aurora Pribram-Jones at UC Merced, and Frank Graziani and Ronnie Shepherd at ...

Reaching a New Energy Workforce grant awarded to CfHEDS team

December 14, 2022
A project entitled "Internship program for MSI undergraduates at LaserNetUS facilities" has been funded by the Department of Energy Fusion Energy Sciences. It is led by LLNL's Dr. Félicie Albert, and involves UC Merced, Florida A&M, and Morehouse College. It is based on LaserNetUS...

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