Author: Natalie Antal

The Rochester and Finger Lakes region is nearing a decision that could bring up to $160 million in federal funding over the next decade, positioning it as a national hub for optics, photonics, imaging and laser innovation. A coalition led…

Strategic Support and Investment Fast-Tracks Industry-First Solutions within New York’s Expanding, World-Class Photonics Hub Luminate NY is Supported by “Finger Lakes Forward” – The Region’s Comprehensive Strategy to Revitalize Communities and Grow the Economy Empire State Development (ESD) today announced…

The URochester-led STELLAR project is a finalist in the NSF’s Regional Innovation Engines competition. A coalition led by the University of Rochester that aims to make the Rochester, New York, and Finger Lakes region a national hub for laser science and development…

Greater Rochester Enterprise (GRE) and New York Photonics have formed a strategic alliance designed to strengthen business attraction, expansion and innovation across the Greater Rochester region’s globally recognized optics, photonics, imaging and laser (OPIL) sector.  Matt Hurlbutt GRE is the lead economic development organization for the nine-county Greater…

Leading the Laser Revolution The Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) is working on the NSF OPAL project, which will advance the frontier of ultra-high intensity laser-matter interactions. EvolvOptic is collaborating with LLE and developing fast, cost-effective solutions by leveraging Rochester’s…

Greater Rochester Enterprise · STELLAR – Tom Brown airs 9-25-25 Check out this Greater Rochester Enterprise Make Your Mark podcast to hear from Tom Brown, Professor and Director of the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester and lead…

The team’s STELLAR program advances in the National Science Foundation’s Regional Innovation Engines competition A Rochester and Finger Lakes region coalition that includes researchers from RIT has been named a finalist for the National Science Foundation’s Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines)…

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — A program at the University of Rochester has been named a finalist in a national innovation competition. STELLAR, which stands for “Science, Technology, and Engineering of Laser and Laser Applications Research,” aims to accelerate laser discovery,…

NSF announces teams that will move on to the next stage of competition under its major NSF Engines initiative, aiming to build and scale new innovation clusters to accelerate the development of critical technologies and grow regional economies nationwide The…

The National Science Foundation initiative recognizes STELLAR’s contributions to growing the region’s laser workforce. The National Science Foundation Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) program announced that a Rochester and Finger Lakes region coalition led by the University of Rochester advanced to the final stage of the…