Director Kim Budil announced that the 2025 John S. Foster, Jr. Medal is awarded to Michael R. Anastasio, former director of both LLNL and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Recognition

Wei Jia Ong, an LLNL staff scientist, has been recognized as the recipient of the APS 2025 Stuart Jay Freedman Award in Experimental Nuclear Physics.

MIT Technology Review has named LLNL research scientist Xiaoxing Xia as one of its 2025 Innovators Under 35.

LLNL physicist Hye-Sook Park wins the Edward Teller Award by the American Nuclear Society.

Diana Chen, an LLNL optical engineer, has been named a Senior Member of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.

LLNL scientists and engineers earn four awards among the top 100 inventions worldwide.

LLNL physicist Cole Pruitt has been awarded the 2025 Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) Achievement Award for Early Career Researchers in theoretical nuclear physics.

At a conference held this summer, the American Association for Crystal Growth (AACG) recognized LLNL scientist Luis Zepeda-Ruiz with its Gentile Service Award.

JACS Au, an open-access journal from the American Chemical Society, has selected LLNL staff scientist Sichi Li to serve on its 2025–2026 Early Career Advisory Board.