Archived News
7/15/23 - Congratulations to Mason Holley who graduated with a MS thesis degree in Summer 2023.
5/15/23 - Congratulations to Jack Huang who graduated with a MS thesis degree, and to Frank Sheng and Megan Chung who graduated with BS thesis degrees in Spring 2023.
3/29/23 - Congratulations to Alexander Littlefield and his colleagues on their recent paper titled "Enabling High Precision Gradient Index Control in Subsurface Multiphoton Lithography" featured as the cover article in ACS Photonics.
12/15/22 - Congratulations to Frank Sheng who graduated with a BS thesis degree in Fall 2022.
5/15/22 - Congratulations to Lonna Edwards who graduated with a PhD thesis degree in Spring 2022.
12/15/21 - Congratulations to Alexander Littlefield who graduated with a MS thesis degree, and Xizheng Fang who graduate with a BS thesis degree in Fall 2021.
5/15/21 - Congratulations to Andrea Perry and Liam Ackerman who graduated with a BS thesis degree in Spring 2021.
11/30/20 - Congratulations to Shaneen Braswell who graduated with a PhD thesis degree in Fall 2020.
11/18/20 - Congratulations to Dr. Jinlong Zhu who began a faculty position at Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
7/15/20 - Congratulations to Aditi Udupa who graduated with a PhD thesis degree in Summer 2020.
5/15/20 - Congratulations to Alexander Littlefield who graduated with a BS thesis degree in Spring 2020.
1/4/20 - Prof. Goddard is named OSA Fellow, for contributions to the field of optical measurement science.
12/1/19 - Prof. Goddard is named Founding Director of the Institute for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access.
5/15/19 - Congratulations to Sanyogita Purandare who graduated with a PhD thesis degree.
3/12/19 - NSF awards 3-year $1.2M grant for new STEM initiative to impact 1,000 middle and high school students in Illinois. See the press release, News Gazette article, and WCIA TV interview.
2/5/19 - Congratulations to Aditi Udupa who passed the PhD prelim exam.
1/6/19 - Prof. Goddard is named Fellow of the SPIE, for achievements in optical inspection and metrology.
12/19/18 - Congratulations to Joshua Lewis who graduated with a BS thesis degree in Fall 2018.
9/10/18 - Congratulations to Shaneen Braswell who passed the PhD prelim exam.
8/16/18 - Prof. Goddard is named University Scholar and also Associate in the Center for Advanced Study.
5/12/18 - Congratulations to Arunita Kar who graduated with an MS thesis degree and to Kaidong Peng and Lucas Cohen who graduated with BS thesis degrees in Spring 2018.
11/28/17 - Congratulations to Sanyogita Purandare who passed the PhD prelim exam.
8/19/17 - Congratulations to Lisa Plucinski Hackett who graduated with a PhD degree in Summer 2017.
8/16/17 - Prof. Goddard is promoted to full Professor.
5/13/17 - Congratulations to Aditi Udupa who graduated with an MS thesis degree and to Michael Bazzoli who graduated with a BS thesis degree in Spring 2017.
12/17/16 - Congratulations to Lonna Edwards who graduated with an MS thesis degree in Fall 2016.
10/13/16 - Congratulations to Lisa Plucinski Hackett who passed the PhD prelim exam.
10/4/16 - Prof. Goddard is awarded the Larine Y. Cowan Make a Difference Award for Leadership in Diversity.
8/31/16 - NSF awards 5-year grant for the Academic Redshirt in Science and Engineering (ARISE) program. College of Engineering article.
5/14/16 - Congratulations to Steve McKeown who graduated with a PhD degree and to Woraprach Kusolthossakul who graduated with a BS thesis degree in Spring 2016.
8/15/15 - Congratulations to Onyeama Osuagwu who graduated with a PhD degree in Summer 2015.
5/22/15 - Congratulations to Steve McKeown who passed the PhD prelim exam.
12/20/14 - Congratulations to Chris Edwards and Renjie Zhou who graduated with PhD degrees and to Kaiyuan Wang who graduated with an MS thesis degree in Fall 2014.
12/13/14 - Congratulations to Onyeama Osuagwu who passed the PhD prelim exam.
5/20/14 - Congratulations to Manan Raval and Yu Yan who graduated with BS thesis degrees in Spring 2014.
1/30/14 - Congratulations to Renjie Zhou who passed the PhD prelim exam.
8/16/13 - Prof. Goddard is promoted to Associate Professor with indefinite tenure.
8/15/13 - Congratulations to Amir Arbabi who graduated with a PhD degree in Summer 2013.
5/12/13 - Congratulations to Ben Griffin and Young Mo Kang who graduated with a PhD degree and to Kaiyuan Wang and Jerry Zhou who graduated with a BS thesis degree in Spring 2013.
1/30/13 - Congratulations to Chris Edwards who passed the PhD prelim exam.
10/10/12 - The free e-book Harnessing Energy (422MB) is published.
9/28/12 - Our article in Nature's Light: Science and Applications journal has been published. Learn more about the project by reading NSF's press release, Illinois' press release, or seeing the YouTube video.
5/15/12 - Congratulations to Zaichen Chen who graduated with a BS thesis degree in Spring 2012.
4/17/12 - Congratulations to Amir Arbabi who passed the PhD prelim exam.
12/16/11 - Congratulations to Steve McKeown who graduated with a MS thesis degree and to Josephine Lu who graduated with a BS thesis degree in Fall 2011.
11/28/11 - Congratulations to Ben Griffin and Young Mo Kang who passed the PhD prelim exam.
8/11/11 - Congratulations to Freddy Cheu who graduated with a BS thesis degree in Summer 2011.
5/8/11 - Congratulations to Jared Carter and Gautam Shine who graduated with BS thesis degrees in Spring 2011.
3/01/11 - Prof. Goddard receives an NSF CAREER award for "Theory and Application of Reflective Microring Resonators." Award Abstract
2/19/11 - Dr. Goddard receives the inaugural AAAS Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science. Meeting News
2/17/11 - ILX LIGHTWAVE donates laser diode control instruments worth $10,000 to Prof. Goddard and the University of Illinois. Press Release
5/16/10 - Congratulations to Young Mo Kang and Ben Griffin who graduated with MS thesis degrees and to Aaron King and Daniel Chang who graduated with BS thesis degrees in Spring 2010.
7/09/09 - Assistant Professor Lynford Goddard receives the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) nominated by the Department of Energy. Press Release
5/17/09 - Congratulations to Akash Garg and Michael Guh who graduated with BS thesis degrees in Spring semester 2009.
1/15/09 - Congratulations to Kai Yeen Wong who graduated with an MS thesis degree Fall semester 2008.
6/23/08 - Welcome to our newly launched group website.
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