May 14, 2026

Dr. Maxwell Gregoire (LUCI 2024) and Dr. Luke A. Baldwin (LUCI 2021, 2026) receive the 2025 Air Force Research Laboratory Science and Engineering Early Career Award

Proud to celebrate two of S&T Foundations' own being honored among Air Force Research Laboratory's best.

Dec. 9, 2025

Dr. John Lyons, LUCI Fellow (Class of 2024), elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society!

This prestigious honor recognizes Dr. Lyons' exceptional contributions to understanding and designing wide-band-gap semiconductors using first-principles methods. As a physical scientist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory , his groundbreaking work on semiconductor doping and exciton fine structure is advancing the next generation of radar and high-power electronic systems.

March 10, 2025

Call for Abstracts - 2025 DoD Basic Research Conference

The 2025 DoD Basic Research Conference aims to showcase groundbreaking research, facilitate collaboration, and inform researchers about opportunities in basic research. The conference is a multi-day event featuring breakout sessions on over 15 topics. The abstract submission deadline is April 23, 2025.

Sept. 28, 2023

DOD Announces 2023 Laboratory-University Collaboration Initiative Fellows

LUCI fellows are accomplished researchers within defense laboratories who seek to collaborate with prominent DOD-funded academic researchers – either recipients of the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship or principal/co-principal investigators under the Multi-Disciplinary University Research Initiative.