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2012
05.04.2012:	Yen-Fu Cheng is named recipient of 2012 Helen Carr Peake Research Prize
04.27.2012:	Keith Winstein and Faraz Najafi named recipients of 2012 Claude E. Shannon Research Assistantships
04.26.2012:	The Quantum Information Science and Technology Laboratory (QISTL) opens for lab tours
04.23.2012:	RLE Staff Members David Foss, Nan Lin and Krista Van Guilder named recipients of the 2012 MIT Infinite Mile Award
02.27.2012:	Prof. Joseph A. Izatt to deliver the 2012 Hermann Anton Haus Lecture: Lecture series honoring Haus brings eminent visitors to MIT
02.01.2012:	RLE Professor Timothy Lu awarded Doherty Professorship
01.26.2012:	Three RLE films recognized for outstanding digital communication
01.12.2012:	President Obama Names MIT Scientist Mildred Dresselhaus a Winner of the Enrico Fermi Award

2011
12.19.2011:	RLE Welcomes Principal Investigator Mildred Dresselhaus
12.19.2011:	Two new members join the RLE Headquarters staff
12.05.2011:	The David H. Staelin Fund is established
11.15.2011:	Remembering David H. Staelin, 1938–2011
10.21.2011:	RLE welcomes Principal Investigator Polina O. Anikeeva
10.05.2011:	Center for Ultracold Atoms NSF Grant Renewed for Five Years
09.14.2011:	CUA researchers present invited talks at the Bose-Einstein Condensation conference in Sant Feliu, Spain
08.08.2011:	New Director of RLE Announced
05.11.2011:	Jonathan Perry, John Sun and Da Wang named recipients of 2011 Claude E. Shannon Research Assistantships
05.03.2011:	RLE Staff Members Mary Markel Murphy and Monica Pegis named recipients of the 2011 MIT Infinite Mile Award
04.01.2011:	Mr. Lih Feng Cheow, Mr. Shanqing Cai and Dr. Faisal M. Kashif Named Recipents of the 2011 Helen Carr Peake Research Prizes
02.11.2011:	Dr. Rod C. Alferness to deliver the 2011 Hermann Anton Haus Lecture: Lecture series honoring Haus brings eminent visitors to MIT
02.03.2011:	MIT and Government of Madrid launch M+Visión Consortium to accelerate biomedical imaging innovation
01.13.2011:	James G. Fujimoto Named the Recipient of the Carl Zeiss Research Award

2010
06.17.2010:	Professors Vladimir Stojanovic, Mehmet Fatih Yanik, and Martin Zwierlein named 2010 recipients of the Jonathan Allen Junior Faculty Award
05.03.2010:	Natasa Blitvic and Shirley Xiaomeng Shi named Recipients of 2010 Claude E. Shannon Research Assistantships
04.02.2010:	Yoshihisa Yamamoto to deliver the 2010 Hermann Anton Haus Lecture: Lecture series honoring Haus brings eminent visitors to MIT

2009
05.03.2009:	Five RLE Associate Professors Granted Tenure: Baldo, Berggren, Han, Voldman, and Zheng Tenured
04.27.2009:	DOE to Establish Two Energy Frontier Research Centers at MIT: new $19M Center for Excitonics to be led by Marc A. Baldo of RLE
04.16.2009:	The Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems (LEES) to be merged into the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE)
04.02.2009:	Paul B. Corkum to deliver the 2009 Hermann Anton Haus Lecture: Lecture series honoring Haus brings eminent visitors to MIT
03.31.2009:	Hansen Bow, Theodore Moallem, and Christopher Rohde Named Recipients of 2009 Peake Awards

2008
11.04.2008:	Unprecedented accuracy: RLE researchers achieve breakthrough in drift-free timing synchronization
10.14.2008:	Professors Luca Daniel and Jing Kong named 2008 recipients of the Jonathan Allen Junior Faculty Award
08.04.2008:	NSF awards $3M to MIT for a pioneering graduate training program in quantum information science: major new grant to unify MIT's strengths into an interdisciplinary doctoral study program spanning science and engineering
05.07.2008:	Four Faculty in RLE to be Promoted Medard, Adalsteinsson, Goyal and Stultz to be Promoted in July 2008
05.1.2008:	Roozbeh Ghaffari and Michael Vahey Named Recipients of 2008 Peake Research Prizes
04.29.2008:	Stephen E. Harris to deliver the 2008 Hermann Anton Haus Lecture: Lecture series honoring Haus brings eminent visitors to MIT

2007
07.12.2007:	EECS names Berggren, Goyal and Stultz to Career Development Professorships
04.11.2007:	Sasha Devore, Jianping Fu, and Darren White Named Recipients of 2007 Peake Awards
03.23.2007:	In Memorium: Professor Henry J. Zimmermann, 1916-2007
02.09.2007:	Eli Yablonovitch to deliver the 2007 Hermann Anton Haus Lecture: Lecture series honoring Haus brings eminent visitors to MIT
02.06.2007:	Professor Collin M. Stultz named 2007 recipient of the Jonathan Allen Junior Faculty Award
02.05.2007:	W. M. Keck Foundation funds major new MIT program in quantum information theory: New center seeks to revolutionize our understanding of information processing at the extreme limits posed by the laws of physics

2006
09.29.2006:	Jin-Au Kong to be awarded the Docteur Honoris Causa by the University of Nantes
09.25.2006:	New MIT Faculty Join RLE: Collin M. Stultz and Mehmet Fatih Yanik become members of RLE
06.12.2006:	Erich P. Ippen Awarded the Ives Medal of the Optical Society of America: The OSA's highest award recognizes Ippen for vision and sustained leadership in the field of optics
05.09.2006:	Yoel Fink and Rahul Sarpeshkar Awarded Tenure
04.27.2006:	James G. Fujimoto Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
04.24.2006:	Mr. David E. O'Gorman wins the Helen Carr Peake Research Prize for 2006: Ms. Radha Kalluri and Ms. Jocelyn E. Songer receive Honorable Mention
04.20.2006:	Wolfgang Ketterle and Rajeev J. Ram to be appointed Associate Directors of RLE: Two RLE professors to succeed David E. Pritchard and Jacob K. White
03.02.2006:	Vladimir Stojanovic Named 2006-2007 Doherty Assistant Professor of Ocean Utilization: Professorship Promotes Innovative Use of Marine Resources
02.21.2006:	Oppenheim Named Recipient of the 2005 IEEE Signal Processing Education Award
02.10.2006:	Professor John M. Wozencraft wins IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal
02.10.2006:	The MIT Museum Presents, "Scopes, Stationwagons and Solder: Unexpected Images from the Rad Lab and RLE Collections"
02.06.2006:	Four Faculty in RLE to be Promoted
02.03.2006:	Prof. H. Jeff Kimble of Caltech to deliver the second Hermann Anton Haus Lecture

2005
12.08.2005:	JST Funds New RLE Program Led by Isaac Chuang in Ion Trap Quantum Computing
10.07.2005:	DARPA awards $9.5M Program to Erich P. Ippen of RLE
09.15.2005:	Optical Society of America honors Marin Soljacic
04.04.2005:	Mr. Ying-Chih Wang wins the Helen Carr Peake Research Prize for 2005
01.16.2005:	New MIT Faculty Join RLE

2004
12.08.2004:	Dr. Herwig Kogelnik to deliver the first Hermann Anton Haus Lecture
09.01.2004:	New MIT Faculty Join RLE
05.11.2004:	From Sound to Sense: 50+ Years of Discoveries in Speech Communication
04.12.2004:	New MIT Center for Integrated Photonic Systems (CIPS) Launched
04.02.2004:	Ms. Irina S. Sigalovsky and Dr. Hanfeng Yuan will share the Helen Carr Peake Research Prize for 2004
01.01.2004:	RLE Establishes new MIT Scanning-Electron-Beam Lithography (SEBL) Facility

2003
07.01.2003:	David E. Pritchard Appointed Associate Director of RLE
05.22.2003:	In memoriam: Hermann A. Haus, 1925 to 2003

2002
02.28.2002:	Professor Rahul Sarpeshkar wins ONR Young Investigatror Award
02.25.2002:	Professor James G. Fujimoto Wins Rank Prize for Opto-electronics
01.10.2002:	Professors Qing Hu and Gregory W. Wornell promoted to full Professor.
01.01.2002:	Texas Instruments donates $1M to Professor Alan V. Oppenheim to promote DSP research
01.01.2002:	Dr. Donald K. Eddington wins $2M NIH award to investigate auditory prostheses

2001
12.01.2001:	Professor Jacob K. White appointed Associate Director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics.
11.01.2001:	Professor Rahul Sarpeshkar wins Packard Award
10.09.2001:	Professor Wolfgang Ketterle wins Nobel Prize
07.01.2001:	RLE Professor Gregory W. Wornell and Colleagues Win Major Award from the HP-MIT Alliance to Support Wireless Networking Research
06.06.2001:	Professor Yoel Fink and Dr. Ngai C. Wong win major $2.5M award in quantum communication from the QuIST program.
05.21.2001:	Ms. Mary E. Young and Mr. David W. Foss of RLE named 2001 MIT Infinite Miles Award recipients.
05.16.2001:	RLE Professor Erich P. Ippen named recipient of the 2001-2002 James R. Killian, Jr. Faculty Achievement Award.
05.01.2001:	RLE Professor Terry P. Orlando wins major $5.7M DURINT awards to explore quantum computation.

2000
12.13.2000:	RLE Professor Jeffrey H. Shapiro, Julius A. Stratton Professor of Electrical Engineering, named the seventh Director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics.
02.00.2000:	RLE graduate students win Lemelson Prize
01.00.2000:	RLE Professor Kenneth Stevens wins National Medal of Science

1999
12.06.1999:	Local school visits RLE's NanoStructures Laboratory
12.00.1999:	RLE's Semiconductor Laser Group led by Professor Rajeev Ram
12.00.1999:	RLE researchers demonstrate Atom Amplification

1997
09.14.1997	Jae S. Lim Co-Recipient of 1997 Emmy Award

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