2008 Distinguished Proffesor, University of Colorado at Boulder (Margaret Murnane)
2006 Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Margaret Murnane)
2006 Finalist, DAMOP Thesis Award (Oren Cohen - postdoc)
2005 Finalist, DAMOP Thesis Award (Emily Gibson - former student)
2004 National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship (Emily Gibson)
2004 Lomb Medal of the Optical Society of America (Randy Bartels - former student)
2004 Member, National Academy of Sciences (Margaret Murnane)
2004 Finalist, DAMOP Thesis Award (Randy Bartels - former student)
2004 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (Margaret Murnane)
2003 Richtmyer Memorial Lecturer of the AAPT (Margaret Murnane)
2002 NSF Graduate Fellowship (Amy Lyttle - student)
2001 DAMOP AMO Thesis Award (Tom Weinacht - postdoc)
2001 New Focus Student Research Award (Randy Bartels - graduate student)
2001 Loeb Lecturer, Harvard University (Margaret Murnane)
2001 Fellow of the American Physical Society (Margaret Murnane)
2001 Fellow of the American Physical Society (Henry Kapteyn)
2000 JILA Scientific Achievement Award (Randy Bartels and Sterling Backus)
2000 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow "Genius Award" (Margaret Murnane)
2000 LEOS Graduate Student Fellowship (Randy Bartels - graduate student)

Margaret Murnane was named Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado - the highest honor at CU for the teaching faculty. http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2008/24.html

Imaging technology: Harmonic pictures in a flash.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v449/n7162/full/449553a.html

"Lensless Soft X-Ray Microscopy System Achieves 70 nm Resolution", Photonics Spectra, pp 112 (March 2008).

Amy L. Lytle, Xiaoshi Zhang, Oren Cohen, Margaret M. Murnane and Henry C. Kapteyn, "All-Optical Quasi-Phase Matching in Extreme Nonlinear Optics", "Optics in 2007", Optics and Photonics News, pp 32 (Dec. 2007).

Research Highlights: Photoionization. Probing Break Ups, Nature Photonics, Vol. 1, pp 609 (Nov. 2007).

"Photons Team Up", Physical Review Focus story at http://focus.aps.org/story/v18/st10

N. Wagner, A. Wuest, I. Christov, T. Popmintchev, X. Zhou, M. Murnane, H. Kapteyn, "High-Order X-Ray Raman Scattering using Coherent Electrons from High Harmonic Generation", "Optics in 2006", Optics and Photonics News, pp 43 (Dec. 2006). Also featured on cover.

D. Gaudiosi, B. Reagan, T. Popmintchev, M. Grisham, M. Berril, O. Cohen, B. Walker, M. Murnane, H. Kapteyn, J. Rocca, "High harmonic generation from ions in a capillary discharge", "Optics in 2006", Optics and Photonics News, pp 44 (Dec. 2006).

G. Saathoff, L. Miaja-Avila, C. Lei, M. Aeschlimann, J. Gland, M. Murnane, H. Kapteyn, "The Laser-Assisted Photoelectric Effect From Solids", "Optics in 2006", Optics and Photonics News, pp 47 (Dec. 2006).