Houghton University Digital Archives
The Houghton University Archives serves the students, faculty, staff, administration and alumni of Houghton University by collecting and maintaining a historical record of the University story. The Archives collects, organizes, preserves, and makes accessible materials critical to understanding the historic, present, and future mission of Houghton University and to nurturing identity, purpose, and unity in the University community. This DSpace site provides access to some of the Houghton University's digital collections.
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- The annually published yearbook from 1924.
- Recordings of sermons and lectures given at Houghton University
- Programs of performances of faculty and students recitals.
- Theses of undergraduate students
- The magazine for alumni and friends of Houghton University.
Recent Submissions
Item type:Item, Initial Test of the Ten-Inch Manipulator-Based Short Lived Isotope Counting System(Houghton University, 2025-11-21) Bo, Andrew; Vara, Dante; Plymale, Samuel; Yuly, Mark; Freeman, Charles; Marcus, George; Padalino, Stephen J.; Forrest, Chad J.; Schwemmlein, Arnold; Stanley, Ben; Stoeckl, Christian; Gastis, PanosThe Short-Lived Isotope Counting System ( is designed to measure cross sections for astrophysically relevant light ion reactions and energies The dE-E phoswich detector telescope, which identifies beta particles from decaying 20 ms to 20 s half-life reaction product nuclei, has been redesigned to fit in a Ten Inch Manipulator ( for insertion in the OMEGA-60 and OMEGA-EP target chambers at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics In the first test of the new design, 8 Li decays were detected after the 7 Li(d,p) 8 Li reaction was triggered by a pulse of OMEGA-EP target normal sheath acceleration ( deuterons This poster presents a description of the new design and preliminary test results This material is based upon work supported by the Department of Energy [National Nuclear Security Administration] University of Rochester “National Inertial Confinement Fusion Program” under Award Number(s) DE NA 000414467th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Nov. 17-21, 2025Item type:Item, Measurement of deuteron- and proton-induced lithium reaction cross sections for SLICS detector efficiency calibration(Houghton University, 2025-11-21) Vara, Dante; Bo, Andrew; Plymale, Samuel; Yuly, Mark; Woods, Michelle; Richardson, Silas; Desiderio, Chris; Freeman, Charles; Marcus, George; Padalino, Stephen J.; Forrest, Chad J.; Schwemmlein, Arnold; Stanley, BenThe Short-Lived Isotope Counting System (SLICS) was developed identify and count beta decays of product nuclei produced by light-ion reactions generated with high-power short-pulse lasers using inertial confinement fusion (ICF) or target normal sheath acceleration (TNSA). An experiment was performed in 2024 to measure the efficiency of this detector by creating a known amount of 8Li at a point in front of the detector, then counting the resulting number of detected beta decays. Unfortunately, previous measurements of the 7Li(d, p)8Li, 7Li(p, α)4He, and 6Li(d, α)4He cross sections needed to predict the amount of 8Li vary widely. To address this problem, an experiment was carried out using the SUNY Geneseo Pelletron in which 1.1 MeV, 1.3 MeV and 1.5 MeV protons and deuterons were incident on a self-supporting 116 nm thick gold foil coated with thin layer of natural lithium. The elastic scattering from the gold, 6Li and 7Li yielded the beam current, and 6Li and 7Li thickness, respectively. Measurement of charged particle energy spectra at angles of 40, 60, 90, 120, 140, 160, and 166 allowed the relevant cross sections to be determined. This material is based upon work supported by the Department of Energy [National Nuclear Security Administration] University of Rochester “National Inertial Confinement Fusion Program” under Award Number(s) DE-NA0004144.67th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Nov. 17-21, 2025Item type:Item, STAR_v122,09_November-21-2025(Houghton University, 2025-11-21) Houghton StarItem type:Item, STAR_v122,08_November-14-2025(Houghton University, 2025-11-14) Houghton StarItem type:Item, Pachelbel - Canon in D(Houghton University, 2025-11-11) Test, Test