YI CUI, professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford and of photon science at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, will receive the DOE’s Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, which honors mid-career scientists and engineers in eight research fields. Yi Cui Cui is also a senior fellow and the director of the Precourt Institute for Energy. Award recipients will receive a medal and a $20,000 honorarium, and will be honored at a virtual ceremony broadcast from Washington, D.C., on Jan. 19. “These researchers have made significant advances and contributions across a broad range of disciplines critical to Energy Department missions,” said Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette in announcing the award. “We congratulate them on their many accomplishments and look forward to their achievements in the coming years.”