CU Boulder has been selected for six highly competitive grants totaling over $2.4 million through the United States Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission—serving as lead institution on three and collaborating partner on three.
The project leads and awards are Professor David Bortz of Applied Mathematics ($750,000); Assistant Professor Yuan Shi of Physics ($729,800); and Associate Professor Keith Ulmer of Physics ($659,157).
Also, CU Boulder faculty are co-principal investigators on three awards led by other institutions, with over $320,000 going to CU Boulder. The co-recipients and their awards include Assistant Professor Zhi Li of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, partnering with the University of Maryland ($32,740); and Professor Jamie Nagle and Associate Professor Dennis Perepelitsa, both of Physics, in partnership with Baruch College ($161,000). Perepelitsa is also a co-recipient on an award in partnership with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ($127,000).  
“These awards reflect the strength of CU Boulder’s research enterprise and our researchers’ ability to build ambitious, interdisciplinary collaborations needed to tackle some of our nation’s most important scientific challenges,” said Massimo Ruzzene, senior vice chancellor for research and innovation and dean of the institutes. “By applying advances in artificial intelligence to world-class research, our teams will help accelerate discovery in ways that will address complex challenges and benefit society.”
The awards also highlight the strength of CU Boulder’s research partnerships, which enable teams to pursue complex scientific challenges that no institution could address alone. They reflect collaborations across scientific disciplines as well as partnerships with industry, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations and universities across the country.
The scientific discovery of the awarded projects involve:
The grants represent communities of CU Boulder scientists, postdoctoral researchers and others—some of whom studied under the awardees, helped develop cutting-edge pathways and went on to national laboratories and other institutions to continue their research. 
The Genesis Mission is a historic national initiative led by the Energy Department, which is building the world’s most powerful integrated science discovery platform. By uniting government, industry, academia and philanthropy, it is accelerating breakthroughs in energy, scientific discovery and national security through a new platform that combines AI, supercomputing, quantum systems and advanced scientific instruments.
The phase-one Genesis grants were announced at and livestreamed from a Washington, D.C., summit on July 22. 
 
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