Assistant Professor Heidi Wu is the first university faculty member in Idaho to be awarded a U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Award. This highly competitive and prestigious award for junior faculty supports research critical to the nation’s leadership in science innovation.
The five-year, $750,000 award will support Wu’s scientific research on the accelerated expansion of the Universe. Using two of the Department of Energy’s major experiments/facilities, the Dark Energy Survey and the Vera Rubin Observatory, Wu’s team will study the detailed formation history of cosmic structure in order to better understand the origin of cosmic acceleration.