Five researchers from the University of California, Davis, including two from the College of Letters and Science, were listed among recipients for the inaugural awards through the U.S. Department of Energy’s, or DOE, Genesis Mission — a national program leveraging artificial intelligence to accelerate breakthroughs in energy, discovery science and national security.

At the April Astronomy on Tap event, Professor Daniel Cebra, the chair of the UC Davis Department of Physics and Astronomy, discusses how space agencies such as NASA contend with cosmic radiation when it comes to space travel and how his work as a high-energy nuclear physicist can help address these hazards.