The Department of Energy has awarded a $637,500 grant to Aurora Pribram-Jones and Hrant to support a collaborative research program with Frank Graziani at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). This award is part of the DOE's FAIR program. This project will expand an established partnership between UC Merced and the High Energy Density Sciences (HEDS) Center at LLNL to expand recent method development work from our labs in new directions for studying the electronic properties and phase transitions of target materials along the fusion ignition pathway. The DOE's award announcement is online here.