Wanzheng Hu has received a CAREER Award from the U.S. Department of Energy.

To be eligible for the DOE award, a researcher must be an untenured, tenure-track assistant or associate professor at a U.S. academic institution or a full-time employee at a DOE national laboratory. The applicant must also have received a Ph.D. within the past ten years.
DOE Early Career Research Program supports six research programs:
I. Advanced Scientific Computing Research
II. Biological and Environmental Research
III. Basic Energy Sciences
IV. Fusion Energy Sciences
V. High Energy Physics
VI. Nuclear Physics
There are 76 awardees for the DOE Early Career Program for FY 2020. University awards average around $750,000 for five years.