The U.S. Department of Energy will fund research into a novel approach to improving efficiency of next-generation supercomputer simulations with an award to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute doctoral candidate Caitlin Joann Ross. Ross, a researcher in the lab of Chris Carothers—a Rensselaer professor and director of the Center for Computational Innovations—has won a prestigious six-month Office of Science Graduate Student…