Join Dr. Mun Y. Choi, University of Missouri President, at the 2024 President’s Distinguished Lecture featuring Dr. Harriet Kung, Acting Director of the Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy. Her lecture, titled “Science for Energy”, will discuss the 21st century’s staggering challenges for more advanced energy technologies that are abundant, clean, and sustainable. Transforming the ways we generate, supply, transmit, store, and use energy are the paramount opportunities for the world in the coming decades. This talk will provide an overview of DOE’s Office of Science, which has a mission of delivering scientific discoveries and major scientific tools to transform our understanding of nature and advance the energy, economic, and national security of the United States. This talk will also cover a key aspect of the U.S. Department of Energy portfolio in critical and emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), quantum, and microelectronics.