WASHINGTON, May 9 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Berkeley Lab's Kristin Persson Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences The Materials Project founder is among the 252 new academy members inducted this year. * Kristin Persson, a Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at UC Berkeley and faculty senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), ha  more