Kent Yagi has been named a 2019 Sloan Research Fellow.  From the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Press Release:  

“Sloan Research Fellows are the best young scientists working today,” says Adam F. Falk, president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. “Sloan Fellows stand out for their creativity, for their hard work, for the importance of the issues they tackle, and the energy and innovation with which they tackle them. To be a Sloan Fellow is to be in the vanguard of twenty-first century science.”

For more, see: https://sloan.org/storage/app/media/programs/SRF/2019-SRF-Press-Release.pdf

For a nice write-up from Inside A&S , see: http://as.virginia.edu/news/astrophysicist-kent-yagi-awarded-prestigious-fellowship