Meet the New Secretary of Energy Nominee: Ernie Moniz
March 4th, 2013 |
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Ernest J. Moniz, a nuclear physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who serves on Scientific American’s board of advisors, will be President Barack Obama’s pick to replace Nobel laureate Steven Chu as Secretary of Energy. While Moniz has yet to win a Nobel, he served on the President’s Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear [...]
Keep reading »What Will Steven Chu’s Energy Legacy Be?
February 1st, 2013 |
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Steven Chu will step down as Secretary of Energy at the end of this month, though he “may stay beyond that time so that I can leave the Department in the hands of the new Secretary,” he wrote in a farewell letter to Department of Energy (DoE) staff, issued February 1. Regardless, when Chu leaves [...]
Keep reading »Aiming High – Secretary Chu Leaving Energy Department
February 3rd, 2013 |
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United States Secretary of Energy Dr. Steven Chu will not serve a second term. Instead, he will leave the Forrestal building after this month’s ARPA-E Summit, giving President Obama additional time to pick his successor. Secretary Chu’s announcement officially came on Friday, with an e-mail to Department of Energy employees. In his letter, the latest outgoing member of President [...]
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