Abstract
Award-winning chemist Geraldine Richmond is now the head of the US Department of Energy’s science programs. The Senate confirmed her as the DOE undersecretary for science and energy on Nov. 4. The position oversees DOE research, funding for academic investigators, and the agency’s national laboratories. Richmond is the presidential chair in science and a chemistry professor at the University of Oregon . She won the Priestley Medal—the highest honor of the American Chemical Society—in 2018 for her groundbreaking work describing the molecular properties of liquid surfaces (ACS publishes C&EN). She also received the National Medal of Science in 2016 . Richmond is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has served on the National Science Board, the governing entity of the National Science Foundation . In her new position, Richmond is in charge of the DOE’s fundamental research in basic energy sciences, biological and environmental sciences, and computational
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