Abstract
Award-winning chemist Geraldine Richmond is President Joe Biden’s choice to captain the US Department of Energy’s science programs. Biden is nominating biogeochemist Asmeret Asefaw Berhe to direct the agency’s Office of Science. Richmond holds the Presidential Chair in Science and is a chemistry professor at the University of Oregon. Former president Barack Obama awarded her the National Medal of Science in 2016. She won the Priestley Medal —the highest honor of the American Chemical Society—in 2018 for her groundbreaking work elucidating the molecular properties of liquid surfaces. (ACS publishes C&EN.) She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and serves on the National Science Board , the governing board of the National Science Foundation. If confirmed by the Senate, Richmond will become the DOE undersecretary for science, overseeing research and funding academic investigators. She would control programs including fundamental research in basic energy sciences, biological and environmental sciences,
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