Five Years Later: Berkeley Looks at The Affordable Care Act Kathleen Sebelius, the former secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services who oversaw the passage of the Affordable Care Act, visited the campus to talk about the landmark law.
President Barack Obama Honors Berkeley Faculty Members for Scientific Contributions President Barack Obama recently named three faculty members as recipients of the National Medal of Science Award for their outstanding contributions.
J-School student wins WHCA Scholarship and meets President Obama Angela Hart, a student in the Graduate School of Journalism, was a recipient of the 2013 White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) Student Scholarship. In April, Hart attended the WHCA awards dinner in Washington D.C. and a luncheon with President Obama.
Berkeley Alumna Frances Arnold Wins National Medal of Technology and Innovation With a 1985 Berkeley chemical engineering Ph.D., Frances Arnold is now a professor at Caltech and finding ways to produce fuels that can help lower carbon dioxide emissions. Her work brought her a medal from President Barack Obama in February.
Obama nominates Arun Majumdar as U.S. Under Secretary of Energy A Berkeley-trained engineer, Arun Majumdar Ph.D. '89, is President Barack Obama's nominee to serve as U.S. Under Secretary of Energy.
Energy Secretary advances nano science in spare time Apparently the most-Berkeley person in the Obama cabinet, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu (former director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley Ph.D. '76), makes scientific contributions, and news, even while he takes it easy. "In his down time, often while flying somewhere," reported AP science writer Seth Borenstein, Chu "relaxes by tackling a scientific conundrum and stretching the limits of technology."
Two scientists, both with Berkeley graduate degrees, are now “national icons” The microphones did not pick up Barack Obama’s private words to MIT biochemist JoAnne Stubbe just before he draped the ribbon with her National Medal of Science around her neck, but his public ones were of gratitude on behalf of the American people. Minutes before, he had expressed similar sentiments about retired physicist Berni Alder.
Dr. Chu goes to Washington His full name is Steven Chu. That he’s not a very formal guy is clear from the headline from the news released by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which he currently heads — “Obama Picks Berkeley Lab Director Steve Chu for Energy Secretary.”