Nobel Laureate and Berkeley Physics Professor Steven Chu has been picked to head up the Energy Department under president-elect Obama. Chu joins Berkeley economics professor Cristina Romer as a member of the new administration, who will head the White House Council of Economic Advisers.
Chu, who currently serves as director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, was prominently featured in the September/October issue of California Magazine. In the article "Start-up U" by Lisa Margonelli, Chu, who helped convince BP to invest $500 million in the University, defended the arrangement by saying: "We seek solutions. We don't seek, dare I say, science papers anymore."
According to the Berkeley NewsCenter, other Berkeley faculty who are part of Obama's transition team include: Laura Tyson, former chair of the Council of Economic Advisors under President Clinton and a professor in the Haas School of Business; Christopher Edley, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law; Robert Reich, former secretary of labor under Clinton and a professor in the Goldman School of Public Policy; Maria Echeveste, a lecturer in the law school; and Thomas Kalil, special assistant to the UC Berkeley Chancellor for Science and Technology.
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