Donahoe, who has served as the executive director of the Global Digital Policy Incubator, will take a leave of absence to serve in the newly created role at the U.S. Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy.
Physicist and scientific leader John Sarrao will become SLAC’s sixth director and succeeds X-ray scientist Chi-Chang Kao, who stepped down after 10 years in the position.
Shared resources for research and team scholarship expanded under Moler’s leadership, along with a heightened focus on research integrity and compliance.
As a young adult, Ayla Pamukçu found herself at a crossroads between college and culinary school. Thanks in part to an influential box of rocks, she chose a research path that eventually led to a career studying the inner workings of the Earth.
Years after Hurricane Katrina altered his life’s course, Elliott White Jr. set out to understand what drives coastal wetland loss as a way to help lessen harm from future climate impacts for vulnerable coastal communities.
Chris Field is an optimist about our ability to cope with climate change. “As I’ve moved forward in my career, what I see are more and more opportunities to address the challenge.”
Stanford Professor Carolyn Bertozzi was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for her development of bioorthogonal reactions, which allow scientists to explore cells and track biological processes without disrupting the normal chemistry of the cell.
