White House Nominates EET Division Director Arun Majumdar to Post of First ARPA-E Director
Posted by Allan on September 18th, 2009Berkeley, CA — The White House announced its intention to nominate Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley engineer and scientist Arun Majumdar to become the first director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).
ARPA-E’s goals are to create technologies that have the potential to reduce the nation’s reliance on foreign energy supplies, reduce energy-related greenhouse gas emissions, and improve energy efficiency. It focuses on high-risk, high-payoff technologies that promise to transform the energy landscape.
Majumdar’s nomination must undergo Senate confirmation.
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