Franklin Orr, director of the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University, former director of the Global Climate and Energy Project at Stanford and chairman of the department of petroleum engineering, was tapped to be undersecretary for science at the Department of Energy.
Debo P. Adegbile, senior counsel at the Senate Judiciary Committee and longtime senior official at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. is the pick to be the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Department of Justice.
Marc Kastner, dean of the School of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, former head of MIT’s physics department and before that head of the school’s Physics Division of Atomic, Condensed Matter and Plasma Physics, was selected to be director of the Office of Science at the Department of Energy.