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Summary Sentence: Join Materials Science and Engineering as they present Dr. Tejal Desai from the University of California, San Francisco.
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Steve FeldgusA Chemist Goes to Congress: Science and Scientists in the Nation’s Capital
Steve Feldgus, Senior Energy Policy Advisor, House Natural Resources Committee
Abstract
Why in the world would a scientist want to work for Congress? And what would they do once they got there? Is there a congressional chemistry lab in the Capitol used for all sorts of policy-making purposes? [Spoiler alert: No] Partly a discussion of nontraditional career options for scientists, and partly a rumination on the role and use/misuse of science in government, this talk is designed to shed some light on an all-too-often murky and poorly-understood world.
Biography
Dr. Steve Feldgus is the Senior Energy Policy Advisor for the Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee, where he specializes in energy development and mining policies on public land onshore and offshore. Dr. Feldgus has a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he specialized in computational reaction mechanisms of asymmetric organometallic catalysts, but gave all that up to become an American Association for the Advancement of Science / American Chemical Society Congressional Fellow in 2003. Since then, he’s worked in a number of Congressional offices and spent two years as a political appointee in the Department of the Interior under the Obama Administration.
