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President’s Science Adviser To Deliver Rensselaer Presidential Lecture Nov. 14
The Honorable John H. Marburger III, science adviser to President George W. Bush and director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), will deliver a lecture on “National Priorities in Science and Technology Policy,” at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Nov 14. The 11 a.m. lecture will be held in the Heffner Alumni House, and is free and open to the public.
Marburger is the first of a series of speakers coming to campus as part of Rensselaer President Shirley Ann Jackson’s Presidential Lecture program. The Presidential Lecture series will feature prominent, accomplished thinkers and leaders in contemporary science, technology, education, and public policy.
As science adviser and head of the OSTP, Marburger provides scientific and technological analysis to the President on major policies, plans, and programs of the federal government. In addition to his work with the OSTP, Marburger co-chairs the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and supports the President’s National Science and Technology Council.
Prior to his appointment to the Executive Office of the President in 2001, Marburger served as director of Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island. He served as president of the State University of New York at Stony Brook from 1980 to 1994, and in 1994 returned to the faculty at Stony Brook, teaching and conducting research in optical science as a university professor. Before joining Stony Brook, Marburger was a professor of physics and electrical engineering at the University of Southern California, where he also served as physics department chairman and dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.
Marburger received his bachelor of arts degree in physics from Princeton University and his doctorate in applied physics from Stanford University.
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