White House science adviser welcomes more agile research agencies with ‘big bold goals’ | Science
Arati Prabhakar has been part of the U.S. research establishment for 3 decades. Now, the 64-year-old applied physicist stands at its epicenter, as science adviser to President Joe Biden and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Last week, in her first extended media interview since being confirmed by the Senate on 3 October 2022, she laid out her vision for that $700-billion-a-year enterprise.
Prabhakar, whose office is in a…