White House Science Pick Could Influence NIH Policy, Budget

An Oklahoma meteorologist has been tapped to fill a critical post in shaping White House science policy that’s been vacant for a year and a half.

President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Kelvin Droegemeier as his first science adviser, who still needs to be confirmed by the Senate. Droegemeier is currently the vice president for research and regents’ professor of meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. He’s also served on the National Science Board, a high-level science committee that advises both the president and Congress, under both the Barack Obama and George W. Bush administrations.

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