DOE Under Secretary for Science to Address Business and Technology Leaders; Dr. Raymond L. Orbach to Discuss the President's American Competitive Initiative at Supercomputing Conference Sponsored by the Council on Competitiveness.WASHINGTON -- Dr. Raymond L. Orbach Raymond Lee Orbach is an American physicist and administrator. He currently serves as Under Secretary for Science in the United States Department of Energy. Orbach received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1956 and a Ph.D. , Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy, will address U.S. business and technology leaders gathered for a supercomputing conference sponsored by the Council on Competitiveness. Dr. Orbach is the first person appointed by the President to serve in the new office of Under Secretary for Science. E[acute accent acute accent n. A mark (´) indicating: a. that a vowel is close or tense, as é in French été. b. that a vowel or syllable has a high or rising pitch, as in Chinese or Ancient Greek. c. ]Speech by DOE Under Secretary for Science Raymond L. Orbach E[acute accent]Thursday, September 7, 12:15 p.m. E[acute accent]Ronald Reagan Building The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center and International Trade Center E[acute accent]1300 Pennsylvania Avenue Pennsylvania Avenue is a street in Washington, D.C. joining the White House and the United States Capitol. Called "America's Main Street," it is the location of official parades and processions, as well as protest marches and civilian protests. , NW, Washington DC 20004 E[acute accent]Third High Performance Computing Users Conference E[acute accent]Sponsored by the Council on Competitiveness E[acute accent]Dr. Orbach will make an announcement regarding the Department of Energy's support for new tools and techniques that advance scientific research through computational modeling. E[acute accent]Dr. Orbach was sworn in by Secretary Samuel W. Bodman as DOE's first Under Secretary for Science on June 1, 2006. President Bush nominated Orbach for the new position, created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, on December 13, 2005, and he was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate on May 26, 2006. Dr. Orbach has served as Director of the DOE Office of Science since March 2002. E[acute accent]From 1992 to 2002, Orbach served as Chancellor of the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). (UC), Riverside. He began his academic career as a postdoctoral fellow at Oxford University in 1960 and became an assistant professor of applied physics at Harvard University Harvard University, mainly at Cambridge, Mass., including Harvard College, the oldest American college. Harvard College Harvard College, originally for men, was founded in 1636 with a grant from the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. in 1961. He joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. (UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX ) two years later as an associate professor, and became a full professor in 1966. From 1982 to 1992, he served as the Provost of the College of Letters and Science at UCLA. E[acute accent]ABOUT THE COUNCIL ON COMPETITIVENESS: An organization of the top business, university and labor leaders in the United States, the Council on Competitiveness is responsible for influencing the course of American competitiveness on regional, national and global scales. The Council stands unique in its ability to anticipate and respond to changing economic conditions through a series of comprehensive programs to maintain competitiveness and security, support innovation, benchmark national competitiveness and shape public policy. The Council is available on the web at www.compete.org. For details on its National Innovation Initiative visit www.innovateamerica.org |
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