Biden nom­i­nates first woman to be top, Sen­ate-con­firmed sci­ence ad­vi­sor, re­plac­ing Er­ic Lan­der

More than four months af­ter Er­ic Lan­der, the fa­mous found­ing di­rec­tor of the Broad In­sti­tute of MIT and Har­vard, re­signed from his top White House spot af­ter bul­ly­ing staff, Pres­i­dent Joe Biden has nom­i­nat­ed Arati Prab­hakar to serve as the next di­rec­tor of the Of­fice of Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy Pol­i­cy (OSTP), which is a Sen­ate-con­firmed po­si­tion.

Prab­hakar is the first woman, im­mi­grant, or per­son of col­or nom­i­nat­ed to serve as the di­rec­tor of OSTP, and if con­firmed, she would al­so take the role of As­sis­tant to the Pres­i­dent for Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy.

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