Marburger named Presidential Science Advisor.

On June 25, President George W. Bush announced his intention to nominate John H. (Jack) Marburger, III to be Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology, the post reserved for the President's Science Advisor. Marburger is currently the Director of the U.S. Department of Energy's

Brookhaven National Laboratory and President of Brookhaven Science Associates. He is presently on a leave of absence from the State University of New York at Stony Brook where he served as President and Professor from 1980 to 1994 and as a University Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering from 1994 to 1997.

Marburger served as the Dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California from 1976 to 1980. He has been a member of numerous professional, civic and philanthropic organizations including the Universities Research Association, the Advisory Committee to the New York State Senate Committee on Higher Education and the Board of Directors of the Museums at Stony Brook.

He is a graduate of Princeton University and received a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University.

Although a member of the Democratic Party, Marburger told the New York Times," "If there's any subject that should be bipartisan, it's science." He said he does not expect Senate confirmation hearings until September.