Former U.S. Under Secretary for Science Raymond Orbach to speak about energy security at the U of M on Feb. 24

Contacts: Ryan Mathre, University News Service, mathre@umn.edu, (612) 625-0552
Jenny Allan, School of Physics and Astronomy, jenny@physics.umn.edu, (612) 624-2852
Rhonda Zurn, Institute of Technology, rzurn@umn.edu, (612) 626-7959

“Energy Security: From Deal Killers to Game Changers” is the title of an upcoming talk by former U.S. Department of Energy Under Secretary for Science Raymond Orbach at 3:35 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24, at the University of Minnesota’s Tate Laboratory of Physics, Room 131, 116 Church St. S.E., Minneapolis.

The talk, sponsored by the University’s School of Physics and Astronomy, will address five energy security “deal killers.” Orbach will discuss the way in which basic research can transform these “deal killers” into “game changers” to provide possible solutions for our country’s future energy security.

The lecture is free and open to the public. Public parking is available in the Church Street Garage, 80 Church St. S.E., Minneapolis, which is near the Tate Laboratory of Physics.

Orbach is currently Director of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. He formerly was the nation’s first Under Secretary for Science, a high-ranking position within the U.S. Department of Energy. In that role, he served as an advisor to the Department of Energy Secretary on science policy as well as all scientific aspects of the department, including basic and applied research ranging from nuclear energy to environmental clean-up of Cold War legacy sites to defense programs.

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The School of Physics and Astronomy is a unit of the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology, the University’s college of science and engineering.