On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate confirmed Dr. Asmeret Berhe as Director of the Office of Science at the U.S. Department of Energy. Berhe is a professor at UC Merced whose research is broadly focused on soil science and global change science. She earned her Ph.D. in 2006 at UC Berkeley. https://news.ucmerced.edu/news/2022/senate-confirms-berhe-federal-office-science-director
January 2019 – July 2022
