Kelvin Droegemeier is director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. (Image credit: Keegan Barber)
White House Science Advisor Kelvin Droegemeier spoke with the Stanford community about efforts at the federal level to ensure integrity, security and equity in research. The federal government wants to ensure the integrity and security of the American research enterprise, which is key to maintaining American leadership in science and technology. That's the message Kelvin Droegemeier, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), brought to Stanford on Wednesday. The event, which was sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost and Dean of Research, Kathryn Moler, featured a question-and-answer session with Stanford faculty on issues facing the scientific community including security and openness in science, integrity in research and equity in the research environment. Droegemeier, who co-chairs a newly created interagency Joint Committee on the Research Environment, talked about the group's focus on ensuring integrity in research. "The real focus is to develop policy recommendations that assure that we remain the leader in science and technology," he said. "We do lead the world in science and technology.
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