"Science Born Again in the White House, and Not a Moment Too Soon"

"The federal government has an opportunity to do something," said physicist Steven Chu, Obama's Nobel Prize-winning choice to head the Department of Energy. "To give more money to a few universities and a couple of national labs, to a core of people who can get this done."

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/stevenchu.html