Article: The New Team

NY Times' profiles of the members of some of the key members of Obama's new team.

Makes me want to go back to school. I am especially excited for Rahm Emanuael, Dennis C. Blair, Susan E. Rice, and Steven Chu to take their posts. Curious to see how Arne Duncan, Shaun Donovan, Leon E. Panetta, Lawrence H. Summers and Hilda Solis will do.

Extremely excited that Christina Romer will be on the economics team! She taught at Cal!

Article: Obama makes pick for energy chief, sources say

President-elect Barack Obama is likely to name Steven Chu, a physicist who runs the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as his energy secretary, three Democratic officials close to the transition told CNN.

Represent.