Dr. Elizabeth Grossman, staff director of the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Science Research, discusses the Science 101 presentation with Deborah Altenburg, director of federal relations at Rensselaer, and Angel Garcia, senior constellation chair in bioinformatics and biocomputation at Rensselaer.

A Science 101 briefing on the power of high-performance supercomputing drew 35 congressional staff members on Capitol Hill Nov. 14. Professor Angel Garcia, senior constellation chair in bioinformatics and biocomputation at Rensselaer, served as an invited speaker on how supercomputing is enabling new advances in molecular biology. He provided an overview and answered questions at the Science 101 briefing, sponsored by the Science Coalition to educate congressional staff on basic science and research topics.

Photo by Science Coalition/Schoenvogel

Published November 21, 2005