Science fellows craft policy on capital hill

While in graduate school at the University of Washington, particle physicist Matt Bowen attended a symposium lecture on energy policy by Nobel laureate Steven Chu. The talk inspired Bowen to pursue energy-policy issues, and he became a senior program associate for the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems at the National Academy of Sciences. This year he was selected as an American Physical Society (APS) congressional fellow and is working with Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) on energy issues. © 2007 American Institute of Physics.