For years, industrial sites that once fueled the city’s economy have sat idle and deteriorating in and around residential areas. Now, the brownfields are presenting an opportunity for residents to re-invent their neighborhoods.
Linda McGown, far right, head of chemistry and chemical biology at RPI, talks Monday morning to, from left, U.S. Rep.-elect Paul Tonko, RPI student Junfeng Xiao and college President Shirley Ann Jackson about prebiotic routes to RNA on the early Earth and Mars during the opening of the New York Center for Astrobiology on the college's Troy campus.
