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.
Bowen is part of a class of more than 160 science and technology (S&T) policy fellows who are working for a year in Congress or in executive-branch agencies (see story on page 27). Congressional fellows are sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and some of its member societies, and other organizations; after completion of a rigorous summer orientation session conducted by...
