Anthony and Filomena Fiacco never dreamed when they planted a blue spruce in their front yard nearly 30 years ago that the tree would someday be on display in Albany as an official state holiday tree.
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.
