Newsmakers FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 22, 2003 Contact: Robin Micket (860) 548-7894 State of Connecticut General Assembly Honors Rensselaer at Hartford Student for Outstanding Academic Achievement Susan Fox-Erlich and Tim Martyn at the State Capitol. HARTFORD, CONN – Susan Fox-Erlich, Ph.D., a student working toward an M.S. in Computer Science at Rensselaer at Hartford, was honored for her outstanding academic achievements during a ceremony for College Academic Day held at the State Capitol on May 7. All of the students who were recognized received an official citation from the State of Connecticut General Assembly congratulating them on their success. In addition, all of the honorees and their guests enjoyed a reception and were introduced to several members of the House and the Senate. State Representative Richard F. Roy, 119th District, was the sponsoring legislator for this event. Fox-Erlich, of Cheshire, is a full-time student, and her goal is to work in the field of Bioinformatics applying computer solutions to the analysis of information generated from the results of the recent genome sequencing projects. She has worked for many years as a research scientist in the field of Molecular Neuroendocrinology. Fox-Erlich has taken time off from her career while her children are young, to continue her education. She earned a Graduate Certificate in Bioinformatics from Rensselaer at Hartford in December 2002. Her current thesis project involves the design of a data model to represent attributes of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) data during acquisition, processing, and analysis of experiments exploring the structure and function of biomolecules. Members of the faculty of the Department of Engineering and Science at Rensselaer at Hartford working with her on the project include: Associate Professors, Timothy O. Martyn, Ed.D., and Heidi J. C. Ellis, Ph.D. Fox-Erlich has numerous ties to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She was born in Troy, New York, home of the main campus of Rensselaer, where her father, Edward A. Fox, Ph.D., was a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department from 1954 to 1983. Her mother, Sally I. Fox, was the first woman to earn a doctoral degree in biology at Rensselaer. Her sister, the late, Patricia A. Fox, was also a Rensselaer alumna, having received an M.S. in Applied Mathematics in 1979. # # #