Commencement 2007: Award-Winning Physicist Takes on Quantum Mechanics.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-8 May 2007-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Commencement 2007: Award-Winning Physicist Takes on Quantum Mechanics(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07052007 Troy, N.Y. -- Matthew Pelliccione came to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a freshman in 2003. After only four years, he is leaving with two bachelor's degrees, a master's degree, and a set of prestigious fellowships to continue studying physics at Stanford University.

Pelliccione, who will participate in Rensselaer's 201st Commencement on May 19, was raised in Ridgefield, Conn., where he graduated from Ridgefield High School. He was interested in science from a very young age, but it wasn't until high school that he was first exposed to Einstein's playground -- physics. It...