A new grant from the NASA Exobiology & Evolutionary Biology Program is featured in the September 2010 issue of the Inside Rensselaer magazine. The grant will enable us to expand our search for prebiotic molecules in regions of interstellar clouds where stars and planetary systems are being formed. The research will be a collaboration between the New York Center for Astrobiology and groups at NASA Ames Research Center, the Ohio State University, and the University of Missouri – St. Louis.