The Meiosis GRCs have literally changed my research program, as well as my way of thinking. The combination of mammalian / non-mammalian participants has also created new collaborative efforts in the meiosis community.
- Terry Hassold
The Electrochemistry GRCs in Santa Barbara were seminal to me. I entered the area of electrochemical research with scant formal training, as a one year postdoc, and worked my way into a major field through GRC interactions. To be sure, the wonderful setting on the ocean transmitted a certain magic to the conferences.
- William Geiger
In the middle of the Cold War, the GRCs were truly international in flavor. I remember, long before Peristroika, having lively but friendly late evening conversations with some of our Russian colleagues over vodka and caviar on black rye bread.
- Gerald Peterson
The Composites GRC grew out of the Polymers conference and served to focus the early research in the area of structure-property relations in fiber reinforced composite materials. Many of the initial government-funded research projects in composites grew from suggestions made at the GRC.
- John L. Kardos
I remember Lars Onsager sleeping throughout a lecture, yet still asking the most informative question at the end.
- David Chandler
At the morning coffee break during the Isotopes in Biological and Chemical Sciences Gordon Conference in 1998, 80 percent of the participants did not return. It turns out they were filming a "Baywatch" episode across the street on the beach at Ventura.
- John S. Blanchard