FORENSIC STUDY PITS GLAMOR VS. REALITY.(MAIN)

Byline: RICK KARLIN Staff writer

First it was FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully looking for alien invaders on ``The X-Files.'' Then came Gill Grissom and Catherine Willows using science to solve murders and other misdeeds on ``CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.''

Add the Sept. 11 attack, and the result is a groundswell of interest among college students seeking to study forensics and its application in solving crimes.

With that trend in mind at least two Capital Region colleges have launched courses and majors in forensic science as a crime-fighting weapon.

``We have our first batch of students,'' Sage College's spokesman Bruce Robertson …