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Meet a
Nobel Prize Scientist April 22 in Hartford In observance of Bring Your
Child to Work Day, CURE and Boehringer Ingelheim
Pharmaceuticals, Inc cordially invite you to visit the new
BioScience Explorations mobile laboratory and meet one of
Connecticut's most distinguished scientists, Dr. Thomas
Steitz, the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
On Thursday, April 22, the
mobile laboratory, which is designed to bring science to
elementary school children, will be parked at the
South Entrance of the Capitol Building in
Hartford. It will be open for drop-in tours from 10:00 am
– 11:00 am and from 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm.
At 11:00 am, CURE and
Boehringer Ingelheim officials, together with science
educators, business executives, government officials, and
the media, will gather in front of the vehicle. Attending as
Guest of Honor will be Professor Steitz of Yale, who will
conduct a science experiment with children aboard the new mobile
laboratory vehicle.
You are invited to watch
the 11:00 am event and/or to tour the new vehicle before or
after. No RSVP is required.
The Boehringer Ingelheim
Science Quest Program
By focusing on elementary
school students, the new Boehringer Ingelheim Science Quest
program complements and expands the CURE BioScience
Explorations educational outreach service, which also
includes the CURE BioBus and CURE BioConnection programs.
Boehringer Ingelheim
Science Quest is a program of CURE Bioscience Explorations,
an educational outreach service of CURE (Connecticut United
for Research Excellence), the state bioscience organization.
For 125 years Boehringer
Ingelheim has been committed to improving the lives of
patients and their families through the discovery and
development of innovative medicines. This global
pharmaceutical company, with its U.S. headquarters in
Ridgefield, has a shared commitment with CURE to stimulate
interest in science by bringing engaging, quality science
curricula directly to students and teachers.
To learn more about the
CURE BioScience Explorations programs, including the
Boehringer Ingelheim Science Quest program, please visit our
website at http://bioscienceexplorations.org/.
You can download
a copy of our most recent annual report.
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