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Nobel Prize Scientist
Leads Mobile Lab Experiment In observance of Bring Your
Child to Work Day April 22, CURE and Boehringer Ingelheim
Pharmaceuticals, Inc invited the public to do science with Dr. Thomas
Steitz, the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
The new Boehringer
Ingelheim Science Quest mobile laboratory, which is designed to bring science to
elementary school children, was parked at the
South Entrance of the Capitol Building in Hartford, open for
drop-in tours from 10:00 am
– 3:00 pm.
At 11:00 am, CURE and
Boehringer Ingelheim officials, together with science
educators, business executives, government officials, and
the media, gathered in front of the vehicle for brief
remarks. Then Dr. Steitz, who had just returned to the
United States from Europe after delays due to the Icelandic
ash cloud, conducted a science experiment on
magnification with children aboard the new mobile
laboratory vehicle.
Following the vehicle
experiment, Dr. Steitz, together with Dr. James Baxter, who
is vice president of development at Boehringer Ingelheim and
a member of the CURE Board of Directors, and Paul Pescatello, president and CEO
of CURE, met with Connecticut educators to discuss factors
important in early science education.
Photos from the April 22
Event
Photos by Harold Shapiro,
Guilford, CT
Click
here to see more photos.
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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