Lunch with Laureate

Who inspired you into science? Was it a teacher? A parent? A Student? Learn a little more about Nobel Laureate Peter Agre who will be participating in the USA Science and Engineering Festival's Lunch with a Laureate program where small groups of middle and high school students will get to engage in an informal conversation with a Nobel Prize winning Scientist over a brown bag lunch. One of our Laureates this year is Dr. Peter Agre. Dr. Agre was awarded the Nobel prize in 2003 along with Roderick MacKinnon for their work on channels in membranes. Here are two videos to introduce Dr. Agre…
Sometimes kids label science as being 'uncool' and even irrelevant. It is sometimes believed to be inaccessible and worse yet that scientists have no fun. Check out these videos on PCR, Polymerase Chain Reaction invented by one of our Lunch Lunch with a Laureates, Kary Mullis, I have to say differently. Aside from having a bit of fun in these clips, PCR has a lot of relevancy in many aspects of life...forensics, conservation, new biological developments and many more. Leading PCR Companies like Life Technologies and Agilent will have an exhibit at the USA Science and Engineering Festvial's…
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.~Marie Curie Unfortunately sometimes in communicating the excitement of science to those that are not in science fields we somehow lose... well the excitement. To me, a new idea births a childlike curiosity and EXCITEMENT as it takes up residence in my brain and dances around. When I have a day like that, it is exhilarating.Today was one of those days where an observation turned into an idea…