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Nobel Prize-Winning Biologist Paul Nurselectures on Wednesday, March 5 @ 8 pm.
British biochemist Paul Nurse has it ALL going on.
--Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his service to humanity
--Co-host of the science series on PBS’s Charlie Rose Show
-- Winner of the Nobel Prize for illuminating the process by which cells copy themselves—and furthering our understanding of growth, development, and cancer.
-- And to top everything off, Sir Paul is now officially a New Yorker! (He’s president of NYC’s prestigious Rockefeller University.)

Break out your test tubes and get ready to bust out of the winter doldrums, as Paul Nurse takes us on a whirlwind tour of life’s most basic unit: the cell.
Before and After
--Screen the special bio-video by scientist/film-maker Alexis Gambis: A Fruit Fly in New York
--Groove to science-inspired tunes
--Stick around for the Q&A
--Sample the cocktail of the night—the Night Nurse. It will fluff your pillow!
The “Secret Science Club” meets @ Union Hall, 702 Union …

The Museum History Journal is currently seeking submissions.  This new, peer-reviewed, semi-annual journal has just published its inaugural issue for Spring 2008.  Articles that appear in the first issue that may be of interest to historians of science in America include:Charlotte Porter, "Natural History Discourse and Collections: The Roles of Collectors in the Southeastern Colonies of North America"
Mary Anne Andrei, "The Duty to Conserve: The Importance of Natural History Museums as Exemplars of Conservation Ethics"William S. Walker, "John C. Ewers and the Problem of Cultural History: Displaying American Indians at the Smithsonian in the Fifties"