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Nobel Prize-winning scientist to receive honorary degree

By David Gonnerman '90
March 22, 2011

Northfield native Peter Agre, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, will receive an honorary doctorate of science from St. Olaf College March 31 during a convocation ceremony in Boe Memorial Chapel. The event is open to the public and will be streamed live and archived online.

Agre, whose father taught chemistry at St. Olaf, earned the Nobel for his Johns Hopkins laboratory's discovery of the "channels" that regulate and facilitate water molecule transport through cell membranes, a process essential to all living organisms. He currently is president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the nation’s largest scientific organization, and the director of the Malaria Research Institute at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.