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Hear Nobel Laureate's perspective on science and politics

By David Gonnerman '90
September 24, 2004

St. Olaf College will host Nobel Laureate -- and Northfield native -- Peter Agre on Thursday, Sept. 30 at 4 p.m. in the St. Olaf Science Center, room 280. Agre, professor of biological chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, will present "Science Policy and the 2004 Election," a 30-minute talk about the relationship between science and politics. The talk will be followed by time for Agre to field questions from the audience. The event is free and open to the public.

The event will also include a site for student voter registration since Agre will link his talk with registering students to vote.

Agre was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2003 for his laboratory's 1991 discovery of the long-sought "channels" that regulate and facilitate water molecule transport through cell membranes, a process essential to all living organisms.

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