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Marie Curie Celebration at NEIU
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Erika Krehbiel
November 2007 (773) 442-4226
e-krehbiel@neiu.edu
Woman Scientist Ahead of her Time
140th Birth Anniversary of Marie Curie Celebrated at NEIU
Part of NEIU’s 10th Annual Polish American Heritage Celebration
**Free and open to the public
WHAT: Marie Sklodowska-Curie (1867 – 1934), a physicist and chemist of Polish upbringing is being celebrated at Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) as part of the 10th annual Polish American Heritage Celebration.
Curie was the first to win the Nobel Prize twice and was also the first female professor at the University of Paris. A pioneer in radioactivity, Curie named polonium, the first new chemical element that she discovered, after her native Poland.
EVENTS: Wednesday, November 6
Movie screening: Ronald Williams Library, 4th Floor Language Lab, 6 p.m.
· “Madame Curie” (1943, 1hr. 53 min, in English), based on the book by Eve Curie, daughter of Madame Curie. Introduction by Czeslawa Kolak, Polish language instructor, Foreign Languages and Literatures, NEIU.
Thursday, November 8
Presentations: Alumni Hall, Student Union Building, 12 – 6 p.m.
· “Marie Sklodowska-Curie – Woman Scientist Ahead of Her Time”
Ewa Kuligowska, M.D., Professor of Radiology, Boston University, School of Medicine
· “Marie Sklodowska-Curie – Woman, Wife and Mother”
Krystyna Leszynska, Ph.D., Political Science, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland
· “Marie Sklodowska-Curie Heritage in Science and Medical Practice”
Piotr Laidler, Ph.D., Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine for international affairs, Head of the School of Medicine in English, Professor and Head of the Department of Biochemistry, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
· “Work Ethics and Self-discipline of Marie Sklodowska-Curie” Jolanta Szefer, journalist and teacher at Clemente High School, Chicago
· “Marie Sklodowska-Curie in the eyes of students” Polish student presentations
Piano recital: Recital Hall, Fine Arts Center, 5 p.m.
· Michael Pecak, finalist in the 57th Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition
WHERE: Northeastern Illinois University
5500 N. St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
CONTACT: Lidia Filus, professor, mathematics, NEIU, (773) 442-5784, or l-filus@neiu.edu.
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