“Craig Mello, 2006 Nobel Prize for Medicine” exhibition opens on Faial next Friday
The “Craig Mello, 2006 Nobel Prize for Medicine” itinerant exhibition will be open in Horta on Faial, which will remain open to the public until November 5.
The official opening of this exhibition will take place at the João José da Graça Public Library and Regional Archives at 9:30 AM in a session attended by students from the Science and Technology course of the Manuel de Arriaga Secondary School.
During the event, a lecture will be made by Doctor Luísa Mota Vieira, the main genetics researcher at the Divino Espírito Santo Hospital in Ponta Delgada.
This itinerant exhibition, which can be visited on Faial from Monday to Friday between 9 AM and 7 PM on Saturdays from 9:30 AM to 12 PM, is the result Professor Craig Mello’s visit to the Azores in July 2009 at the invitation of the Presidency of the Government with the purpose of the laureate’s life and work as well as motivating the interest of young Azoreans in scientific knowledge.
The display is composed by an “exhibition kit” which includes the Medal and Certificate of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Medicine will be exhibited as well as the book containing the genealogy of the laureate, which was published by the Presidency of the Regional Government of Azores, through the Ponta Delgada Public Library and Regional Archive.
Visitors may watch the conference made by Professor Craig Mello during his stay on the island of São Miguel and may access, through interactive terminals, to web pages related to his life and scientific works.
After its presentation at the Ribeira Grande Municipal Museum, the municipality of origin of Craig Mello’s family ancestors, the exhibition has been open to the public at the Whaling Museum in Lajes do Pico, at the Santa Cruz da Graciosa Public Library and Region Archive, at the Capitães Generais Palace in Angra do Heroísmo. Following the presentation on Faial, this itinerant exhibition will travel to the remaining Azorean islands in the second half of 2010 and during the following year.
his is an initiative of the Presidency of the Government, through the Coordination of Palaces and the Regional Directorate of Culture, in a partnership with the Regional Directorates for Science, Technology and Communications, Infrastructures, Inland Transport and Education, which jointly seek to mobilise youngsters and the Azoreans so that they may become part of the spirit which this exhibition represents.