[afro-nets] Supercourse Newsletter, February 25, 2004

[Ron LaPorte <super1+@pitt.edu>]

Supercourse Newsletter, February 25, 2004
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http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/
 
Dear Friends,
 
"Thumbs up" 5 stars
Lord of the Rings: Supercourse
 
- 11 Scientific Academy Award Nominations
- Best Lecture
- Best Scientist
- Best PowerPoint
 
"Never have scientists aimed higher or achieved more" (Einstein)
 
"The Scientific Epic of our time, the one by which all others 
will be judged" (Newton)
 
"Here is an epic with Literature?s Depth and Opera?s Splendor" 
(Bronowski)
 
"Bristling with wit and Energy, A most welcome treat" (Paneth)
 
 
Playing Everywhere on Mar. 4, 2004
 
On Thursday March 4, in Room 115 GSPH, 12:00-1:00 PM University 
of Pittsburgh, the Epic Production of the "Supercourse" will be 
presented. You are all welcome to come. Ron, Faina, Mita, Soni, 
Akira, Eugene and Abed shine in fun and feisty roles. The pro-
duction of the Supercourse is good and evil locked in a violent 
showdown designed to save the world through prevention
 
You might ask...I am in Cairo... how can I see one of the year?s top 
10 lectures? Of course, it will be a lecture on the Supercourse. 
Come one, come all to the Supercourse. It will be "The Jewel in 
the crown... a triumph of epic story telling".
 
Next week, we will send you the URL to see "what?s happening" 
with the Supercourse. Please come to the GSPH Theatre to see the 
live performance.
 
 
Nobel Prize winner Baruch Blumberg:
 
I had the wonderful opportunity to talk with Dr. Blumberg who 
received his Nobel prize in the 1976. His lecture is on the web, 
and fantastic. The story by which he discovered the Australia 
Antigen and the Biology of Hepatitis B is captivating reading. 
His lecture is ideal for the Supercourse as it is a wonderful, 
captivating story of science that runs through basic research 
findings to epidemiology, to vaccination and prevention. What is 
most important about it for our mission is that his passion and 
love of science and health comes through, which I think is one 
of the main things we want to teach the students of the world. 
Also, in reading his work he talked about the sharing and dis-
tributing of reagents at NIH. It is most interesting as what was 
done with reagents is not that different than what we are doing 
with PowerPoint lectures. We hope to have the lecture available 
shortly on the Supercourse.
 
Thank you Dr. Blumberg
 
 
Stay tuned for our lecture next week?it is "heartfelt, wise, 
suspenseful and funny" as with our Supercourse team it is "full 
of excitement and colorful characters".
 
Best regards from Pittsburgh, we hope you can join us next week 
globally to see the thrilling, pulse-pounding and heart racing 
Supercourse lecture.
 
Ron, Faina, Mita, Soni, Eugene, Ezzelden, Akira, Madonna, To-
moko, Abed, Wendy, Julia
mailto:super1+@pitt.edu