[109] Oct. 5 'Madame Curie Speaks' at MTSU is Open to the Public

Today’s date: Oct. 4, 2011

News and Media Relations contact: Randy Weiler, 615-898-5616 or Randy.Weiler@mtsu.edu
WISTEM contact: Dr. Judith Iriarte-Gross, 615-904-8253 or jiriarte@mtsu.edu


Oct. 5 ‘Madame Curie Speaks’ at MTSU is open to public

MURFREESBORO — Marie Curie makes a rare (and first) appearance at MTSU on Wednesday, Oct. 5, being part of an interview and question-and-answer session on the 100th anniversary of the famed scientist receiving the Nobel Prize for chemistry.

The 6:30 p.m. appearance by Madame Curie, also known in local theatre circles as Lee Rennick, is open to the public and MTSU community. It will be held in the first-floor reading room area in the James E. Walker Library. A reception will follow in Room 475.

A modern-day journalist (a role played by speech and theatre Professor Kaylene Gebert) will be interviewing Curie in a sketch titled “Madame Curie Speaks,” Rennick said.

“Marie Curie will be coming from 1911, talking about her life and work,” Rennick said. Attendees can ask their own questions of Curie, who was the first woman to earn a Nobel Prize and first person to win in two categories (physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911).

Rennick is executive director of the Business Education Partnership Foundation at the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce. In this position, she runs programs for K-12 teachers and students about the application of curriculum to the work world.

In her free time, Rennick writes plays and teaches improvisation to middle- and high-school students. She has been in several community theater productions and has played “Ruthie” for the Daily News Journal’s “Ruthie Awards,” which she created, and Maude Ferguson, the first public health nurse in Rutherford County, for the 2010 opening of Middle Tennessee Medical Center.

The WISTEM (Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Center, Nashville local section of the American Chemical Society, MTSU Chemistry Society and MTSU WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) co-sponsored the event.

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Media welcomed.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has recognized MTSU for its outstanding curricular engagement, community outreach and partnerships. As MTSU celebrates its 100th anniversary, Pride, Tradition and Excellence are the cornerstones of "Tennessee’s Best"!
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