A Noble Nobel Prize

On Monday of this week, we did not have school to celebrate Martin Luther King Day.  Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Prize in 1964 not because of the war he waged against inequality to blacks, but in the way he led that struggle.

Between 1901 and 2013, there have been over 500 Nobel Prizes and Prize in Economic Sciences awarded.  In this DNA unit, we will discuss other very important Nobel Prize winners, James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine..."for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".

The blog assignment for this week is for you to find another winner of a Nobel Prize.  You can pick any of the categories of the Nobel Prize that interest you and describe one winner.  In a scholarly writing, I would like you to describe the winner or winners in one or two paragraphs.  Additionally, you should include the year that they won, what prize they won, and why they won.  This blog entry should be at least 5 sentences long and be written in a scholarly manner (include capital letters and periods).  This first blog entry is worth 10 points.  

The following link will help you...

http://www.nobelprize.org/

Be sure to put the research into your own words.  Also, pick a winner that has not been described by someone else.  I will email you if your blog entry is not acceptable.

2013: A Year in Review

Every year at the end of the year, I always look forward to the "Year in Review."  I love the photo montages in Sports Illustrated, TIME, Newsweek, Runner's World, In Style and pretty much any other magazine that I happen to flip through while waiting to check out at the grocery store.  I love the video montages that air on all of the major networks on New Year's eve.  The discoveries, the accomplishments, the tragedies, the travesties, the births, the deaths and more all completely have a hold on me.

Last week, I saw on another teacher's blog that she had her students make slide shows for the "2013 Year in Review."  What an awesome idea!  However, at this point in the semester we are both short on time and computer lab availability.  Therefore, I am going to have you submit a brief description of what one event would have to be included in "your" year in review.  The event that you choose could be important to you as an individual like your first day of being a high school student.  Additionally, if you would rather choose a local, state, national or international event, I am in support of whatever you choose as long as you can say why it is important.  Not only do I want a description of the event, but if possible, I would like you to include an image or video.  Ideally, over the break, I will have time (or if a student would like to volunteer...) to make the Mrs. Mazzuca's Honors Biology 2013 year in review.

Below is a cool video montage for 2012: