BDN reports on talk, visit by chair emeritus of Nobel Assembly in Medicine
The Bangor Daily News reported on a recent visit and talk by Dr. Sten Lindahl, chair emeritus of the Nobel Assembly in Medicine in Sweden. For 16 years, Lindahl was part of a team that vetted scientific findings to determine who would take home the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, according to the article. He was in Maine to deliver “Beyond Borders — a Nobel Prize Story” in Minsky Recital Hall at the University of Maine. The lecture and following reception were presented by UMaine and organized by the Anesthesia Professional Services Department of Eastern Maine Medical Center. Lindahl said he planned to speak about Alfred Nobel, the Swedish chemist and engineer who invented dynamite; the origins of the Nobel Prize; what it takes to win a Nobel Prize; and how much Nobel Prize-winning science has changed over the years — and how much it hasn’t, the article states. Ahead of his talk, Lindahl met with two young Maine scientists who recently graduated high school — Paige Brown from Bangor High School and Demetri Maxim from Gould Academy in Bethel. In March, Brown won the Intel Science Talent Search, a national competition recognizing the brightest young minds in science. After studying Bangor’s impaired streams, she developed a system to remove phosphates from polluted water, preventing algal bloom growth, which harms other life in the stream, according to the article. Brown studied water quality while participating in the NSF-EPSCoR supported Stormwater Management Research Team (SMART) program at UMaine in 2014 and 2015. “It’s fabulous, at that age, to be so mature and so deep into these defined projects,” Lindahl said after speaking with the students about their research. WABI (Channel 5) also reported on Lindahl’s visit with the students.