September 21, 2016: The Honourable Anthony Garcia, Minister of Education received a courtesy call from Nobel Laureate Ei-ichi Negishi on Wednesday 21st September, 2016 at the Education Towers, St. Vincent Street, Port of Spain.
Mr. Ei-ichi Negishi was jointly awarded the Noble prize in Chemistry by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2010 for his work on palladium-catalyzed cross coupling in organic synthesis. Minister Garcia told him, “We are happy to have you and to facilitate this meeting. The teaching of Science in our Primary and Secondary Schools is something we want to keep on the front burner. Any opportunity that we have to embrace information that will assist in the teaching of science, we welcome it.”
Mr. Negishi will deliver a public lecture at the Learning Resource Centre of The University of the West Indies on Thursday 22nd September, 2016 at 5 pm on “Pursuit of Many Lofty Dreams with Eternal Optimism over Half-a-Century”. It is the first lecture for the Annual CARISCIENCE Nobel Laureate Lecture Series. CARISCIENCE is affiliated with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and jointly with the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Faculty of Science and Technology at UWI, the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) and the University of the Southern Caribbean (USC).
Also in attendance were Permanent Secretary Lenor Baptiste-Simmons; President Emeritus CARISCIENCE Professor Harold Ramkissoon; Mr. Navneet Boodhai, VP Entrepreneurship and Business Development at the University of Trinidad and Tobago; Ms. Bibi Khan, Manager of Corporate Communications and Ms. Carol-Anne Agard, Senior Executive Secretary to the Minister.
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