Tuesday - March 30th
Tuesday - March 30th
March brings Women’s History Month and we will be recognizing a special woman each day during our announcements. Today we are recognizing:
Marie Curie
Marie Skłodowska Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. As the first of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes, she was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first and the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.
She was born in Warsaw, in what was then the Kingdom of Poland, part of the Russian Empire. She studied at Warsaw's clandestine Flying University and began her practical scientific training in Warsaw. In 1891, aged 24, she followed her elder sister Bronisława to study in Paris, where she earned her higher degrees and conducted her subsequent scientific work. In 1895 she married the French physicist Pierre Curie, and she shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with him and with the physicist Henri Becquerel for their pioneering work developing the theory of "radioactivity"—a term she coined. Marie won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of the elements polonium and radium, using techniques she invented for isolating radioactive isotopes.
Under her direction, the world's first studies were conducted into the treatment of neoplasms by the use of radioactive isotopes. In 1920 she founded the Curie Institute in Paris, and in 1932 the Curie Institute in Warsaw; both remain major centers of medical research. During World War I she developed mobile radiography units to provide X-ray services to field hospitals. She named the first chemical element she discovered polonium, after her native country.[a]
Marie Curie died in 1934, of aplastic anemia from exposure to radiation in the course of her scientific research and in the course of her radiological work at field hospitals during World War I. In addition to her Nobel Prizes, she has received numerous other honors and tributes; in 1995 she became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in Paris' Panthéon, and Poland and France declared 2011 as the Year of Marie Curie during the International Year of Chemistry.
2nd Semester Art Students:
All past and completed artwork must be taken home by Friday.
Tonight is Dining for Dollars at Chipotle! Go to the Chipotle at 7515 S. University Blvd between 5:00 pm and 9:00 pm and tell the cashier you're supporting Powell for 33% of the proceeds to be donated to our school. The code for online orders will be in a text to your families later today.
6th, 7th, and 8th-grade students. If you are interested in going out for Soccer and/or Track and Field after school, after spring break, then please make sure to visit the Powell Website' Athletic's page. There you will find a link to sign up for Track & Field and Soccer for the remainder of the year. Both events will be intramural events (no games against other schools), will start the week of April 5th, will be after school from 4:00 pm-5:00 pm, and the seasons will run through the week of May 10th. Late buses won't run until the week of April 12th, so the first week you will need to have a ride home after practice. You don't need to have any experience in either sport to participate. Please fill out the form on the PMS website as soon as possible, and also pick up a participation emergency card during your lunch this week! Both the online form and the participation card need to be completed by this Friday. We hope to see as many of you out there as we can next week! Go Pumas!