Contact:	Katie Welch, ktwelch@unm.edu or Elaine Borrelli, eborrelli@unm.edu
April 22, 2002 UNM ‘Take Our Daughters to Work Day’ set for April 25 The University of New Mexico is hosting “Take Our Daughters to Work Day,” Thursday, April 25 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and is sponsored by the UNM Society of Women Engineers, Women in Science and School of Engineering (SOE) and the UNM Health Sciences Center The event is open to all daughters of UNM employees and students ages 8 to 12. Registration will take place from 8:30 to 8:45 a.m. at the Centennial Plaza located next to Centennial Library. Scheduled demonstrations include: Interactive and hands-on chemistry demonstrations by Dr. Dana Brabson, 9 a.m. A physics demonstration by Kahty Dimiduk, 10 a.m. A water demonstration with Civil Engineering by Dr. Julia Coonrod, 11 a.m. Lunch sponsored by SOE will be provided at noon. Dr. Dana Brabson will have a rocket launch demonstration throughout lunch. At 12:50 p.m. participants will be shuttled to north campus and arrive at the School of Medicine. Participants will be escorted to Dr. Kathryn Foucar’s Laboratory in the Basic Medical Science Building, 3rd Floor at 1:20 p.m. where a demonstration and hands-on exercise of the 10-headed microscope will be held. At 2 p.m. a BATCAVE (Basic Advanced Trauma Computer Assisted Virtual Experience) human simulation program demonstration. At 2:30 p.m. participants will be given a tour of UNM helicopter pad. At 3:30 p.m. participants will tour the Occupational Therapy Program and will participate in wheelchair races. They will also look at parasites under the microscope At 4 p.m. the girls will be escorted to the shuttle stop on the SE Corner of M Lot (by Family Practice Center and the Medical Center Library) and chaperoned until picked up by parents. For more information call 277-8716 or email sweunm@unm.edu. ###

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