Inside the science classrooms of the Sweetwater Union High School District, a Nobel-prize winning discovery is infusing students with the glow of learning. This is ground-zero in an innovative partnership bringing together UCSD researchers with Sweetwater science teachers and students in a program called BioBridge.

University of California, San Diego Professor Roger Tsien, Ph.D., will share the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Osamu Shimomura of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole and Boston University School of Medicine, and Martin Chalfie of Columbia University in New York.  The scientists are being honored for the discovery of Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) and seminal work to design and create fluorescent molecules that enter cells and light up their inner workings.

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