A special CU Wizards show commemorating of the 150th Anniversary of the birth of Madame Curie. The show will take place in Old Main, CU Boulder's oldest building, October 28th beginning at 9:30 a.m. Marie Curie's perseverance in purifying a grain of radium from a ton of pitchblende, in part, inspired Susan Marie Frontczak to major in Engineering, where she worked for fourteen years before pursuing full time writing and acting. Since her program debuted in 2001, Susan Marie Frontczak has portrayed the life of Marie Curie over 400 times across 32 of the United States and nine foreign countries. Ms. Frontczak views both science and art as valid outlets for creativity and aims to reveal the human behind the scientist, while placing Marie Curie's life and accomplishments in a memorable historical context.