Exercising our Responsibility Merck Frosst fulfills its corporate responsibility in areas that it knows best, and where it can thereby do the greatest good. Similarly, the company participates in three of the federally sponsored Networks of Centres of Excellence, focused on respiratory diseases, genetic research and protein engineering. The company's mission is to improve science literacy by putting its resources to work and exposing both educators and students to its world, where science is an everyday reality. Through the Alliance, Merck Frosst has sent its scientists into classrooms, run teacher in-service workshops and set up a science education resource centre. Merck Frosst also has an extensive co-op program which provides employment for more than 75 university students a year.
Students experience research in the real world.
In addition the university students actively participate in student-visit programs at Merck Frosst. Merck Frosst also sponsors a wide array of science education programs across the country. It has sponsored Canada's International Chemistry and Physics Olympiad, Science World's Loon Lake Recreational Science Camp for elementary teachers, and Expo-Sciences, to name a few. In recognition of its efforts to promote science and careers in science, the company is the proud recipient of the 1996 Michael Smith Award for Science Promotion. While Merck Frosst's main activities are the discovery, development, manufacturing and distribution of medicines, the company also recognizes the responsibility it bears as a member of the healthcare community.