Employee and Community Engagement

At MilliporeSigma, we look for opportunities to use employee and community engagement to spark scientific curiosity and breakthroughs. We know that not all people have access to the advancements in public health that have come through innovations in life science. We also know that tomorrow’s innovations depend on the next generation of scientific explorers. This is why we focus our community engagement in two primary areas: supporting today’s scientists to accelerate access to health through scientific research and inspiring curiosity in the next generation of scientists through science education.

Our community engagement efforts include SPARK—a global, skills-based volunteer program that allows MilliporeSigma employees to leverage their diverse talents, skills and experiences to give back to the communities in which they live and work. We also created the Curiosity Labs™ program to bring the expertise of our employees and access to hands-on, interactive science lessons to classrooms around the world.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

2019 Founder’s Award: MilliporeSigma
At Positively Instrumental 2019, we presented Founders Awards to honor two companies dedicated to working together to advance global science in the spirit of our founder, Dr.Nina Dudnik.

Education

Science Experiments Inside the Curiosity Cube
WMTV covered MilliporeSigma's Curiosity Cube at the Henry Vilas Zoo in Madison.

Education

2019 Edition of "Curiosity Cube" Gives Students Hands-On Experience With Stem
MilliporeSigma's Curiosity Cube® mobile science lab recently visited the State College area. Check it out on WTAJ.com.

Education

Curiosity Cube Teaches Science to ConVal Students
Elementary and middle school students from the ConVal School District spent Thursday in a brightly colored shipping container conducting science experiments. The container – known as the Curiosity Cube – has been retrofitted by MilliporeSigma into a mobile science lab.

Education

Increasing STEM Access and Changing Perceptions
Sometimes ideas are hatched and shared in the most fortuitous places — and you don’t even know it. It all began when one of my team members and I were at our first Global Communicators Conference in Wiesbaden, Germany, following the acquisition of the company that we had been working for. It was an awe-inspiring experience, mainly because our new company — Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany — was launching a completely new brand and this was one of the first internal events to showcase the new look, feel and messaging. In light of this new approach, we formed teams to come up with new ideas that supported our new brand. Daniel Sherling, the auteur of this novel concept, shared his concept of creating a mobile science lab out of a shipping container that could address the need we saw around acc

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

It Takes Focus to Grow and Maintain a Company Culture
I spend a lot of my time thinking about corporate culture. Since we grew the life science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany in 2015, through the acquisition of Sigma-Aldrich, we’ve been navigating that interesting space of culture creation. You’ve got the established culture of the acquiring company and then you’ve got the established culture of the acquiree. How are those two things supposed to automatically mesh or even mesh after several years?

Education

MilliporeSigma Brings Science Education to Students Across North America With Curiosity Cube® Mobile Science Lab
The Curiosity Cube® mobile science lab is a 22x15-foot retrofitted shipping container that features interactive, hands-on science experiments designed to prime students for STEM careers. This year’s experiments will take STEM learning to a new level —celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Periodic Table of Elements.

Social Impact & Volunteering

SPARK Continues to Ignite a Passion for Science Around the World
From Europe and Asia to the Americas, MilliporeSigma employees gave back to their local communities in more ways than one during SPARK Week, October 13-21, 2018. Not only did they teach Curiosity Labs™ lessons and host site tours, but they also brought science education to a low-income village and an orphanage, impacting thousands of students by providing them with hands-on experiments to spark their curiosity in science.

Education

How We Use a Shipping Container to Spark Scientific Curiosity
"How can students get excited about science if they don't have access to the resources?" asks science education promoter Daniel Sherling. Answer? Bring the fun science to schools — with a mobile science lab meant to encourage engaged, dynamic learning!

Education

Curiosity Cube™ Mobile Science Lab Completes 2018 Tour
From San Diego to Rockville, Maryland and dozens of stops in between — MilliporeSigma’s Curiosity Cube™ mobile science lab brought hands-on science to many communities and young minds across North America in 2018. Through 118 events during the second annual tour, the Curiosity Cube™ mobile science lab aimed to spark students’ curiosity in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). This year’s schedule included a stop in Toronto as part of the mobile science lab’s first visit to Canada.
The life science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany operates as MilliporeSigma in the U.S. and Canada

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