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HOPEWELL, NEW JERSEY
WORLDWIDE MEDICINES

Facts and Figures

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMS) is a leading diversified worldwide health and personal care company with a mission to extend and enhance human life by providing the highest-quality health and personal care products. The acquisition of the former Mobil Technical Center in Hopewell represents a strategic investment by BMS to continue the discovery and development of new health care products and expand information management technology. The decision to acquire the Hopewell Facility also aligns with BMS' commitment to sustainable development.
Sustainable development is defined as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. BMS' plan for smart growth of the Hopewell Facility embraces this definition by combining rehabilitation of a dormant facility with a holistic approach to future development that promises more efficient resource use.
The 433-acre campus offers 1,000,000 square feet of laboratories, office space, and computing facilities, with opportunities to expand in the future.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company acquired the research, data, and administrative center in Hopewell Township, New Jersey, in 1997.

Economic Development

Local charitable contributions

Bristol-Myers Squibb has provided a $50,000 grant to the Hopewell Valley Foundation to support science education. Bristol-Myers has also provided science kits used in the Hopewell Elementary School.

Community and Social Progress

Employee volunteering

BMS employees started volunteering for Hopewell Elementary School's "Book Buddies" pilot reading program.
BMS partnered with Hopewell Valley schools to help them expand their internet capabilities. Hopewell employees from Information Management volunteered their expertise and a $20,000 grant.

Civic activities supported

BMS sponsored two "Project WET" teacher workshops. Project WET is a program that facilitates and promotes awareness, appreciation, knowledge, and stewardship of water resources through the development and dissemination of classroom-ready teaching aids and through the establishment of state and internationally sponsored Project WET programs.
Bristol-Myers Squibb partnered with Hopewell Valley High School, North Brunswick High School, and Rutgers University as part of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology). FIRST is a national program that exposes high school students to the world of engineering by teaming them up with experts from the business and academic sectors.
For the past 15 years, the company has supported the Minority Access to the Professions Scholars (MAPS) program at Middlesex County College in Edison, New Jersey. MAPS provide African-Americans and Hispanic students with career and educational planning support as well as personal growth and development through internships and mentoring with corporate sponsors.
At Princeton University, the company supports the QUEST program to enhance the science and math teaching skills of elementary school teachers. QUEST fosters collaboration among members of Princeton University's science and engineering departments, local schoolteachers, and undergraduates earning certification to teach in the public schools.
BMS Hopewell participates in the BLAST (Building Leadership & Assistance for Science Teaching) Program. This program allows BMS employees to borrow science books and tapes, assist teachers in classroom science, and to participate in short courses at Rider University that enable them to delve into the theory and practice of inquiry, classroom learning, and "science coaching."

Awards and Recognition

In 2005, Bristol-Myers Squibb Hopewell received numerous New Jersey Annual Governor's Occupational Safety and Health Awards

Support to local emergency response organizations

BMS donated 3 Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs) to the Pennington Volunteer Fire Department ($12,000).
BMS donated $30,000 to the Hopewell Valley Fire Commissioners for the purchase of a Fire Education Trailer. This trailer is a mobile education unit used to teach children the proper way to react to and escape from a fire.
In addition BMS donated over $35,000 to the Hopewell Valley Fire Safety Bureau, the Pennington Volunteer Fire Department and the Pennington First Aid Squad in 2005.

Environmental Performance

In August 2006, the Bristol-Myers Squibb Hopewell Campus was nominated by the Stony Brook Millstone Watershed Association for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's first annual Water Efficiency Leaders Award which recognizes organizations who are providing leadership and innovation in water efficient practices.
The Bristol-Myers Squibb Hopewell Campus received River Friendly Business Certification from the Stony Brook Millstone Watershed Association in July 2006. The River Friendly program tailors goals and requirements to be completed in the categories of Water Quality Management, Water Conservation Techniques, Wildlife and Habitat Enhancement, and Education and Outreach.
The Bristol-Myers Squibb Hopewell Campus received certification from the Wildlife Habitat Council in November 2001. The Wildlife Habitat Council's Corporate Habitat Certification/International Accreditation program recognizes commendable wildlife habitat management and environmental education programs at individual sites. BMS Hopewell applied for program recertification in July 2006.
The facility has adopted the Marsh Hawk (Northern Harrier/Circus cyaneus) as part of the company's Sustainability 2010 goal to encourage each facility and business to help protect endangered species and habitats.

Land conservation / habitat protection /

endangered species activities

The Hopewell facility has developed a brochure (1.9 MB PDF) to help raise awareness about Stormwater Management. The Hopewell Campus watershed consists of agricultural, forest, open field, wetland, stream, and pond habitats that comprise most of a sub-watershed of the Stony Brook. Most water from the developed portion of the Hopewell Campus drains to on-Campus ponds, which periodically drain to the Stony Brook through an unnamed tributary. We have implemented a watershed stormwater management plan that provides an integrative approach to evaluating activities on the Hopewell Campus that may influence water resources locally and downstream. As part of this approach, we have optimized water reuse to reduce wastewater discharge, reduced our use of fertilizers and pesticides, enhanced wetland areas to reduce stormwater velocity and increase groundwater recharge, and landscaped the Hopewell Campus to reduce high maintenance and impervious surfaces. As part of our commitment to the Hopewell Community, we monitor water quality and quantity in the Stony Brook.
The Hopewell facility has developed a brochure (319k PDF) to help raise awareness about local threatened and endangered species. This brochure also encourages taking steps in order to protect these species.
A Watershed Walk and brochure ( Watershed Walk (529k PDF)), was developed on the campus, which is a two-mile trail with seven stations highlighting the important features of the BMS Hopewell Campus Watershed.
The Hopewell facility, in support of Earthday, developed a Wildlife Walk (1.3mb PDF), which is the two-mile walk with six stations describing the natural and developed wildlife habitat at the site.

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