May 11, 1999 International Week May 10-15 New Dean for Health and Human Services Spring Literary Festival May 12-14

• Phi Beta Delta, International Honor Society, will be holding their Induction Ceremony today from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in Baker Center as part of International Week.
  
  
• Ted Williams, a Sundancer and member of the False Face Society, will speak tonight at 7 p.m. in Irvine Hall Auditorium. He will discuss, "The Law of the Great Peace." The event is sponsored by the Native Peoples Awareness Coalition as part of International Week.
  
  
• For more, please visit the online Calendar of Events.

• Ohio University's Amber Merrill selected for the United States Women's Volleyball A-2 Training Team
  
  
• Free Childhood Immunizations Offered
  
  
• Congratulations Beth Mazur for a strong finish in the CVS Cleveland Marathon and 10K
  
  
• 1999 Bobcat Football Season Tickets Now Available
  
  
• Transportation from Athens to Columbus available

Frontiers in Science Series Presents 'Medicine Man' Mark Plotkin, a best-selling author and renowned ethnobotanist, will present "Tales from the Jungle" as part of Ohio University's Frontiers in Science Lecture Series at 8 p.m. May 11 in First United Methodist Church, College Street. The lecture is free and open to the public. Plotkin has spent the past 15 years researching Amazon plants throughout Latin America with the hope of finding some that might provide cures for Alzheimer's, AIDS and cancer. He is author of "Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice," a best-selling account of his time spent with the medicine men of the Amazon. Plotkin is the executive director of the Ethnobiology and Conservation Team in Washington, D.C., and also is the founder of the Shaman's Apprentice Program, a society in which tribal elders pass their knowledge of the medicinal properties of plants to younger tribe members. For more information, please read the full text of this press release.