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FRONTIERS
IN SCIENCE SERIES
PRESENTS MEDICINE MAN'
5/5/99
Contact: Assistant Vice President for University
Communications and Marketing Richard Polen, (740)
593-2200
ATHENS,
Ohio -- 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.
Plotkin's work has been featured in the movie "Amazon" at
IMAX theaters throughout the world. His work also has been
profiled in "Nova," "NBC Nightly News" and "48 Hours" and in
publications such as Life, The New York Times,
The Los Angeles Times and Smithsonian. He has
studied at Harvard and Yale universities, earning his Ph.D.
in forestry and environmental studies from Tufts
University.
The
Frontiers in Science Lecture Series, established in 1991 by
Ohio University alumnus Jeanette G. Grasselli and Glen R.
Brown, brings scientists to campus who encourage the
understanding of science.
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