Author to talk about world’s scary viruses

Science author and journalist David Quammen will give a lecture at UNR on Feb. 4  titled Ebola and Beyond: Scary Viruses in a Globalized World.

It will focus on his most recent works about Ebola and AIDS – his books “The Chimp and the River” and “Ebola” – which stem from his acclaimed book about emerging diseases, “Spillover.”

David Quammen

Quammen is a journalist as well as a science, nature and travel writer. He has authored 15 books, five of them fiction.

In his 30-year career as a writer, more than 100 pieces of his short non-fiction have been published in popular magazines such as Harper’s, Outside, Esquire, Atlantic, Powder and Rolling Stone. He also wrote a column called “Natural Acts” for Outside magazine for 15 years. As a contributing writer for National Geographic magazine, he travels often, usually to wild and remote places.

The Quammen lecture begins at  7pm in the Redfield Auditorium in the Davidson Mathematics and Science Center at UNR. Admission is free.