A free public lecture titled "Climate Change and Disease" will be given from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 26, in room 100 of the Thomas Building on Penn State's University Park. The talk will be delivered by Matthew B. Thomas, professor of entomology at Penn State. This is the final lecture in this year's Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science series, a free minicourse for the general public with the theme "Epidemic: Infectious Disease on a Changing Planet." No registration is required.

A free public lecture titled "Viruses: Friends or Foes?" will be given from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 12, in room 100 of the Thomas Building on Penn State's University Park campus. The lecture will be delivered by Mary Poss, professor of biology and of veterinary and biomedical sciences at Penn State. The event is the fourth of six lectures in the 2011 Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science, a free minicourse for the general public with the theme "Epidemic: Infectious Disease on a Changing Planet." No registration is required.

A free public lecture titled "Just When You Thought You Were Safe . . . New Emerging Diseases Appear" by Peter Hudson will be given at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 22, in 100 Thomas Building on the Penn State University Park campus. Hudson is Willaman professor of biology and director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences at Penn State. The event is the first of six lectures in the 2011 Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science, a free minicourse for the general public with the theme "Epidemic: Infectious Disease on a Changing Planet." No registration is required. All the lectures take place from 11 a.m. to about 12:30 p.m. on six consecutive Saturday mornings in 100 Thomas Building.