Race for a Cure

Live Webcast of Lecture on Polio,

September 7th, 2006

A webcast presentation about polio will given by Dr. David Oshinsky, author of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize winning book "Polio: An American Story", at the University of Texas at Austin. In his presentation entitled "Race for a Cure". He will tell the enthralling account of America's battle with polio, the terror it caused, and the intense effort to find a cure.

You are invited to view an educational and FREE web broadcast of the lecture live, at 7 pm (CDST) on September 7, 2006. After that date, there will also have an archived video of the talk online.

The link to the Lecture Series website, where the details of the lecture and the webcast can be found, is at

http://www.esi.utexas.edu/outreach/lectures.html

From this website, signed copies of Professor Oshinsky's Pulitzer Prize winning book can be purchased for a 20% discount.

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