Distinguished Lecture on “Insect Menace” Marks Mosquito Control Awareness Week

Event coordinator Patricia Kastner may be contacted at 732-932-7000, ext. 4211 or kastner@sebs.rutgers.edu.

WHAT: Marking National Mosquito Control Awareness Week (June 21–27), the Executive Dean’s Distinguished Lecture series brings a free lecture on “Waging War on the Insect Menace: Rutgers and the Origins of the American Anti-Mosquito Crusade,” followed by a reception and book signing of The Mosquito Crusades: A History of the American Anti-Mosquito Movement from the Reed Commission to the First Earth Day by author and presenter Gordon M. Patterson.

WHEN: Monday, June 22, 2009, 4 p.m. for the distinguished lecture, followed by a reception and book signing.

WHERE: Rectangle Room, Neilson Dining Hall, 177 Ryders Lane, New Brunswick, N.J.

WHO: Gordon M. Patterson is a professor of history at Florida Tech, where he has taught since 1981. Before coming to Florida Tech, Patterson spent eight years in Europe working in Vienna and Heidelberg. He held a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Heidelberg. Professor Patterson has received six National Endowment for the Humanities awards. He holds two graduate-level degrees from UCLA (C.Phil and Ph.D.), as well as a B.S. from Northwestern University.

In spring 2009, Rutgers University Press published Patterson's book, The Mosquito Crusades: A History of the American Anti-Mosquito Movement from the Reed Commission to the First Earth Day.