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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:36:07 -0500 From: "Fred Benenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Free Culture @ NYU's list serv" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [free-culture] REMINDER: PLoS Comes to NYU Wednesday at 6:30pm Reply-To: "Fred Benenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Culture @ NYU, We're not meeting tomorrow (Tuesday) but we are having an event on Wednesday.. Please join us! We'll be giving out free t-shirts and schwag from PLoS. --- Gavin Yamey from the Public Library of Science will be joining on Wednesday the 15th at 6:30pm to give a presentation. We've co-sponsored the evening with the Information Law Institute Student Association, who will be providing us a luxurious room at the law school. Here is Gavin's bio: Gavin Yamey, Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine Gavin Yamey is a product of three continents - he was born in Cape Town, raised in London, and now lives in San Francisco. He studied medicine at the University of Oxford and University College London, graduating in 1994. After five years of working as a physician in a variety of settings - including an AIDS hospice, a dialysis ward, and a brain injuries unit - he joined the British Medical Journal (BMJ)in 1999 as a trainee in medical journalism and editing. In 2001, he moved to San Francisco to be the deputy editor of the Western Journal of Medicine, published by the BMJ and the University of California. Gavin has written extensively on global health, malaria, and HIV/AIDS, and has helped to train medical editors at workshops in Barcelona and Addis Ababa.He'll be coming to Free Culture @ NYU to give a presentation about his work on open access, global health, and The Public Library of Science. The Public Library of Science is an open-access academic journal that publishes all of its work under Creative Commons Attribution licenses. For more information visit : http://www.plos.org Here are the details: Gavin Yamey of Public Library of Science Wednesday, November 15th at 6:30pm NYU Law School, Furman Hall 326, from 6:30pm-8 Free and Open to the Public (bring ID if non-NYU) Best, Fred Benenson -- The content of this email message is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License, Some Rights Reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ </blockquote> Distributed poC TINC: Jay Sulzberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Corresponding Secretary LXNY LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
