Ebola expert’s Coe College speech postponed

CEDAR RAPIDS - Pulitzer Prize-winning authority on Ebola Laurie Garrett's talk at Coe College has been rescheduled.

Inclement weather on the East Coast has postponed Garrett, who was originally scheduled to talk Tuesday for Coe's Contemporary Issues Forum.

The event will now take place March 17 at 7:30 p.m. in Sinclair Auditorium.

Tickets already issued for the event will be honored on the rescheduled date, according to Coe officials. Ticket holders unable to attend the lecture on March 17, can return their tickets to the Coe Box Office for a refund.

The Coe box office is open Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Tickets for the rescheduled event remain available for $10 for the general public, $5 for students and seniors, by calling the Coe Box Office at 319-399-8600.

Garrett, a former science reporter for NPR and Newsday, covered the 1995 Ebola outbreak in Kikwit, Zaire. She also contributes to publications like Foreign Affairs, Esquire, Vanity Fair, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and Current Issues in Public Health.

Past guests of Coe's Contemporary Issues Forum have included President George H.W. Bush, former Poland President Lech Walesa, deep-sea oceanographer Robert Ballard, civil rights activist Myrlie Evers-Williams, and 'Doonesbury” cartoonist Garry Trudeau.