Release Date: February 9, 2005

MONMOUTH, Ill. — Ken Cramer, chair of the biology department at Monmouth College, will be the featured speaker at an International Luncheon on Feb. 16 at noon in the Whiteman-McMillan Highlander Room in the college’s Stockdale Center.

Entitled “Spiders and Snakes and Students, Oh My!,” Cramer’s talk will focus on his adventures on the Caribbean coast of Panama last summer when he took students from his insect ecology class to the tropical forest area.

His presentation, which is free and open to the public, will include his “unanticipated side trip to experience small-town Panamanian emergency health care for treatment of fer-de-lance (viper) envenomation.”

A buffet lunch, featuring international foods, is available. A meal ticket may be purchased for $5 at the Stockdale Center’s Scan Plus office. Lunch reservations must be made in advance by contacting professor Sue Holm at 309-457-2150 or susan@monm.edu.

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