Expert to Speak at Y. On Tropical Ills

PROVO — Thomas M. Yuill, emeritus director and professor at the Nelson institute for Environmental Studies, will speak at noon Feb. 7 at Brigham Young University.

His address, “Emerging Diseases in the Tropics: Biology Meets Economics, Politics and Culture,” will be in Room 238 of the Herald R. Clark Building. Admission is free and the public is welcome.

Yuill earned a bachelor’s degree in wildlife management from Utah State University and master’s and doctoral degrees in wildlife ecology, veterinary science and virology from the University of Wisconsin.

He began his career as a captain at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in the Department of Virus Diseases, where he studied arthropod-borne viruses. – He also worked with the World Bank in La Paz, Bolivia, and served as acting director of the Center for Livestock in International Development.

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