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For Immediate Release

Media contact: Louise Teague, 260-481-6495

Omnibus News Conference with Henry Louis Gates Jr.

(Fort Wayne, Jan. 31, 2008) -- The Indiana University—Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) 2007-08 Omnibus Lecture Series presents Harvard scholar and writer Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008, at 7:30 p.m. in The John and Ruth Rhinehart Music Center. The free lecture is titled "Genealogy and Genetics and the African-American Experience."

A news conference with Gates will be held for members of the media Feb. 7 at 3 p.m. in the IPFW Walb Student Union, Room 222. An open session with Gates for students will be held immediately following the news conference in the same location. The media is welcome to attend.

For more information or a downloadable photo or bio, visit www.omnibuslectures.org or contact University Relations and Communications at 260-481-6808.

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