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Award-winning author Richard Preston will speak to Lake Highland Preparatory School faculty and students in grades 9-12 who recently read The Hot Zone. The Hot Zone is an international best seller that introduces the threat of Ebola and other rain forest viruses. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, and has received the American Institute of Physics Award, the AAAS-Westinghouse Award, and the McDermott Award in the Arts from MIT. He is the only non-physician to receive the Champion of Prevention Award from the Centers for Disease Control. Richard Preston will be speaking at 8:45am and 10:10am at Lake Highland Preparatory School, Harriett Coleman Center for the Arts. (901 N. Highland Avenue, Orlando, FL 32803)