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King Award to Go to Four at UCSF Four campus members will be honored
next month for promoting diversity and leading others to
carry out the ideals inspired by Martin Luther King Jr. UCSF medical students Kyra Bobinet and Jennifer Danek, Daniel Lowenstein, MD, associate professor of neurology, and Stella Hsu, director of campus auxiliary services, have been named winners of this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Award. Chancellor Haile Debas will present the awards at a ceremony, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., in Cole Hall. The ceremony is part of a week-long campus celebration commemorating the life of Dr. King. (See schedule of events.) Bobinet and Danek, both fourth-year students, will be recognized for their hundreds of volunteer hours helping incarcerated and at-risk youth in San Francisco and organizing a UCSF program at the city’s youth guidance center. “The UCSF students teach a course about health and personal responsibility, but general lessons of life are an important subliminal message,” said Michael Drake, MD, associate dean of admissions in the School of Medicine. “For many of the incarcerated youth, this represents their first positive experience in the classroom setting, their first experience with an educated advocate and their first personal relationship with someone as successful and ‘powerful’ as our medical students.” Lowenstein, who co-chaired the Chancellor’s Steering Committee on Diversity from 1995 to 1997, led a group of faculty, staff and students to develop an agenda for addressing affirmative action issues and improving diversity on campus. Lowenstein, an outspoken and passionate advocate of affirmative action, “has mobilized over a hundred members and volunteers to come together to work on the committee,” said award nominators. “As a distinguished faculty member, Dr. Lowenstein exemplifies the model teacher and mentor to many students from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds.” Hsu will also be honored for her work on the diversity committee, which she co-chaired with Lowenstein. “Stella’s extraordinary leadership, commitment and dedication, has resulted in numerous programs and activities that promote and advance the mutual respect, understanding and appreciation for the cultural and ethnic diversity within our campus community,” her nominators wrote. She was a driving force behind a campus survey, which is being used to help UCSF set goals for future diversity efforts. See schedule of events for Martin Luther King Jr. Week at UCSF. By Andy Evangelista 1st appeared 12/15/97 |
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