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1st appeared 15 December 2000

Astronaut Highlights Campus' MLK Week

NASA astronaut Yvonne D. Cagle, MD, will be the keynote speaker when UCSF celebrates its 15^th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Week next month.

Cagle will speak at San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center on Tuesday, January 16, at noon in Carr Auditorium. On the Parnassus campus, Wednesday, January 17, noon, in Cole Hall, she will deliver the keynote address -- "Remembering Our Past as We Reach for the Future."

The following is the schedule of events organized by the campus' MLK Commemoration Week Committee:

Thursday, January 11

UCSF Gospel Choir performs, noon, Laurel Heights cafeteria

Tuesday, January 16

MLK Awards Ceremony, 12 to 2 p.m., Cole Hall. Chancellor Bishop invites the campus to honor individuals chosen from faculty, staff and students who have furthered the goal of achieving ethnic diversity at UCSF.

UCSF at SFGHMC Keynote Speaker, Lt. Col. Yvonne D. Cagle, MD, Carr Auditorium, noon. Reception follows.

UCSF Gospel Choir performs, noon, Mount Zion Lobby

Wednesday, January 17

"Medicine in Space" -- Cagle, visits with students, 4^th-12^th grades, in San Francisco Unified School District, 9 a.m. to noon.

Keynote Address, " Remembering Our Past as We Reach for The Future," by Cagle, noon, Cole Hall.

Thursday, January 18

Chancellor's Concert Series, noon, Cole Hall.

MLK Celebration at Mission Center, noon, Room 126. Includes food and performance by UCSF Gospel Choir.

Movie and forum. "Bamboozled," 5:45 and 8 p.m., Cole Hall. Michael Adams, director of the UCSF Office of Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity, and Diversity, will lead discussion before the movie.

Friday, January 19

MLK XV Closing Cultural Fest, Millberry Union Gym, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Features the Bay Area group Pure Ecstasy, various cultural dancers, singing and drums, food, prizes.

Movie and forum. "Bamboozled," 6:30 and 9 p.m., Cole Hall. UCSF professor John Watson, chair of the UCSF Black Caucus and co-chair of the Chancellor's Committee on Diversity, will lead discussion prior to the movie.

Links:

NASA -- Yvonne Cagle Biography

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