Diversity Week 2005 Schedule

Monday  ||  Tuesday  ||  Wednesday  ||  Thursday  ||  Friday 



Monday, July 11

11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Spiritual Series Panel
"Religious Differences in Our Workforce: Faith and Healing"
Levin Hall Dining Room
Lunch will be provided and space is limited.
How is healing affected by our faith? Speakers from different faith backgrounds will speak about the impact of faith on healing from the perspective of their respective religions. Don't miss this very powerful and popular session.
Speakers:
Marvin Cohen, M.D., UTMB Department of Anesthesiology;
Sonali Singh, M.D., UTMB Department of Ophthalmology;
M. Kay Sandor, Ph.D., RN, LPC, AHN-C, UTMB School of Nursing;
The Venerable Ngawang Tashi Bapu, Principal Chant Master of the Dalai Lama’s Tibetan Buddhist Drepung Loseling Monastery in India



5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Film and Panel Discussion
THE COLOR OF FEAR
Levin Hall Dining Room
Light refreshments provided
The Color of Fear is an insightful, groundbreaking film about the state of race relations in America as seen through the eyes of eight North American men of Asian, European, Latino and African descent. In a series of intelligent, emotional and dramatic confrontations the men reveal the pain and scars that racism has caused them. What emerges is a deeper sense of understanding and trust. This is the dialogue most of us fear, but hope will happen sometime in our lifetime.

7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
“Healing Sounds” with the Dalai Lama's Chant Master the Venerable Ngawang Lama Tashi Bapu
Levin Hall Auditorium North
The Venerable Ngawang Tashi Bapu, principal Chant Master of the Dalai Lama’s Drepung Loseling Monastery in India, one of the largest Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in the world with over 3,000 monks, will be the featured speaker for a Spirituality in Healthcare Dialogue  “Healing Sounds” is the topic for the dialogue, open free to the public, as a part of UTMB’s Diversity Week celebration.

Tashi will speak about the role of chanting in the life of a monastery and the life of a Buddhist. He will be demonstrate and explain more about how the chant is done, and how sound heals.

Tuesday, July 12

8 a.m. – 10 a.m.
Speaker and Community Panel Discussion
Diversity Council and the Galveston Economic
Development Partnership present
"Population Change in Texas: Implications for the 21st Century Workforce"  with Dr. Steve Murdock
Mario's Seawall Italian Restaurant
628 Seawall Boulevard
Continental Breakfast - Limited seating
RSVP to Irene Weedman.
Steve H. Murdock is the Lutcher Brown Distinguished Chair in Management Science and Statistics at the University of Texas at San Antonio College of Business. As part of his appointment, he is also the director for the Institute for Demographic and Socioeconomic Research. Prior to his appointment at UTSA, Dr. Murdock was the Regents Professor and Head of the Department of Rural Sociology at Texas A&M University. He is also the official State Demographer of Texas. He was appointed to this position by Governor Rick Perry and is the first person to occupy this position. As state demographer, Dr. Murdock heads the State Data Center, a network of 45 university, state, regional and municipal agencies that provide access to demographic information on the socioeconomic characteristics of Texas.

Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Special Town Meeting
Levin Hall Main
Hear UTMB’s deans report on diversity among each school’s faculty and administrative and professional (A&P) staff, and what each school is doing to increase diversity. Chief Human Resource Officer Kathy Shingleton will report on diversity statistics among A&P and classified staff in other areas of the university. A diversity award presentation and Essay Contest award sponsored by the Diversity Council, will also take place.

Wednesday, July 13

Noon – 1:30 p.m.
William C. Levin Lecture on Health Care and Diversity
Featured Speaker: Dr. Vivian Pinn
"Diversity in Biomedical Careers"
Levin Hall Dining
Dr. Vivian W. Pinn is the first full-time director of the Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an appointment she has held since November 1991. In February 1994, she was also named as Associate Director for Research on Women's Health, NIH. Dr. Pinn came to NIH from Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C., where she had been Professor and Chair of the Department of Pathology since 1982, and has previously held appointments at Tufts University and Harvard Medical School. (Seating is limited; please RSVP via email or by calling ext. 26377.)

5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Film and Panel Discussion
LAST CHANCE FOR EDEN
Levin Hall Dining Room
Light refreshments provided
Last Chance for Eden is about nine women and men who spend two weekends together talking about racism. On camera for twenty-four hours, they struggle to find a way to understand each other's differences. In the second half, they ask each other questions they have always wanted answered. Their responses and reactions are compelling and revealing but also intimate and honest.

Thursday, July 14

Noon – 2 p.m.
Presentation and Panel Discussion:
The Harvard Debacle: Using Science to Rationalize Prejudice
Rebecca Sealy Conference Room 1.508
Presenting: Institutional Diversity Council, Core Committee for the Support of Underrepresented Ethnic Groups, and Core Committee for the Advancement of Women Faculty and Administrators 
Light lunch provided



Friday, July 15

11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Were you born to ride?
Motorcycle Rally & Bike Exhibition -
A Subculture of our Campus Community  Get additional details...

 Music & Fun
 Free lunch for
 employees and students
 East side of Levin Hall and
 Rose Garden Circle


 

7 p.m.
The seventh concert of the 2004-2005
UTMB Season Classical Concert
Los Llaneros - Music from South America
Levin Hall Main
Free Admission
This South American ensemble specializes in the music of the Colombian/Venezuelan plains that surround the vast basin of the Orinoco River. The music of this geographically and culturally unique area evolved from the contact between nomadic Indians and Jesuit settlers five hundred years ago. Authentic “Llanero” music is rarely performed outside these savannas because of its difficult harp, cuatro, and percussion techniques, and hence it remains one of Latin America’s best kept secrets. Concerts are filled with high energy, unique instrumentation, and unforgettable syncopations.

Los Llaneros have won several awards at Latin American competitions, and René Devia,  the ensemble’s harpist, is recognized as one of  Colombia’s  foremost specialists in Llanero.

Other Activities:

Employee Diversity Essay Contest
Details here...