April 6, 2006
Health Sciences News Briefs
What’s cultural competency?
A development workshop, open to health sciences faculty will explore what cultural competency means in different settings and present tools and skill sets for use in medical settings.
The workshop will be from 8:30 a.m. to noon, Tuesday, April 18, in South Campus Center. Principal faculty are Dr. David Acosta, Polly Olsen and Dr. Joseph York. For more information or to register, visit http://www.mebi.washington.edu/facdev.html.
Photo exhibit at Harborview
An exhibit of photos by Amanda Koster is on view this month in the Harborview Research & Training Building Lobby, in cooperation with the Harborview Center for AIDS Research. Koster took the photos in Rabour Village, in western Kenya, and the exhibit title is AIDS is Knocking.
Koster will meet the public at 5 p.m. today, Thursday, April 6, in the R&T Auditorium and Lobby. She will show a short video from the village and talk about her work.
Emeritus Calvin honored
Dr. William Calvin, affiliate professor emeritus of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, will receive the 2006 Walter Kistler Book Award from the Bellevue-based Foundation for the Future.
Calvin’s book is titled A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution & Abrupt Climate Change. The award, which comes with a $10,000 prize, will be bestowed at 7 p.m. today in 130 Kane.
