The University will sponsor a Commemoration Celebration at 7 p.m. Jan. 21 in Graham Chapel. The theme for this year's event is "Realizing The Dream."

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton will greet the audience, and Linda Kennedy of the Black Repertory Theatre will be the keynote speaker. The program will include a performance by the Visions Choir. There will also be vignettes and testimonials by University students.

A reception in the Women's Lounge in the Women's Building will follow the program. The event is free and open to the public.

For additional information, contact Marva Lloyd Redd, director of Student Educational Service, at 935-5970.

Elena V. Rios, M.D., president of the National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA), will present the School of Medicine's Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Lecture at 4 p.m. Jan. 21. The lecture and reception will be held at the Newman Center, 320 S. Euclid Ave.

Rios works to improve the health care of Hispanics across the nation in her role at NHMA and also as director of the Hispanic-Serving Health Professions Schools Inc., a group of 22 medical schools with 9 percent Hispanic student enrollment.

She served on the White House's National Health Care Reform Task Force in 1993 and was adviser for regional and minority women's health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office on Women's Health from 1994-98.

After earning a bachelor's degree from Stanford University, Rios earned a master's degree in health planning and policy analysis from the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health and a medical degree from UCLA's School of Medicine.