• "POVERTY VS. PRIVILEGE IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY" will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 11, in Bayley Auditorium in the Barbara Deer Kuss Science Center. The panel discussion is a precursor to the university’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day activities.

• THE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. COMMEMORATIVE CONVOCATION will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 15, in Weaver Chapel. Read more ...

• A Q & A WITH MICHAEL ERIC DYSON, author, commentator and this year's King Commemorative Convocation speaker, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, Jan. 15, in 105 Shouvlin Center. Visit the King Observance Web site for a complete list of activities.

• THE DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT will present Edward Burghard, the Harley Proctor Marketer on loan from Proctor and Gamble as executive director of the Ohio Business Development Coalition, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 23, in Bayley Auditorium on branding the state of Ohio. 

• THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY will present Molly M. Wood, associate professor of history, at a 3:45 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 25, in Ness Family Auditorium, Hollenbeck Hall. Wood will give a talk titled “[He] Has a Wholesome, Representative American Family: The Untold Story of the U.S. Foreign Service in the Early Twentieth Century."