By USU Media Relations and Marketing

January 14, 2008 | LOGAN — The Black Student Union at Utah State University has organized events in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., including a keynote address and a candlelight vigil Thursday. Activities are open to everyone.

The keynote address features Raymond Scott, presenting "Contemporary Views on Race/Race Relations." He speaks at 5:30 p.m. in the Taggart Student Center's Sunburst Lounge.

Scott is an associate professor of psychology and the department's program chair in clinical-community psychology at the University of La Verne in southern California. He received his doctorate in clinical psychology in 1996 from the University of Tulsa. His main areas of clinical concentration and research interests are in the subfields of cultural, ethnic and sexual minority psychologies and their impact on mainstream psychology and public health. Other concentration and research areas address diversity and multicultural competence, HIV disease and health disparities, spirituality and psychotherapy, and masculinity, sexuality and critical theory. He is a licensed clinical psychologist, a Health Disparities Scholar for the National Institutes of Health and an ambassador for the National Heal Service Corps.

A candlelight vigil follows Scott's keynote address. For information, contact the Multicultural Student Services office at USU, (435) 797-1733.

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