Race, medical research and policies topic of talk

Two professors will discuss “Race and Equality in America” as part of UCI’s 10th annual Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellows Series.

New York University sociology professor Troy Duster, who studies the role of ethnicity in biomedical research, will join University of Notre Dame professor Dianne Pinderhughes, who researches racial and ethnic politics and public policy, in a lecture Thursday.

The lecture series brings top intellectuals in the sciences and humanities to UCI for public talks. The lecture will begin at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in the University Club on campus. For more information, go to www.chancellor.uci.edu/cdfs.shtml.

— Michael Alexander