Return to the Wayne State University campus for a new academic year and celebrate the School of Medicine’s diversity during the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’s Summer Social/Welcome Back on Aug. 5.

The event, which will include a barbecue dinner and a viewing of the newly-installed mural at the School of Medicine, will take place from 3 to 7 p.m.. in the Margherio Family Conference Center.

“We invite everybody – students, faculty, staff, alumni – to join us as we celebrate the tremendous diversity that exists at our School of Medicine,” said Donovan Roy, Ed.D., vice dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. “This will be an opportunity to meet alumni, bond with peers, eat delicious food, win prizes, reflect on historical figures, network and learn more about the new mural.”

The mural, the product of a public humanities initiative to connect a multidisciplinary team of physicians, artists, students and activists with the broader community to celebrate the history of diversity in medicine and public health at Wayne State University and in the city, was installed on the 375-foot-long public-facing concrete wall along the sidewalk north of Scott Hall, on the south side of Canfield Street, on June 13.

WSU fine arts students designed the mural, based on oral histories of community members with deep roots to the location on which the School of Medicine sits. The area is the former site of the Plymouth Congregational Church in Detroit’s historic Black Bottom and Paradise Valley neighborhoods. The mural is intended as a monument to African American progress in the medical field, in Detroit and within the global community.

RSVP for the event here.

For more information, email ba4414@wayne.edu.