The community is invited to attend UTMB’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Excellence in Servant Leadership Award Ceremony and Luncheon on Jan. 29 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Levin Hall Dining Room, 11th and Market streets in Galveston. The keynote speaker is Kelton D. Sams Jr., author of “Growing up in Galveston, Texas” and youth leader in the Galveston lunch counter desegregation movement. — The community is invited to attend UTMB’s Health Policy Dialog Lunch, “Nuestra Mesa: Tapping into Human Generativity through Shared Meals,” is Jan. 21 from noon to 1 p.m. in Research Building 6 (old Children’s), Room 2.312. Dr. Carolina Gonzalez-Schlenker, from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, is guest speaker. — UTMB’s Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and the Methodist Hospital Ophthalmology Department, Houston, held its inaugural Sun & Science: National Educational Research Conference for ophthalmology residents and fellows Jan. 9-11. — Alison Glendenning-Napoli has been selected to serve on a case management standard-setting panel for the American Nurses Credentialing Center. — Carol M. Wiggs has been elected to membership of The University of Texas Kenneth I. Shine, M.D., Academy of Health Science Education. — Tammy Cupit and Dora Kuntz in the UTMB School of Nursing have been selected to serve on the American Nurses Association Professional Issues Panel Advisory Committee related to Workplace Violence and Incivility.