 What makes for excellence in heart care? It starts with one of the most amazing teams of heart surgeons and cardiologists that I've seen assembled under one roof and the region's leading technology in a new 40 million dollar facility. This is the nationally recognized Heart and Vascular Institute of Eastern Kentucky at Pikeville Medical Center. The University of Pikeville will soon be hosting several events for Black History Month. This includes a movie night featuring Glory Road, a family reunion tailgate party for the upcoming women's basketball game and the night of cultural excellence. U-Pike diversity officials are happy to welcome students and faculty to celebrate. I believe that the tailgate will be very well attended reason being it is senior day for our men's and women's basketball teams so that that is the whole theme behind our family reunion. You know we have team we have families coming in from all over the United States to support their their children who are here who are U-Pike bears. The night of excellence the following week on February 24th I I expect a huge turn out for that reason being is because it is a community-wide event it is just not for U-Pike. We're honoring community members and we're also honoring faculty and staff here at the university and of course our students here. We try and educate everybody on the different cultures that we have here at the university and and we just want to add to the U-Pike culture. So to see people showing up to the events it is it is a very good feeling you know because it feels like we're actually making a good impact and we're actually reaching our targeted audiences. The night of cultural excellence is an inclusive event to celebrate the community. Contributions from everyone in the city and university are being recognized. This year's event the night of excellence is we we decided to change it a little and make it the night of cultural excellence so that we can celebrate the contributions of everybody to making the University of Pikeville in the in the city of Pikeville more inclusive and diverse for everyone who touches it. Reporting from Mountain Top News I'm Nick Colum.