SEMINARS AND COLLOQUIA: Law clinic celebration, Nutritional genomics, Climate conference delayed

LAW CLINIC CELEBRATION -- The UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic has organized a conference and luncheon in celebration of the clinic's quarter-century of service to low-income immigrants facing deportation issues.

The event is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 15 at King Hall.

Second- and third-year law students operate the clinic, providing free community education and legal services. Over 25 years, the clinic has represented hundreds of people from around the world in deportation and asylum cases while giving students an opportunity to gain valuable lawyering experience.

More information: www.law.ucdavis.edu (look under "Events").

NUTRITIONAL GENOMICS -- The second International Bruce Ames Symposium on Nutritional Genomics is scheduled for Oct. 12-14 at UC Davis.

Organizers said the symposium will focus on recent studies that attempt to combine the diverse properties of food with the complex processes involved in heart disease, diabetes, obesity and cancer.

Professor Ray Rodriguez, symposium chair and a professor of molecular and cellular biology at UC Davis, said: "If you believe as I do that good nutrition can promote health and prevent disease, then we must address the hard question — how?"

The symposium is being organized by the National Center for Minority Health Disparities Center of Excellence in Nutritional Genomics, of which UC Davis is a partner.

More information: nutrigenomics.ucdavis.edu.

CLIMATE CONFERENCE DELAYED -- The California Center for Urban Horticulture announced the postponement of its conference titled Global Climate Change ... in Your Neighborhood. Scheduling conflicts forced the move, a spokeswoman said.

The conference, originally planned for Sept. 14-15, is now scheduled for the spring of 2008, with the dates to be announced later.

For more information, contact the California Center for Urban Horticulture: (530) 752-6642 or ccuh@caes.ucdavis.edu. The center's Web site address is ccuh.ucdavis.edu.

Visit calendar.ucdavis.edu for all calendar and seminar listings.

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