Volunteer Alice Chiang with Dex, a puppy up for adoption by the SPCA, at the 4th Annual Doggone Walk-a-Thon. Yolo County SPCA hosted this event at the Community Park, where participants enjoyed fun activities, entertainment, children’s games, pet photos and a dog costume contest.

TODAY Health center groundbreaking ceremony 10to11a.m. LaRue Road Basketball Courts Celebrate the groundbreaking of a newCowellStudentHealthCenter.

Trailing late into games has been a season-long habit the Aggies are trying to kick. This past weekend, UC Davis (29-16, 9-6) overcame two late deficits to take a crucial weekend series from No. 23 Long Beach State (27-17, 9-6) and stay in the contention for a postseason birth.

On Friday night, The People Power Tour made a stop in Sacramento as part of itsnationwide hip-hop benefit. Members from Students Organizing for Change, Muslim Student Association, MeCHA and Acción Zapatista Davis co-sponsored the show. This year, Students Organizing for Change is focusing on raising awareness for the Killer Coke campaign, an effort to stop purchasing Coca-Cola products, and D-Q University. Friday’s concert aimed to direct attention to two issues: D-Q and Filipino rights.

Thursday evening’s intimate outdoor concert at the Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center was enjoyable for attendees and a nuisance to neighboring ears.

Not to be overshadowed by the varsity team‘s successor overlooked by any of their opponents, the women‘s club program has done something that no UC Davis water polo team has ever accomplished. They have captured the top seed in the country.

A UC Davisresearchreported that pigs fed goat‘s milk modified with a human enzyme were better able to fend off E.coli bacteria than pigs fed unmodified goats‘ milk. While theongoingresearch began in the 1990s, it has just been recently published in the May issue of Journal of Nutrition.

The A.D. 1600 eruption ofthe Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina may have had a global environmental impact, according to the recent findings of UC Davis geology professor Kenneth Verosub and senior geology major Jake Lippman.

Event:Steve Scott Invitational; Payton Jordan Invitational Where:Anteater Stadium – Irvine,Calif.; Cobb Track and Angell Field – Stanford,Calif. When:Saturday,all day; Sunday,all day

For the past two weeks,the rally magic that had catapulted the Aggies to the top of the Big West Conference seemed to have disappeared. On Tuesday,it came back in one inning against the third-ranked team in the nation.

Mark Woods, the first-year student accused of possessing explosives, pled not guiltyto two felony charges in Yolo County Superior Court on Apr.25. Woods faces charges of possession of materials to make a destructive device without first obtaining a permit and possession of a destructive device on public property,said assistant district attorney Steve Mount.

This Saturday, Transportation and Parking Services will be hosting their bi-annual bicycle auction at the West Entry Parking Structure starting at 8a.m. Viewing of the 450-plus bikes will be from 8 to 9 a.m., and will be followed by bidding at 9a.m.,which generally ends around1p.m., said David Takemoto-Weerts, TAPS bicycle program coordinator.