TODAY Cooking Club fall welcome meeting 5to6p.m. Garrison Room,MU All are welcome to the Cooking Club’s meeting,where you can learn all about the club.Attendees can also expect a Jeopardy-style game with prizes!

Graduate School of Management Dean Nicole Woolsey Biggart has announced her intention to resign from her post in July and return to full time teaching and research in the fall of 2010 after a year-long sabbatical. “I had several projects that I wanted to see put in place,” Biggart said in an e-mail interview. “When I saw that these were all coming to fruition I thought it was a good time to step down and to attract my successor.”

The Friends of the Arboretum will celebrate the grand opening of the new teaching nursery this Saturday by holding its 34th annual Plant Faire. The sale features over 10,000 plants – mostly “All-Star plants” – Californian natives that have been hand selected by horticulturists on staff that will prosper in Davis’ Mediterranean-type climate.

While most of the attention in the Nelson Gallery is currently attributed to the main show taking place in the Art building, a small collection of photo collages by Jimmy Jalapeeno are on display at the entryway gallery. Unlike the other three artists on exhibit at the main gallery, Jalapeeno is a graduate of the UC Davis department of art during the “legendary ’70s.” He learned under the tutelage of the famous faculty that included Wayne Thiebaud, William T. Wiley and Robert Arneson, professors he said he holds in esteem.

If Cy Williams were a professor and not a head coach, the UC Davis men’s golfers may want to come see him in office hours. They didn’t grade out so well in their most recent performance.

Editor’s Note:MUSE recently had the opportunity to talk to Michael Cera and Kat Dennings,the stars of the film “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist,” in a roundtable interview with other college publications.The Q&A below contains excerpts from that interview.

081002_ar_sholi.CSummary:Headline: Sholi comes home on eve of Iron and Wine tourLayercake: Band to play at Old Firehouse on Saturday nightBy Chris RueAggie Arts WriterFor just about anyone, homecomings can be a tricky thing. On one hand, there are the prodigal sons who are welcomed back with open arms. And then there are the Jesus types, […]

Prominent University of California scientists formally presented plans for a School of Global Health to the regents last month. The proposed school would be the first of its kind, spanning all 10 UC campuses in a collaborative, interdisciplinary effort to solve issues that threaten the health and vitality of society.

If tattoos tell a story, then I guess you could say that mine started this past Saturday. It was my first tattoo. Getting ink done was something I’ve always considered, but chronic indecision and a seemingly permanent deficit to my funds stood in my way. After almost two years of this passive (if not lazy) quest for a tattoo, I decided to take action.

The Middle East/South Asia Studies program has come a long way in its evolution. Thanks to ME/SA, UC Davis offers more courses about the region in comparative literature, political science, history, art history, music and languages – includingHebrew, Arabic and Hindi/Urdu – than ever before.

California Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi will speak at a rally on campus today at noon in Freeborn Plaza, between the UC Davis Bookstoreand Freeborn Hall. Garamendi, who announced his bid for governor in 2010 over the summer, will speak about what it means to be a Democrat as well as his support for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.

Alice Kim was smokin‘ this week in Colorado. The sophomore shot a school-record67on Monday,and followed that performance with a4-under68on Tuesday to tie for second place at the Heather Farr Memorial Invitational.