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cholarships ranging from $1,000 to $5,000 are available for aspiring Hispanic engineers through the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers.

The deadline for the Advancing Hispanic Excellence in Technology, Engineering, Math and Science scholarships is Apr. 1 and undergraduate and graduate students interested are encouraged to complete applications available on SHPE's website.

Students awarded the scholarship money can use it for a variety of education expenses, such as books or tuition, said Rafaela Schwan, director of programs for AHETEMS.

For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology will be hosting the third annual UC Davis robotics competition as a qualifier for the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) national robotics competition Mar. 20 to 22.

Approximately 40 teams from Northern California, averaging 20 high school students per team, will be competing in this weekend's event.

In addition to being an exciting event to watch, the event brings a number of talented and motivated high school students to campus, said Karen McDonald, director of the UC Davis engineering program and event coordinator, in an e-mail interview.

The next bald person you see might be trying to raise cancer awareness. St. Baldrick's Foundation will be hosting a head-shaving event today at the UC Davis Cancer Center from 5 to 8 p.m.

St. Baldrick's is a nonprofit organization that raises money for children's cancer research throughout the year. Participants raise money through donations and shave their heads to raise awareness for children who have cancer and may be going through chemotherapy. This year will be the fifth consecutive year that a St. Baldrick's event takes place at UC Davis, organized by the Keaton Raphael Memorial.

UC Davis Cancer Center researchers have found a probable explanation for some tumor cells' resistance to the breast cancer drug trastuzumab, commonly known by its designer name Herceptin.

Herceptin targets the protein HER2, which is a receptor of tyrosine kinase, an enzyme that encourages cancer cell growth.

In a Mar. 1 study published in Cancer Research by David Shattuck, Jamie K. Miller, Kermit L. Carraway III and Colleen Sweeney, initial results conclude that another molecule known as a MET receptor can act similarly to HER2 in some HER2-positive breast cancer patients, thus inhibiting Herceptin's effectiveness.

Peter J. Shields Library's national ranking has plunged as a result of a lack of funding over the last fifteen years, according to a report released by UC Davis' unionized librarians.

University Council-American Federation Teachers (UC-AFT) Davis Local 2023, a union of UC Davis lecturers and librarians, released a fact sheet titled The UC Davis University Library is in Trouble, claiming that even though the campus has grown, the library's adjusted budget has remained virtually unchanged.

Ever wonder if your place in society is affecting your health?

The relationship between social class and health will be the topic of a documentary preview screening and panel discussion on campus tonight. The documentary, directed by Larry Adelman, is titled Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? It focuses on the disparity in health between the working class and the upper class.

The documentary screening and panel discussion will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. in 180 Medical Science Building 1C. The screening is free and open to the public, although attendance for the entire conference is $20 for students.

Students for Justice in Palestine held a die-in Wednesday at noon on the Quad as a response to the recent five-day Israeli military siege in the Gaza Strip.

As 23 students lay down on the pavement, SJP president spoke about what he called the New Holocaust.

Our primary goal is to raise awareness of what's going on in the Gaza Strip, said Nawal Wahhab, junior biological psychology major.

When riding through a round-a-bout during rush hour it's clear that UC Davis is a campus unlike any other. With more bikes in the city than cars, planners must raise their standards for facilities.

For this reason the UC Davis Office of Resource Management and Planning began plans to renovate the bike paths, transit routes, round-a-bouts and sidewalks in Tuesday's UC Davis Bikeway and Transit Planning Public Workshop.

By appointing a renowned expert in education and social issues for children with high-functioning autism, UC Davis officials aim to make the university a leader in the field.

Developmental and clinical psychologist Peter Mundy brings over 25 years of experience to his dual post as the Lisa Capps chair for neurodevelopmental disorders and education in the UC Davis School of Education and director of educational research at the UC Davis MIND Institute.

For the first time at UC Davis, two types of imaging - positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) - have been combined into a single scanner.

Both are medical imaging techniques used to see inside the body. MRIs use radio waves to excite the water molecules in the body to show a detailed image of the body but do not show how the body part is functioning, explains Simon Cherry, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Molecular and Genomic Imaging.