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It was 60 percent humidity. Water dripped down the walls of the building with an abundance of plants from all around the world. A loud noise reverberated within the room, sounding like something that could easily pass for a velociraptor. No, this wasn’t Jurassic Park. It was the third floor of the Sciences Laboratory building in UC Davis’ campus teaching greenhouse.

TODAY: Arboretum Writers in the Garden: Dorine Jennette; Eighteenth Annual Eugene Lunn Memorial Lecture.

TODAY Arboretum Folk Music Jam Session Noon Wyatt Deck, Old Davis Road Pull out your fiddles, guitars, mandolins and penny whistles! You are invited to an informal acoustic jam session. Meat Lab Sale 1 to 5:30 p.m. Cole C Facility

TODAY Meat Lab Sale 1 to 5:30 p.m. Cole C Facility The UC Davis Meat Lab offers sales that are open to the public every Thursday and Friday afternoon. Only cash and checks are accepted. Biomedical Engineering Seminar 4 p.m.

UC Davis has always been known as a bike-friendly campus. What is less known, however, is that the campus is also friendly to the disabled community. Wheelchair users as well as blind students said that in general, the campus has few physical barriers that make getting around difficult. Nevertheless, they report that additional changes and a more educated community are necessary to make the campus even more accommodating to disabled students.

The UC Davis campus alone is home to over 10,000 trees, not including the Arboretum, with new species being planted regularly. For some students they provide shade or a place to hangout. For everyone, they provide oxygen. And though some of the trees have been around as long as the school, their origins are not widely known. In support of the trees and their stories, The California Aggie sat down with senior landscape architect Skip Mezger and assistant landscape architect Christina De Martini Reye to get the dirt on these campus giants. Tree: Cork Oak

TODAY Reading by Frank B. Wilderson III of Red, White & Black Noon to 1:30 p.m. 101 Wright Listen to Wilderson talk about his book, which critiques socially engaged films and the theories that ground them. Reading by Karma Waltonen 7 to 8:30 p.m. Bistro 33, 226 F St. Find out more about Wiltonen’s new book, The Simpsons in the Classroom with a Q&A period and book signing after the presentation. Free Showing of Uganda Documentary 7:15 p.m. 80 Social Science Invisible Children invite you to watch a short documentary on the war in Uganda and discuss big events for next year. UC Davis Film Festival 8:30 p.m. Davis Varsity Theatre, 616 Second St.

TODAY: Reading by John Smolenski; Think like an Entrepreneur: Lessons in Innovation for your Career; Reading by Frank B. Wilderson III of Incognegro; Public Health Club Meeting; Arboretum: Writers in the Garden.

With an abundance of restaurants bombarding downtown Davis, it is not surprising that Taste of Thai manages to sprout above the weeds of other Thai restaurants.

TODAY: Project Compost; Southeast Asian Graduation Meeting.

After a year of fundraising, recruiting and preparing, the Global Medical Brigades at UC Davis (GMB) is almost ready for its first week-long venture to Honduras.

TODAY Meat Lab Sale 1 to 5:30 p.m. Cole C Facility The UC Davis Meat Lab offers sales that are open to the public every Thursday and Friday afternoon. Only cash and checks are accepted. Ann Foley Scheuring Book Signing 7:30 p.m. Logos Books, 523 Second St. Ask Ann Foley Scheuring questions about her latest book Valley Empires and get your book signed! Local Tones: Fellowship of the Sing