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TODAY Hunger lunch 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Silo back patio The lunch, sponsored by Nourish International, will be an all-you-can-eat meal of rice, beans and cornbread.

Imagine looking through a clear plastic glass,filled with water.Now replace that water with milk.This is the world through the eyes of someone with a cataract.But with a$50surgical procedure,this blur can be restored to the clarity of water. Jasdeep Manik,a junior neurobiology,physiology and behavior major,traveled to India in December to assist with these cataract operations.She went as a volunteer with Unite for Sight,anonprofit aimed at promoting international eye care and assistance.

Fish are important to Peter Moyle,and he would argue they’re important to you too. The UC Davis professor of wildlife,fish and conservation biology has dedicated his entire adult life to studying the ecology of freshwater fish.A Minnesota native,Moyle is a nationally known conservation expert and prolific author of106peer-reviewedpapers and five books.He also serves on numerous committees associated with managing the San Francisco Estuary.

Want to go to summer camp, ride horsesor play on a playground and get paid to do it? The City of Davis Community Services Department is holding its Recreational Job Fair on Wednesday, January 28 from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Multipurpose room in the VeteransMemorial Center on 203 East 14th St.

TODAY Picnic Day booth lottery Picnicday.ucdavis.edu Student organizations that are interested in having a booth on Picnic Day need to sign up with SPAC by today. There will be a lottery for a limited number of booths tomorrow. Visit picnicday.ucdavis.edu for more information.

UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz are the only UC schools with their own fire departments.

For an escape from the typical café snobbery,Cloud Forest Café serves up a delightful blend of culinary freshness andfriendly ambiance. Expansive windows line the front of the café on D Street,and local artists‘ paintings and vintage coffee burlap sacks adorn the surrounding walls.The atmosphere is entirely unlike that of the dark,cave-like Mishka’s,and with fewer future-prize-winning-poets-slash-antisocial-computer-junkies pecking away at their laptops.

TODAY Texas Hold ‘Em Poker Tournament 6 to 8 p.m. Griffin Lounge, MU Get there early; seats fill up quickly. Must be there by 6 p.m. If you’re one of the top 30 players, you could end up in the tournament of champions!

TODAY Australia: Urban to Outback Noon to 1 p.m. Conference Room, Education Abroad Center, 207 Third St. Learn about a summer 2009 study abroad opportunity!

Most students in Davis hail from the San Francisco Bay Area or the Central Valley, while a sizable number come from the “distant lands” of Los Angeles and San Diego. But a large and growing number – 2,500 students, according to the Education Abroad Center – come from other countries.

Two years of research were thrown out in a few days – by an11-year-old. Gabriel Leal,a sixth-grader at Willet Elementary School in Davis,needed to create a science project forWillet’s Open House and Science Fair/Family Science Night in April.Gabriel’s father,Walter Leal,a UC Davis professor of entomology,suggested that Gabriel study mosquitoes.Gabriel,however,decided tostudy the navel orangeworm,an agricultural pest,and its preference for nuts.Prior to Gabriel’s experiment,Professor Leal’s research was based on a paper published in California Agriculture stating that the NOW moth preferred almonds to other types of nuts.

TODAY Italy: Renaissance Florence and the Birth of Modern Europe Noon to 1 p.m. Conference Room, Education Abroad Center, 207 Third St. Learn about a summer 2009 study abroad opportunity!