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8:30 a.m. to 9:20 a.m., Anderson 22 [HTML_REMOVED] Wet tropics: The paradox of not enough water [HTML_REMOVED] The Water Center Seminar; speaker: Kristina Vogt, College of Forest Resources

1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., HUB 200C [HTML_REMOVED] Workshop: Money 101 [HTML_REMOVED] Money 101 can help you get on the right financial track [HTML_REMOVED] and if you're already on the right track, give you new pointers and tips. Students who attend Student Fiscal Services' Money 101 seminars say they come away with at least one new resource and/or concept! The session covers a wide range of money management topics, including credit reporting and scoring, credit cards, developing a spending plan (otherwise known as a budget), and identity theft. Featuring representatives from Student Fiscal Services.

2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Fisheries 108 [HTML_REMOVED] Puget Sound: The next generation [HTML_REMOVED] A discussion of recommendations to revitalize and ramp up protection and restoration of the Puget Sound. This series encourages communication among scientists, students and others interested in the complex interactions of oceans and human health. Speakers and articles will bridge disciplines, highlight cross-cutting issues, and expand awareness of the role of our oceans on human health. Everyone interested in those topics is welcome to attend. Tonight's speaker will be Brad Ack from the Puget Sound Action Team.

4 p.m. to 5 p.m., Physics and Astronomy Building A-102 [HTML_REMOVED] Prescribed Active Learning Increases Performance in Introductory Biology [HTML_REMOVED] Current efforts to improve college science education at U.S. universities have focused on two goals: 1) encouraging faculty to apply the same hypothesis-testing framework in their teaching as in their benchwork and fieldwork, and 2) recruiting and retaining more underrepresented minorities and students from disadvantaged backgrounds in science and technology majors. Come and learn about the methods schools are using to meet these goals.

7 p.m., University Book Store [HTML_REMOVED] John Keeble and Kathleen Flenniken present the Prairie Schooner Award winners [HTML_REMOVED] Two local writers won the fiction and poetry Prairie Schooner awards this year, and to celebrate their achievements, we've invited them to read at the store. John Keeble (winner for fiction) and Kathleen Flenniken (winner for poetry) will stop by to let us bask in their prize-winning glow.

7:30 p.m., Meany Theater [HTML_REMOVED] "Icons:" Wind Ensemble, Symphonic, Campus, & Concert Bands [HTML_REMOVED] Carter Penn's "Slalom," John Barnes Chance's "Variations on a Korean Folk Song," Percy Grainger's "Country Gardens," Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Folk Song Suite," and John Philip Sousa's "Thunderer" march are among the works on the program. $10 all tickets, at the door or in advance from UW Arts Ticket Office: (206) 543-4880 or online at www.music.washington.edu.

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Jacob Lawrence Gallery, 132 Art Building [HTML_REMOVED] Exhibit Opening: Works on Paper and Small 3-D [HTML_REMOVED] Juried exhibit of work by School of Art undergraduate and graduate artists.

8 a.m. to 9 a.m., Health Sciences D-209 [HTML_REMOVED] Cervical Cancer Screening in the Era of the HPV Vaccine [HTML_REMOVED] Speaker is Nancy B. Kiviat, UW professor of pathology and director of Pathology/Cytopathology at Harborview Medical Center. Sponsored by UW Obstetrics and Gynecology.

3:30 p.m., Mary Gates Hall 248 [HTML_REMOVED] Baltic Lecture Series: Estonian-Russian Relations in the 1990s [HTML_REMOVED] This lecture is offered as part of the Baltic History course (HSTEU 454) with Dr. Guntis I. Smidchens, and is open to the public. The course concentrates on the history of the area occupied by the Baltic countries of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, emphasizing their emergence as modern European nation-states. The era from World War I to present is treated in depth, including the historical role and present situation of non-Baltic peoples, particularly Russians.

7:30 p.m., Brechemin Auditorium, School of Music [HTML_REMOVED] Jazz Innovations, Part 1 [HTML_REMOVED] A variety of small ensembles perform works by Pat Metheny and Miles Davis, as well as student-composed and student-arranged works and jazz standards. Cost: $5 all tickets, at the door only, cash or check.

7:30 p.m., Meany Theater [HTML_REMOVED] Songs of Life and Love: Chamber Singers & University Chorale [HTML_REMOVED] The Chamber Singers (Geoffrey Boers, conductor) and University Chorale (Giselle Wyers, conductor) present a concert about the enigmatic mystery of love, featuring repertoire of courtship, desire, union, and tragedy, written from both the female and male perspectives. $10 all tickets, at the door or in advance from UW Arts Ticket Office: (206) 543-4880 or online at www.music.washington.edu.

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7 p.m. to 7:30 p.m,, Kane 130 [HTML_REMOVED] America's Arctic: Is It For Sale? An Evening With Subhankar Banerjee [HTML_REMOVED] Development threats to America's Arctic wilderness go beyond the bounds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Further development supersedes new ways to address our growing energy needs while the last wild places on earth may be sacrificed forever. Subhankar Banerjee will be presenting new photographic work from his travels in the Arctic in 2006. Admission is free.

7:30 p.m., Brechemin Auditorium, School of Music [HTML_REMOVED] Jazz Innovations, Part 2 [HTML_REMOVED] "Waiting for Benitez" by jazz studies faculty member Dave Marriott will be premiered. School of Music jazz faculty coaches include Marc Seales, Tom Collier, Phil Sparks, Joe Santiago, and Marriott. Cost: $5 all tickets, at the door only, cash or check.

7:30 p.m., Meany Studio Theatre [HTML_REMOVED] Faculty Dance Concert [HTML_REMOVED] The Dance Program opens its annual performance season with a concert featuring work and performances by its nationally recognized faculty. The concert features group works by Mark Haim, Jarg Koch, guest artists Jim Hansen and Fritha Pengelly, and a duet featuring Dance Program director Betsy Cooper and visiting lecturer Dominique Gabella. Tickets are $18 for the public, $16 for UWAA members and UW faculty/staff, and $10 for students and seniors.