LECTURES AND DRUMMING FOR MALARIA AWARENESS: UC Davis' second annual Malaria Awareness Day is set for April 25, with a program that is half symposium and half entertainment. The event is scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. in the University Club Lounge, with admission free and open to the public.

Organizers listed the keynote speaker as Baba Jallow, a UC Davis doctoral student in African history, and said he will talk about living in a malaria-endemic country, his native Gambia. Also on the program: A talk by Lisa Reimer, an entomology doctoral student who researches mosquito resistance to insecticides; a 15-minute video, Malaria: Killer Number One, about the challenges and impact of malaria in Ethiopia; and information and discussion on how the public can help fight malaria.

For entertainment, the organizers announced a performance of African dumming by Faso Baara, a group led by master dancer and drummer Mamodou Sow of Davis, professionally trained in his native Senegal.

CUTTING AUTO EMISSIONS: UC Davis' Institute of Transportation Studies and the state Air Resources Board are co-sponsoring an April 21 symposium on strategies for meeting California's 2020 targets for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions from passenger vehicles.

The public event is scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Byron Sher Auditorium, California Environmental Protection Agency headquarters, 1001 I St., Sacramento. A webcast is planned: calepa.ca.gov/broadcast.

POLITICS AND PRIVACY: Privacy in the information age is the topic for an evening talk presented by the School of Law; the Center for History, Society and Culture; and the Institute of Governmental Affairs.

The talk by Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of The Anarchist in the Library, is scheduled from 5:30 to 8 p.m. April 22 in the Wilkins Moot Courtroom in King Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Vaidhyanathan's topic: "What We Talk About When We Talk About Privacy: The Politics of Mass Surveillance and Profiling."

The speaker is a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for the Future of the Book, and an associate professor of media studies and the law at the University of Virginia.

SCIENCE WRITING, PART 3: The three-part series Science Writing for the General Public is scheduled to conclude April 22 with a presentation by Gary Marcus: "Kluge: The Haphazard Human Mind," from 4:10 to 6 p.m. in 126 Voorhies Hall.

Marcus, a psychology professor and the director of the Infant Language Learning Center at New York University, researches developmental cognitive neuroscience, and writes about it for both academic and popular publications.

His books include Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind and The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought.

More information is available from Amy Clarke, (530) 752-9531 or amclarke@ucdavis.edu.

THE BUSINESS OF WINE: Grape grower Andy Beckstoffer is listed as the next speaker in the Department of Viticulture and Enology's Walt Klenz Lecture Series on Wine Business.

Beckstoffer's talk is set to begin at 4 p.m. April 29 in the Studio Theatre at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, followed by a wine reception in the same place.

Organizers said Beckstoffer will address the business of grapes, wine and agricultural land, emphasizing the importance of preserving natural resources without sacrificing industry growth.

The program is free and open to the public. People planning to attend are asked to arrange reservations by April 21.

For more information or to arrange reservations, contact Tiffany Hodgens (530) 754-8368 or tmhodgens@ucdavis.edu.

All seminars and colloquia: calendar.ucdavis.edu