• Tracy and Ruth Storer Lectureship in the Life Sciences -- April 8 & 9, 180 Med Sci Bldg C, UC Davis. University of Massachusetts professor emeritus Daniel Hillel, an internationally known soil and water scientist, will give two lectures at 4:10 p.m.: "Civilization and the Life of the Soil" on Monday, April 8, and "The Struggle for Water and the Quest for Peace in the Middle East" on Tuesday, April 9. Media contact: Dennis Rolston, Land, Air & Water Resourses, (916) 752-2113, or Jan Hopmans, Land, Air & Water Resourses, 752-3060. • Olympic Nutrition Symposium -- April 15, Convention Center, Washington, D.C. Former Olympic athletes including Billy Mills and Bruce Baumgartner will join scientists to examine the relationship between the Olympic Games and nutrition science. The symposium, titled "Nutritional and Physical Performance: a Century of Progress and Tribute to the Modern Olympic Movement," is coordinated by UC Davis nutrition professor Louis Grivetti as part of the International Experimental Biology '96 meeting. Media contact: Patricia Bailey, News Service, (916) 752-9843, pjbailey@ucdavis.edu.. • Neurobehavioral Teratology Society -- June 23-26, Keystone, Colo. Researchers will discuss the latest findings about effects of drugs and environmental chemicals on brain development in fetuses and infants, including updates on the effects of cocaine and Prozac. Media contact: Mari Golub, adjunct professor in the UC Davis medical school, (916) 752-5119, msgolub@ucdavis.edu. • Symbiosis 96! -- Sept. 5-8, Bar Harbor, Maine. UC Davis faculty and students will be among the investigators who meet to discuss papers applying modern techniques to research of diverse symbiotic associations. Media contacts: co-organizers Paul Baumann, UC Davis microbiology, (916) 752-0272, pabaumann@ucdavis.edu, or Scott O'Neill, Yale epidemiology and public health, (203) 785-3285, Scott-Oneill@quickmail.yale.edu; http://wolbachia.med.yale.edu/.