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For Immediate Release:	December 8, 2000
Contact: Jim Manke - University Relations 956-6106

Events at UH Campuses for the Week of Dec. 10-16

Hawai'i Ballet Theatre kicks off its holiday performance of the classic "The Nutcracker Ballet." Dec. 10, 16, 17 and 19. Leeward CC Theatre. Call 455-0385 or visit www.lcc.hawaii.edu for more information.

Dec. 11-15: Final exams for UH students.

Dr. Luke Flynn of the UH Manoa Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology will give the free lecture "NASA Pacific Regional Planetary Data Center: Real-Time Observations of Eruptions and Fires from Space." 7:30 p.m. Dec. 12. Sinclair Library Basement Room 6, UH Manoa. For more information, call Chris Peterson at 956-3131. Visit apollo-society.org/lecture_series.html.

Dr. Stephen Hecht of the University of Minnesota Cancer Center will present the UH Manoa Cancer Research seminar "Tobacco Smoke Carcinogens and Lung Cancer." Noon Dec. 14. 1236 Lauhala Street, CRCH 501. For more information, call Wendy Mitchell at 586-3010 or e-mail wendy@crch.hawaii.edu.

The UH Manoa Art Gallery presents its annual graduate student exhibition of multimedia works. "Beyond Soap" includes paintings, ceramics, glass, sculpture and electronic media created by graduate students in the UH Manoa Art Department. Now-Dec. 15. UH Manoa Art Gallery. Admission is free. For more information, call 956-6888.

The East-West Center Gallery features an exhibition of work by contemporary Native Hawaiian artists from Hawai'i and throughout the world. "Mai Na Kupuna Mai, Ho'i I Ka Pu 'olo," or "That which comes from the ancestors is returned as gifts," is running now-Dec. 22. East-West Center Gallery, John A. Burns Hall, UH Manoa. For information, call 944-7341.

"Korean Masks from the Ryun Namkoong Collection" features more than 100 traditional Korean masks used in dance-dramas, shaman rituals and carnivals. Now-Dec. 29. Exhibition viewing times: 1 p.m.-4 p.m. Sundays, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesdays, noon-3 p.m. Fridays. John Young Museum of Art, Krauss Hall 002, UH Manoa. Free. For information, call Outreach College at 956-8866 or visit www.outreach.hawaii.edu/JYMuseum.

For the latest on the University of Hawai'i, check the Web site events calendar at www.hawaii.edu.

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