Americans for UNFPA, the official U.S. support organization for the United Nations Population Fund, is holding an essay contest for college students on the topic of "health and dignity of women." The winner will receive an expense-paid trip to Malawi from July 29 to Aug. 4, with Americans for UNFPA staff, to observe women's income generation projects, visit maternity hospital clinics, observe innovative HIV prevention outreach, and meet with members of Malawi's Parliament. Applicants must be eligible to vote in the U.S. and must be an undergraduate student enrolled full time at a U.S. institution. Submission deadline: March 1. For details and to download an application, go to www.americansforunfpa.org.

HAPPENING

MEET AUTHOR WHO TOLD PHOTOS' STORIES

Historian Ann Weiss is in town to talk about her book "The Last Album: Eyes from the Ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau" (Jewish Publication Society, $40). While on a tour of Auschwitz in 1986, Weiss discovered a cache of more than 2,000 photographs that had been confiscated from Jews in 1943, and locked up for more than 40 years. Over the next decade, Weiss researched and interviewed survivors to identify the photo subjects. The result is her book and a documentary of the same name. You can see her at 6 p.m. Sunday, at Spalding Auditorium, University of Hawai'i; 7:30 p.m. Monday at Chabad-Lubavitch of Hawaii (410 Atkinson Drive, 945-3808); and 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Paliku Theatre, Windward Community College. For details: 591-1111.

— Lesa Griffith

FINAL WORD

"She was a much better dancer than I am."

Sienna Miller | the actress on Edie Sedgwick, whom she plays in "Factory Girl," in New York magazine