Math and science conference for girls: March 25
Mount St. Mary's College in Los Angeles will host hundreds of middle school girls from throughout Los Angeles at the Expanding Your Horizons in Science and Mathematics Career Conference March 25. Girls in grades five through eight will take part in hands-on workshops, including opportunities to dissect pig hearts and isolate DNA. They can choose from workshops in fields such as veterinary medicine, civil engineering, theoretical physics and chemistry. A separate program for parents, teachers and counselors includes workshops on how to nurture young scientists and how to obtain financial aid for college expenses. The conference takes place on the Doheny Campus, 10 Chester Place near downtown. The fee is $10 per person. To register, visit www.ExpandingYourHorizonsLA.org.

Rally and Mass for immigrants: March 25 and 26
Thousands of supporters of humane and comprehensive immigration reform are expected to convene at Broadway and Olympic Streets in Los Angeles March 25 at 10 a.m. for a march to City Hall and a subsequent rally. Marchers are opposing a H.R. 4437, a bill that would make illegal presence in the U.S. a felony and would also criminalize those who aid undocumented immigrants. For more information, call CARECEN at (213) 385-7800 ext. 162.

On March 26 the United Farm Workers will hold a rally for humane immigration reform at the Los Angeles Federal Building, 300 N. Los Angeles Street at 1 p.m. Participants will then process to the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, 555 West Temple St., for the 6th Annual Archdiocesan Mass in Memory of Cesar E. Chavez, the celebrated farm worker labor leader. San Gabriel Region Auxiliary Bishop Gabino Zavala will preside at the commemoration beginning at 3:30 p.m. For information, call the archdiocesan Office of Justice and Peace, (213) 637-7690.

Mass in memory of Terri Schiavo: March 30
St. Dominic Church in Eagle Rock will host a one-year memorial Mass in memory of Theresa "Terri" Schindler-Schiavo on March 30, at 6 p.m. "We are honored to be holding this type of service," said parishioner Theresa de Vera, a friend of the Schindler family. "Bounded by our faith, and in the Season of Lent, we need to make a statement that all life is sacred." Schindler-Schiavo died March 31, 2005 in Pinellas Park, Fla., after a Florida judge ordered the brain-damaged woman's feeding tube to be removed. St. Dominic Church is located at 2002 Merton Ave., Eagle Rock. For information, call (323) 254-2519.