The Adult Swim Carnival Tour is bringing live music, wacky games, and an assortment of prizes from the cable network to Hubbard Park on Monday, April 9.

The University of Iowa is celebrating Earth Month throughout April with numerous activities including a waste sort, tree plantings, sustainability-related presentations and movies, and a ride-your-bike-to-work/class campus day.

Iowa artist Judy Bales will lead a workshop on making art from everyday materials on Saturday, April 14, at 1 p.m. in the Old Capitol Museum at the University of Iowa. The workshop, for individuals 18 and older, requires prior registration by calling the Old Capitol Museum, 319-335-0548.

As part of Earth Month 2012, the University of Iowa Office of Sustainability and UI Recreational Services will present a free screening of environmental education film Mother Nature's Child at 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 10, in the Illinois Room (348) of the Iowa Memorial Union.

University of Iowa Children's Hospital in Iowa City will host an open house event to introduce its Fragile X Clinic from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 14 at the Center for Disabilities and Development, 100 Hawkins Drive.

Science fiction scholars and a renowned filmmaker will join host Joan Kjaer for a Friday, April 13 WorldCanvass program at 5 p.m. in the Old Capitol Senate Chamber on the University of Iowa campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Walk It Out, a multicultural fashion show that will tout both domestic and international diversity, will be held Saturday, April 7, in the Iowa Memorial Union Main Lounge.

Become part of Iowa City’s most spot-tacular community art installation! Just Do(t) Art is a month-long, community-based collaborative art installation, which will be open for public participation April 6-May 4 at hotelVetro in downtown Iowa City.

University staff and faculty are accomplishing great things every day. See who’s making news with awards, publications, promotion and tenure, and more.

Deidra Franzen Baker, the UI College of Education's 2012 Yager Educational Accomplishment Honor recipient, and education professor Bonnie Sunstein will present “Math in the Margins: Expanding the Five-Minute Universe with Geometry and Writing” at 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 11, in the Teacher Leader Center, N140 Lindquist Center.

Don "The Fossil Guy" Johnson returns to the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History in April with educational programs at 2 p.m. on Saturday afternoons.

It's severe weather season again. Charles Green, director of the UI Department of Public Safety, reminds the UI community how to stay safe during the diciest of storms.

MusicIC 2012, Iowa City’s summer classical music festival, returns for a second year with a week-long series of concerts and other events June 10-16. This year’s festival includes more musicians, a concert and scavenger hunt for families, and an ambitious attempt to theatricalize one of the concerts.

New software developed by UI student and faculty will aid in preparations for evacuation during future floods.

An ingrained commitment to strong forestry practices and opportunities for students has earned the UI renewed recognition from the Arbor Day Foundation.

Actuaries are expected to be in demand in coming years. But what do actuaries do? Beyond something that involves math and insurance, explanations always seem mysterious and bizarre, something that only other practitioners of actuarial science can really understand.

Alec Scranton, newly appointed engineering dean, is a fifth-generation Iowan and a University of Iowa alumnus.

The UIMA@IMU will be closed Easter Sunday, April 8. A visual classroom of the University of Iowa Museum of Art, the UIMA@IMU is located in the third floor Richey Ballroom of the UI’s Iowa Memorial Ballroom.

The life and legacy of Bill Sacker will be celebrated on what would have been his 99th birthday Friday, April 13.

Death notices for current and retired UI employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available.