The University of Iowa is presenting "A Deeper Black: Race in America," a lecture by Ta-Nehisi Coates, a national correspondent with The Atlantic and author of “The Beautiful Struggle,” on Wednesday, Feb. 25, at the Englert Theatre. At the conclusion of the lecture, Coates will moderate a community conversation.

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In March, the University of Iowa Alumni Association will be holding a special Lifelong Learning presentation in Davenport featuring UI President Sally Mason called “The University for Iowa: A Legacy of Service and Engagement,” which celebrates the UI’s proud, three-century history of teaching, research, and community enhancement.

With the click of just a few buttons on a smartphone, TraumaHawk enables state troopers to share photos and information from a crash scene with trauma doctors long before a patient arrives in the emergency room.

As the undergraduate dean in the Henry B. Tippie College of Business, Ken Brown draws on his experience as a father. Every day he strives to make Tippie the kind of place where his young daughters would have a great educational experience and be successful.

American employers are hiring again, and that economic improvement means another record number of organizations will be represented at this spring’s career fair, with hundreds of jobs, internships, and other career opportunities waiting for University of Iowa students on Wednesday, Feb. 25, in the Iowa Memorial Union.

A spring semester course required of all first-year students in the Tippie School of Management’s full-time M.B.A. program givens them an opportunity to gain experience by working with real-life clients on real-life business challenges.

The University of Iowa’s premier touring repertory company, Dancers in Company, splashes onto campus with its hugely popular home concert at 8 p.m., Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 26-28, in Space Place Theater.

How do we best prepare the next generation of drivers? That topic will be the focus of the upcoming Hawkeye Lunch and Learn event, as Corinne Peek-Asa presents “Steering Teens Safe: How Research Has Informed Best Practices for New Drivers.” The event will be held at noon, Wednesday, March 4, in the Iowa Memorial Union Iowa Theater.

Commenting on a West Virginia oil train derailment and fire, Albert Ratner, University of Iowa associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, says that trains carrying oil through populated areas pose a high risk of disaster.

Jackson Pollock’s Mural, considered by many to be the most important modern American painting ever made, is trying out a new medium: motion pictures.

The University of Iowa College of Education recently celebrated a major fundraising milestone, reaching its goal of raising $30 million. The fundraising campaign, part of the university-wide campaign "For Iowa. Forever More," started in 2008 and will end in December 2016.