After three years on view at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, where it had been since a flood devastated the University of Iowa campus, Jackson Pollock's Mural is heading to the Des Moines Art Center. The story includes links to Tim Schoon's Iowa Now slideshow of the process.

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.

UI Health Care is hosting 11 simulcast sessions of TEDMED, an event gathering 1,300 adventurous thinkers and doers from 300 medical and nonmedical disciplines April 10-13 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

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.

New rock-fracturing technology has brought oil boom times to North Dakota. However, a UI researcher says the roads leading to the state’s oil riches may be paved with a potential health hazard.

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.

It’s now official. Des Moines is the formal site of a regional branch campus for the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. A recent agreement between the Des Moines Area Medical Education Consortium and the UI Carver College of Medicine cements the arrangement for the next 10 years.

A UI expert will explore the unprecedented financial crises affecting America’s middle class in a free public lecture presented by the UI Alumni Association on April 24 in Des Moines.

How is science fiction film imagined outside of the U.S.? Find out at Visions of the Future, a global science fiction film conference.