University of Iowa graduating gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer (GLBTQ) students and their allies are invited to the UI Rainbow Graduation 2012, an annual celebration at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 8, in the Old Capitol Senate Chamber. Though free, registration is requested by Tuesday, May 1.

Video of President Barack Obama's complete April 25 speech at the University of Iowa Field House.

Iowa artist Barbara Fedeler will lead a gallery talk Thursday, April 26, at 6:30 p.m. in the Hanson Family Humanities Gallery at the University of Iowa Old Capitol Museum. The talk is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

The University of Iowa Department of Computer Science will host the 2012 Hawkeye Challenge Programming Competition for high school students from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 28, in MacLean Hall on the UI campus.

The Women’s Chorale and Camerata of the University of Iowa School of Music will share a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 4, in the Riverside Recital Hall.

The University of Iowa Biological Interests Society (UI BIO) will hold a Plant Sale from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, May 1, on the Kautz Plaza, located on the T. Anne Cleary Walkway between Calvin Hall and the Pappajohn Business Building.

“Insects: A Collection in Multiple Dimensions”—featuring artwork by University of Iowa graduate student Kevin Chamberlain—opens May 3 at 5 p.m. in the UI Pentacrest Museums Gallery for the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences at the Old Capitol Museum.

The back-story of Mayberry, a play commissioned by Hancher that looks at race relations in Iowa City. Playwright Sean Christopher Lewis is a 2007 graduate of the UI Playwrights Workshop and lives in Iowa City. The soldout show runs April 26-29 at Riverside Theatre in Iowa City.

Ed Callaway of the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, La Jolla, Calif., will be the featured speaker at the Sixth Raymond Fong Memorial Lecture at 4 p.m. Friday, April 27, in Kollros Auditorium, Biology Building East on the University of Iowa campus.

The University of Iowa’s Hancher will present the Enso String Quartet on Friday, May 4 at 7:30 p.m. at Zion Lutheran Church in Iowa City. The concert is the culmination of Hancher’s “Caps Off to Nurses” program, which shares classical music in healthcare settings as a way to thank nurses.

Graduate students in the UI School of Urban and Regional Planning are helping the community think smarter about energy.

A semester-long storytelling project will take place the day after the play 'Mayberry' concludes its successful run in Iowa City.