The University of Iowa Department of Dance will present Mind the Gap, a production featuring the thesis works of four graduate students, at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, April 12-14, in the Space Place Theatre of North Hall.

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.

The University of Iowa field hockey team's 2012 spring season has a bit more international flair than usual, as four UI standouts are competing for respective national teams around the globe.

UI religious studies professor Ahmed Souaiaia writes about Obama's attempts to communicate directly with the Iranian people.

A class offered this spring by the University of Iowa is helping entrepreneurs from around the state learn how to take their businesses global.

Veteran, actor, and writer Benjamin Bush will read from his new memoir at 7 p.m. Monday, April 2, in a free Prairie Lights reading streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website www.writinguniversity.org.

Each year, 20 University of Iowa juniors are selected to receive the $5,200 renewable award from the Carver Trust. Part of the criteria is having overcome significant social and economic hardship while showing great potential and promise. Here are the stories of three Carver Scholarship recipients.

Stephen J. Rapp, the ambassador-at-large heading the Office of Global Criminal Justice in the U.S. Department of State, will discuss "Diplomacy for Global Justice: The tools for establishing truth, accountability and reconciliation after the commission of mass atrocities" at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 3, in the Iowa Memorial Union.

Eddie Etsey will serve as co-emcee of the Celebrating Cultural Diversity Festival this weekend. It's one of many roles the alumnus from Ghana plays on the UI campus.

Italian pianist Enrico Elisi, a guest of the University of Iowa School of Music, will present a free recital at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 4, in the Riverside Recital Hall.

Jim Yong Kim, President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the World Bank, is a former student of the University of Iowa and son of a onetime member of the College of Dentistry faculty.

The Bijou Cinema will hold a free screening of The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 27. The film celebrates the resilience of the Japanese people in the aftermath of the 2011 tsunami and the healing power of Japan's most beloved flower as the cherry blossom season begins.