From Bettendorf, Camanche, and Elkader to Jamaica and Rome, far-flung corners of the world have found their way into the names of Iowa cities and towns. At the second annual Iowa Humanities Festival, scholars from across the state will share the connections present between Iowa and the globe.

David Michael Ryfe will be the next director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

UI cello professor Anthony Arnone has teamed up with pianist Grethe Nöthling, a musical arts doctoral student at UI, to offer a series of free concerts for small audiences in people's homes around the state.

Advanced patient simulators help University of Iowa College of Nursing students master clinical skills, but they can't replace the human element needed to learn consultation and teaching. That's where community volunteers come in.

A University of Iowa Alumni Association event April 22 focuses on what children learn by watching television and other media.

The new UI Mobile Museum, sponsored by the Old Capitol Museum, Museum of Natural History, and Office of the State Archaeologist, features exhibits about Iowa's ice age mammals, the founding of Iowa, and the state's "ancient agriculturalists" based in the Loess Hills.

UI alumnus and craft-chocolate maker Michael Mast will speak about his new cookbook Thursday, April 10, at 6:30 p.m. The first 100 people to arrive at Shambaugh Auditorium for the presentation will receive a small sample of Mast Brothers chocolate.

A group of UI students will take their ideas from the classroom to the community through a new Engaged Social Innovation track within the interdepartmental studies major; up to 12 honors students will be selected for the three-year program.

UI graduate student Andrew Nelson examined the effectiveness of several methods of measuring radium levels in flowback water, including gamma-ray spectroscopy, emanation techniques, and EPA method 903.0.

University of Iowa student Erin Church discusses the undergraduate research opportunities she's had working with associate professor Teresa Treat in the UI Department of Psychology.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present the Iowa Brass Quintet’s spring concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 15, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus. The concert is free and open to the public.

Many musicians, artists, and scientists have desired to merge disciplines in order to better understand our world, and Iowans will have the chance to experience the results of one such collaboration this week with The Crossroads Project on campus.