The University of Iowa Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, Faculty Senate, and the Office of the Provost invite faculty to the annual Tenure Workshop Monday, March 31, in Room 116 of Art Building West.

Two lanes of northbound traffic on South Riverside Drive will be reduced to one lane near the Stanley Hydraulics Lab and approaching the Burlington Street intersection on Monday, April 7, from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Kang Zhao, a UI assistant professor and an expert in business analytics and social network analysis, has created a match-making system that looks at users' behavior as they browse a dating site for prospective partners, and at the responses they receive from people they contact.

Two new University of Iowa studies suggest that personal choice is more effective than government mandate when it comes to making healthy food choices.

UI Writers' Workshop director Samantha Chang notes that the fictional Hannah Horvarth of HBO's "Girls" may face some of the same culture shock upon arriving in Iowa as do real-life students from New York.

Are you interested in making a change for women on the UI campus? The UI Council on the Status of Women provides an opportunity to address educational and professional issues of particular relevance to women. Membership is open to faculty, P&S, merit, undergraduates, and graduate and professional students.

The 2014 University of Iowa Provost’s Global Forum on “Child Protection: A Global Responsibility” will be held this week, focusing on how experiences that harm children’s social and behavioral functioning lead to physical and mental health issues in adulthood.

UI already complied with many of the new federal requirements for colleges regarding preventing, reporting, and disciplining sexual violence before they took effect this month, but administrators say they’re using the act to review policies, update language, and stay current on the issue.

A new study co-authored by a University of Iowa researcher suggest that extra sales taxes on soda do nothing to improve people’s health or reduce obesity.

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City generates 8,233 jobs that have a $686 million impact on Iowa’s economy, according to the latest study by the Iowa Hospital Association.

The UI College of Education will host a day-long symposium Tuesday, March 25 that is free and open to the public. Scholars from Chile, Brazil, Germany, and the United States will lead discussions and presentations examining how educators in different social and cultural contexts respond to changes facing graduate education.

A community forum on the “Right to Health in the Shadow of War: Global Perspectives,” will be held Thursday, March 27, at 7:30 p.m. at the University of Iowa Hillel House, located at 122 E. Market St. in Iowa City.