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 Tuesday, April 2, in Room 116 of Art Building West.

The Iowa Neurological Patient Registry was founded in 1982 by UI researchers. The one-of-a-kind registry collects multiple instances of patients who have experienced brain damage as a result of injury, illness, or surgery, and helps researchers determine if lesions in one specific brain area always produce the same cognitive or behavioral deficits.

David Schoenbaum, UI history professor emeritus, has been researching his book, The Violin: A Social History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument, ever since he started playing the violin, as a child.

Sarah Gardial, dean of the UI Tippie College of Business, says role models are important for underrepresented groups so organizations attract more diversity as part of a story on how despite more business schools having female deans, most MBAs are still men.

Innovative program includes music by recognized masters of classical music, as well as by contemporary musicians like Radiohead and Arcade Fire.

Nominations are now being accepted for the UI Children's Hospital Kid Captain program for 2013.

Daniel McGehee, director of the University of Iowa’s Human Factors and Vehicle Safety Research Division, comments on the impact of surveillance cameras in vehicles in a story on how Des Moines will soon install such cameras in city vehicles.

Hancher and Working Group Theatre have developed a rich collaboration. Now, an important grant from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters is helping strengthen those efforts.

Heavy rains have been more frequent across the upper Midwest, according to a study from the University of Iowa. The study spanned the last 60 years, up to 2010 and appears to hold true even with the current drought. Results appear in the "Journal of Climate."

The Get to Know series asks University of Iowa faculty and staff a few questions about their work and their outside interests. Today we visit with Cory Forbes, assistant professor of science education in the College of Education's Department of Teaching and Learning who also is an Eagle Scout.

University of Iowa paleontologist Christopher Brochu comments on the latest fossils discovered in a massive expansion project, skulls of crocodilians, which are ancient relatives of alligators, though he was not involved with this new work.

The maxillary sinuses, those pouches on either side of the human nose, have a purpose after all: They act as cushions to allow noses to assume different shapes. The study by a University of Iowa-led research team explains the relationship for the first time. Results appear in the journal "Anatomical Record."