When it comes to connecting University of Iowa students with major organizations in the sports world, Dan Matheson has it covered.

University of Iowa law professor Angela Onwuachi-Willig says if the races are ever to come closer to understanding one another, the lessons have to start when children are young.

Four University of Iowa scholars were awarded a total of $86,060 in support of their innovative approaches to teaching with technology.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, a national correspondent with The Atlantic and author of The Beautiful Struggle, presented "A Deeper Black: Race in America” to a packed Englert Theatre on Feb. 25. Coates also participated in a community conversation featuring a panel of UI faculty, students and staff, and an Iowa City Council member.

The University of Iowa Libraries has been selected as the host site for the state of Iowa for First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare, a national traveling exhibition of the Shakespeare First Folio, one of the world’s most treasured books. The tour will take place in 2016; specific touring dates will be announced in April.

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The family of Wayne and Jean Wells has established a new scholarship fund for University of Iowa students from Van Buren County who are pursuing a business degree. The gift provides an endowed fund that will pay out scholarships annually in perpetuity, helping generations of Southeast Iowa students.

The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts will hold open auditions from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 7, and from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday, March 8, for the Iowa New Play Festival 2015. Callbacks will be held between 6 and 11 p.m. Monday-Thursday, March 9-12.

If a geological age can have a “moment,” the Anthropocene is having its right now. Increasingly popular and recognizable, the term was coined 15 years ago by Nobel laureate and atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen to denote the present geological time interval. The Anthropocene will be front and center at a three-day interdisciplinary Obermann symposium on the UI campus, March 5-7.

The Iowa Board of Regents has named the 21 members of the University of Iowa Presidential Search and Screen Committee. The committee is charged with identifying candidates for board consideration, in conjunction with the search consultant, Parker Executive Search, to serve as the next president of the UI.

The vibrant Pacifica Quartet will play music by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Ran in a concert Friday, March 6, at 7:30 p.m. at Riverside Recital Hall, culminating a week-long residency. University of Iowa's Hancher presents the concert in collaboration with the UI String Quartet Residency Program.

Deborah Elizabeth Whaley, an associate professor in the American Studies Department and African American Studies Program at the University of Iowa, writes a guest column about homelessness prior to the showing of "The Homestretch," a documentary that follows three homeless teenagers, that will be shown Tuesday, Feb. 24, at FilmScene.