The University of Iowa Main Library Learning Commons, in conjunction with Craft Critique Culture, an interdisciplinary graduate student conference, is hosting a Social Media Boot Camp March 31-April 5.

Come join “Mission Pollock” at the next University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA) First Friday on Friday, April 4, from 5 to 7 p.m. at FilmScene, on the downtown Iowa City Pedestrian Mall at 118 E. College St. First Friday is free and open to the public.

The UI Museum of Art annual party April 12 will feature a fashion show of 12 wearable works of art inspired by Jackson Pollock’s masterpiece, "Mural." (Note: A paid subscription may be required.)

A University of Iowa freshman who found an injured owl on campus last month and arranged for the Macbride Raptor Project to nurse it back to health released the owl Friday near the spot where it was found.

Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.'s words, "Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education," Dubuque artist Adam Eikamp is creating a sculpture for the new UI West Campus Residence Hall with a curved shape representing "the creative and educational process."

Want to explore the story behind school lunches in New York City, dive to the depths of the Arctic seafloor, or venture into our possible future if we continue to pollute? The UI Museum of Natural History invites you along on these adventures during the Movies@MNH Earth Month Movie Series.

The Mission Creek Festival and Prairie Lights Books will present a free reading by Writers' Workshop alumnus Kyle Minor and University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program alumna Angela Pelster at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 3, in Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.

The University of Iowa Center for Human Rights will host a discussion examining current events in Ukraine featuring three experts from among UI faculty. The discussion will be Wednesday, April 9, at 2 p.m. in Room C31 Pomerantz Center on the UI campus.

John Hosp, professor and chair of the UI College of Education Department of Teaching and Learning, released a new book to help teachers resolve student learning and behavioral issues by making research-based decisions on what to teach and how to teach it.

High school and middle school robotic skills will be on display when the University of Iowa College of Engineering and Rockwell Collins host one of four U.S. national FIRST Tech Challenge Super Regional Championship Tournaments April 3-5 in Carver-Hawkeye Arena on the UI campus.

See a roundup of recent UI activities, research, public engagement, and campus life in Iowa Now Minute 3/28/2014.

The UI Obermann Center for Advanced Studies will hold a working symposium, Health Humanities: Building the Future of Research and Teaching, April 4 and 5. From music therapy to finding well-being through the written word, organizers hope the two-day series of events will allow attendees to build bridges across the arts, humanities and health sciences, offering "incalculable benefits."