Video highlights from the 2014 UI Distinguished Lecture by Jane Goodall at Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Monday, March 10th, made possible by the UI Lecture Committee.

University of Iowa staff members who wish to begin or continue their undergraduate education can apply for funding support from the Robert F. Ray Staff Scholarship, offered through the Division of Continuing Education. The deadline for application is April 1.

As part of the national RecycleMania competition, University of Iowa students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to recycle as part of a spring-cleaning effort from March 10-14 in their offices, residence halls, or apartments.

White foam stacked several feet high below the Burlington Street dam on the Iowa River is a natural result of melting snow that carries decaying organic material, such as dead leaves or grass, says Doug Schnoebelen, a water quality specialist with UI IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering.

Jane Goodall called upon today’s students to follow their own curiosity, and even more, to have the courage to take the road less traveled: “There is so much left to discover,” the famed primatologist and conservation champion said at the University of Iowa.

"Mural," the brilliant Jackson Pollock painting that took 20th century American art in a new direction, has re-emerged from seclusion with a stunning face-lift that's given it a brighter look and an even more towering presence than it had before.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free performance by The Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 12, in Room 150 of College Street Music 376 in downtown Iowa City.

"Family Feeling" by Jean Ross Justice is now available from the University of Iowa Press. This novella and collection of stories is a moving portrait of American domestic life of the last half-century. Often spanning generations, the stories are defined by subtle shifts in both family relationships and the ways in which we reconfigure them in memory and mind.

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Terry Wahls, UI clinical professor of internal medicine, details lifestyle changes and Paleolithic-style food plans to combat autoimmune diseases and other chronic medical conditions in her new book, "The Wahls Protocol."

University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program and Writers’ Workshop graduate Julene Bair will read from her ecological memoir of the high plains, "The Ogallala Road," at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 13, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.

Henry B. Tippie, one of the top five donors to the University of Iowa, says his support for the university and his engagement with current students is “repayment for benefits received.”