The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History will explore the origins of human culture with a free, public screening of "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" at 3 p.m. Sunday March 9, as part of the “Movies@MNH” program series.

Randall Kenan, author of fiction and nonfiction, will present a free reading at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 12, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Glenn Schaeffer Library, adjacent to the Dey House.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present “Hearing, Voice, Singing, and Self-Regulation: Polyvagal Theory and the Power of Music,” a presentation by physical therapist Matt Erb at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 6, in Room 150 of Clinton Street Music 6 in downtown Iowa City.

The Wieting Theatre and Opera House kicks off its inaugural Fine Arts Performance Series with Dancers in Company, the touring repertory dance company of the UI Dance Department, Sunday, March 9, at 2 p.m.

Jane Goodall will present a lecture, “Sowing the Seeds of Hope” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 10 at Carver-Hawkeye Arena on the University of Iowa campus. Goodall is a researcher, conservationist, and lecturer, and is best known for her study of chimpanzee behavior that revolutionized primate research.

More than 150 high school students from around the state came to campus to present original research and participate in hands-on learning labs during the 2014 Regional Junior Science and Humanities Symposium hosted by the UI College of Education's Belin-Blank Center.

Five of the more than 150 Iowa high school students from across the state were chosen to advance to a national conference after presenting their original research on the UI campus during the 2014 Iowa Regional Junior Science and Humanities Symposium.

The University of Iowa School of Art and Art History will present "The Black Tongue Lexicon," a free performance by visual artist Gary Setzer, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 5 in Public Space One, 120 N. Dubuque Street in downtown Iowa City.

UI psychiatry professor Stephan Arndt published a paper last year that found blacks are an average of 10 percentage points less likely to graduate drug treatment than whites with similar addiction profiles.

Iowans are invited to “Dare to Discover” the research, creativity, and innovation the University of Iowa strives to achieve—from the screen of their computer, tablet, or smartphone—with the help of a new gateway website launched by the UI Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development called "Dare to Discover."

Chinese teachers with the Confucius Institute in University of Iowa International Programs visited Muscatine High School to teach students about the tea ceremony in the Chinese culture. After the presentation, students brewed tea in pots they made and shared it with classmates.

Author and chemist Carl Djerassi will give a keynote address at the symposium "Pill and Pen: Contraception and Unwanted Pregnancy in Literature and Popular Culture." The symposium will be held March 7 to 9 in various locations across the UI campus.