The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History invites you to come out of the cold and come along for a different kind of snowy adventure as it presents "The Amazing Adventures of Willy the Woolly," performed by Eulenspiegel Puppets at 1:00 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15.

Interested in doing some good in the community? Lending a helping hand could be as easy as eating a cookie. The University of Iowa Ceramics Society and Historic Foodies will host an Empty Bowl Sale from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21, in the Old Capitol Town Center.

Herky took to the dance floor along with University of Iowa students, oncology patients, and their family members and friends during the 20th UI Dance Marathon. The Big Event raised $1,801,032.20—$300,000 more than last year and the largest amount in the event’s history.

In honor of Valentine's Day, University of Iowa Libraries staff invites everyone to go on a blind date with a book, search for love in the Iowa Digital Library, and create a pop-up Valentine card.

Two lanes of Madison Street near the Iowa Memorial Union, in the one-block area south of Jefferson Street and north of Iowa Avenue, will be closed from February 17 to March 27. One lane of traffic in each direction will remain open at all times.

The University of Iowa Dance Marathon announced Saturday night that UI students and partners raised $1,801,032.20—$300,000 more than last year and the largest amount in the event’s history.

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Today, University of Iowa's Dance Marathon marks its 20th anniversary of helping fund pediatric cancer research at the UI Carver College of Medicine and providing programs for patients and their families at UI Children's Hospital. Those affected most talk about the impact of improving cancer research.

All works choreographed by faculty members and graduate students in the University of Iowa Department of Dance will come to life on stage at the Faculty/Graduate Concert at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 13-15, in Space Place Theater, 101 North Hall, on the UI campus.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free performance by the UI Symphony Orchestra, conducted by William LaRue Jones, director of orchestral studies, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 19, in the Main Lounge of the Iowa Memorial Union on the UI campus.

Ingo Titze, an authority on voice and speech, and fellow UI researchers found that except under unrealistic controlled circumstances, voice votes are useless: "The vote is very, very biased toward loud voices...soft voices are like no voices in a vote."

UI students last night premiered Makeover the newest partnership between writer and lyricist Darrah Cloud and composer Kim Sherman, who are artists-in-residence in the UI Department of Theatre Arts. (Note: A paid subscription may be required.)