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Deidra Franzen Baker, the UI College of Education's 2012 Yager Educational Accomplishment Honor recipient, and education professor Bonnie Sunstein will present “Math in the Margins: Expanding the Five-Minute Universe with Geometry and Writing” at 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 11, in the Teacher Leader Center, N140 Lindquist Center.

Don "The Fossil Guy" Johnson returns to the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History in April with educational programs at 2 p.m. on Saturday afternoons.

It's severe weather season again. Charles Green, director of the UI Department of Public Safety, reminds the UI community how to stay safe during the diciest of storms.

MusicIC 2012, Iowa City’s summer classical music festival, returns for a second year with a week-long series of concerts and other events June 10-16. This year’s festival includes more musicians, a concert and scavenger hunt for families, and an ambitious attempt to theatricalize one of the concerts.

New software developed by UI student and faculty will aid in preparations for evacuation during future floods.

An ingrained commitment to strong forestry practices and opportunities for students has earned the UI renewed recognition from the Arbor Day Foundation.

Actuaries are expected to be in demand in coming years. But what do actuaries do? Beyond something that involves math and insurance, explanations always seem mysterious and bizarre, something that only other practitioners of actuarial science can really understand.

Alec Scranton, newly appointed engineering dean, is a fifth-generation Iowan and a University of Iowa alumnus.

The UIMA@IMU will be closed Easter Sunday, April 8. A visual classroom of the University of Iowa Museum of Art, the UIMA@IMU is located in the third floor Richey Ballroom of the UI’s Iowa Memorial Ballroom.

The life and legacy of Bill Sacker will be celebrated on what would have been his 99th birthday Friday, April 13.

Death notices for current and retired UI employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available.