University of Iowa students, faculty, staff, and alumni received some of the institution’s highest honors Tuesday, May 5, at the 98th anniversary of the Finkbine Dinner for Representative Student Leaders.

Hancher will present Inti-Illimani, a folk music ensemble from Chile, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Friday, May 15, on the Iowa City pedestrian mall, next to the Sheraton Hotel. The free performance will kick off the Summer of the Arts Friday Night Concert Series.

The annual White Coat Ceremony closes the first year of dental school for students and marks their transition to additional patient care responsibilities during year two. Students will be ceremonially cloaked with their first white laboratory coats and will recite the Oath of a Dentist.

The second meeting of the University of Iowa Presidential Search and Screen Committee has been set for Friday, May 8, from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Kelch Conference Room, Room 1289 of the Carver Biomedical Research Building (CBRB) on the UI campus.

There’s no other day during the school year when philanthropy—nicknamed “Phil” by the University of Iowa Foundation’s Student Philanthropy Initiative—is more visible than on Phil’s Day, which took place on Thursday, April 30—the fourth annual celebration of philanthropy on the UI campus.

Sexual Assault Awareness Month comes to a close Thursday, April 30, with "Take Back the Night," a rally and march that also gives voice to survivors of sex-related crimes.

The Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development held its Celebrating Excellence: Discovery and Innovation Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, April 28. The annual event recognizes faculty, staff, postdoctoral scholars/fellows, graduate students, undergraduate students, and mentors who have demonstrated outstanding accomplishments to research in their field.

The DeLTA Center, an interdisciplinary research community at the University of Iowa, will recognize research from the past year during its third annual DeLTA Day celebration Friday, May 1, at the Athletic Hall of Fame.

Undergraduate dance majors in the University of Iowa Department of Dance will have the opportunity to present their choreography to the public during the Undergraduate Concert at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, May 7-9, in Space Place Theater, 101 North Hall.

University of Iowa Youth Ballet, a community outreach program of the UI Department of Dance, will offer four weeklong dance workshops this summer: three for children and one for intermediate dancers.

The University of Iowa is set to host experts and researchers from around the world as part of the 2015 Provost’s Global Forum, “The Arab Spring in a Global Context.”

For more than 40 years, the University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts has presented an annual festival centered on producing, reading, and analyzing new scripts from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. Iowa New Play Festival 2015 will take place at the UI Theatre Building May 4-9.