Deloitte Consulting teams wrap up campus interviews for Rising to the Next TIER, the transformation and efficiency study of Iowa's public universities commissioned by the Iowa Board of Regents.

The Iowa Board of Regents today gave the University of Iowa permission to name the new west campus residence hall and its learning commons after education leader Mary Louise Petersen and longtime housing and dining manager Theodore M. Rehder.

The University of Iowa Mobile Museum will travel to the Iowa Archaeological Society spring meeting in Decorah on Saturday, May 3. The museum will be open to the public from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Luther College Library parking lot.

Three unique artists, one common sentiment: the Grant Wood Fellowships at the University of Iowa have provided a wonderful experience. In advance of the Grant Wood Symposium on the UI campus, the trio discuss their work, the benefits of the fellowship, the direction they will take post-fellowship, and how their Iowa City experiences have exceeded expectations.

Members of the media are invited to cover an event this Friday, April 25, when Shimek Elementary students release helium weather balloons that will carry cameras high into the sky to measure the curvature of the earth, thanks to a hands-on learning project with UI students and the School of the Wild.

The University of Iowa School of Art and Art History welcomes the public to enjoy an evening of fun and culture at 2014 ArtsFest, which will take place from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, May 2, in the Studio Arts Building at 1375 Highway 1 West in Iowa City.

Approximately 200 middle school student members of the African American Awareness Program in Cedar Rapids will be on campus Thursday, May 1 to experience life as college students and participate in a book discussion.

Author Erin Hart and musician Paddy O’Brien will help the University of Iowa Libraries Conservation Lab kick off its 30th anniversary celebration on Thursday, May 1, starting at 7 p.m.

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 2014 will take place Monday-Sunday, May 5-10, in the UI Theatre Building.

University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumni Jane Mead, Larissa Szporluk, and Heidi Johannesen Poon will read from their poetry at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free performance by the UI Symphony Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, in the Main Lounge of the Iowa Memorial Union.

David Cassels Johnson, an assistant professor at the University of Iowa College of Education, has recently released a new book, "Language Policy." It explains critical theories, research methods and findings, while offering new ideas supported by empirical data collection on the topic.