Spring is always greeted with welcome arms on campus, but this year's frigid Midwestern winter has made the change in temperatures even more inviting for embraces in Iowa City.

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

University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduates Karla Kelsey and Endi Bogue Hartigan will read from their new books of poetry from Omnidawn Press at 7 p.m. Friday, April 18, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.

Iowa’s brightest elementary students will present their inventions at the 27th annual Invent Iowa competition Saturday, April 19, from 12:30 to 4:20 p.m. The event will take place at the Blank Honors Center on the University of Iowa campus and is free and open to the public.

Members of the media are invited to “Black Girls Do Science,” a camp for girls in grades 4-8 in which the girls do hands-on STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) activities. The event is Saturday April 12, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Seamans Center, hosted by the National Society of Black Engineers and the UI College of Engineering.

The University of Iowa Mobile Museum will hit the road to Fort Dodge to visit the Annual Meeting of the Iowa Academy of Science on Friday, April 11 and Saturday, April 12.

An upgrade to the University of Iowa's Lynda.com service, which provides more than 100,000 online video tutorials to build technology and business skills, means all UI students and employees now have access to this resource.

The University of Iowa Department of Dance will present "Wild Ones," a Dance MFA thesis concert featuring the work of Marie Brown, Jingqiu Guan, Marie Mortensen, and Dana Powers-Klooster at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, April 17-19, in Space Place Theatre, 101 North Hall.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free performance by the UI Symphony Band, conducted by Mark Heidel, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 17, in the Iowa Memorial Union Ballroom on the UI campus.

A day after a “red flag” weather alert delayed the work, University of Iowa Facilities Management Landscape Services staff began conducting a prairie burn at 8:30 a.m. today (Thursday, April 10) adjacent to Hawkins Drive and west of the Ronald McDonald House.

Searching for a visual journey through the blurred lines of reality? The 12th annual Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival invites people to explore the boundaries of documentary and nonfiction filmmaking. The three-day festival runs Thursday-Saturday, April 17-19, at Film Scene in downtown Iowa City.

The University of Iowa has created a Twitter account devoted to research. The @UIowaResearch account will act as the central node for research, broadcasting research news, events, and expert views from the university to myriad audiences central to the institution. The account launched today.