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.

Certified Archivist Trudy Huskamp Peterson will be on the University of Iowa campus Monday and Tuesday, April 7 and 8, as part of the Department of History Visiting Lecturer Series. Peterson is former acting archivist of the United States.

The Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development recognized research and innovation excellence among UI students, faculty, and staff April 3 with its inaugural Distinguished Research Awards. Recipients were honored Thursday at a private dinner and ceremony at hotel Vetro alongside other distinguished colleagues.

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Students in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences find the Pomerantz Career Center invaluable in helping them identify and prepare for careers—and the college has the placement rates to prove it.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a joint performance by the University of Iowa’s Johnson County Landmark and the University of Northern Iowa’s Jazz Band One at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 9, in the Englert Theatre in downtown Iowa City. The concert is free and open to the public.

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Andrew Solomon will speak at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 10, in the Dean Ballroom of the Sheraton Iowa City Hotel. Solomon is the author of the acclaimed "Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity," and is an outspoken activist for LGBT rights, among other causes.

Concert organist Ann Marie Rigler, a University of Iowa alumna, will present a free concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 6, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus.

University of Iowa junior Liam Hovey has received a 2014 Goldwater Scholarship, the premier undergraduate award for students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Cal DeWitt, a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, will argue against the suggestion that Christianity is the root of our ecological crisis during a free, public discussion Friday, April 11, sponsored by the Geneva Campus Ministry.

The University of Iowa Fine Arts Council will present the 2014 Riverbank Art Fair and Annual Wine Tasting on the weekend of April 26-27 in the Iowa Memorial Union Main Lounge, along the bank of the Iowa River.