When we think about music from other countries, it can be easy to get caught up in a one-note stereotype. UI’s Hancher will present Sones de México Friday, April 11, at 7:30 p.m. at the Englert Theatre, where the folk music ensemble will share the full scope of Mexico’s varied traditions.

In honor of Cesar Chavez week, the Association of Latinos Moving Ahead welcomes award-winning artist Joaquin Zihuatanejo to the UI campus for a celebration of diversity and the power of words. Zihuatanejo will perform Wednesday, April 2, at Shambaugh Auditorium in the Main Library from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Clinton Street will be closed to through traffic from the intersection at Burlington Street south one block to Court Street, effective April 1 through August 26. Traffic should follow detour signs via S. Dubuque Street to Prentiss Street.

The University of Notre Dame announced today that it is awarding University of Iowa President Sally Mason an honorary doctor of laws degree during its commencement ceremony May 18.

Drinking two or more diet drinks a day may increase the risk of heart disease, including heart attack and stroke, in otherwise healthy postmenopausal women, according to a new University of Iowa study.

The University of Iowa Main Library Learning Commons, in conjunction with Craft Critique Culture, an interdisciplinary graduate student conference, is hosting a Social Media Boot Camp March 31-April 5.

Come join “Mission Pollock” at the next University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA) First Friday on Friday, April 4, from 5 to 7 p.m. at FilmScene, on the downtown Iowa City Pedestrian Mall at 118 E. College St. First Friday is free and open to the public.

Want to explore the story behind school lunches in New York City, dive to the depths of the Arctic seafloor, or venture into our possible future if we continue to pollute? The UI Museum of Natural History invites you along on these adventures during the Movies@MNH Earth Month Movie Series.

The Mission Creek Festival and Prairie Lights Books will present a free reading by Writers' Workshop alumnus Kyle Minor and University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program alumna Angela Pelster at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 3, in 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 Center for Human Rights will host a discussion examining current events in Ukraine featuring three experts from among UI faculty. The discussion will be Wednesday, April 9, at 2 p.m. in Room C31 Pomerantz Center on the UI campus.

The University of Iowa, along with other Iowa regents institutions, will showcase undergraduate student research projects, from archaeology to public health, at the annual Research in the Capitol event on Tuesday, April 1 in Des Moines. There are 20 UI student research projects on display, with the students on hand to discuss them.

John Hosp, professor and chair of the UI College of Education Department of Teaching and Learning, released a new book to help teachers resolve student learning and behavioral issues by making research-based decisions on what to teach and how to teach it.