Hawkeye Caucus Day takes place at the Iowa State Capitol Wednesday, April 2, drawing more than 100 UI students, plus alumni, faculty, university leaders, and—yes—Herky.

Laurie Anderson will speak at the Englert Theatre Tuesday, April 1, at 7:30 p.m. Anderson is a writer, director, visual artist, and vocalist best known for her multimedia presentations and innovative use of technology.

Archaeologist Simon James will give a lecture, “Isle of Druids and Celtic Warriors? Britain on the Eve of Roman Invasion” Monday, March 31, at 7:30 p.m. in Art Building West on the University of Iowa campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Of the 30 stations that were part of the Cedar Rapids Science Center’s Brain Awareness Week, seven were created and facilitated by UI College of Education students from clinical instructor Ted Neal’s science education classes. School groups came to the Science Center to walk through rooms full of different interactive educational stations about the brain.

Over Spring Break, about four dozen UI students spread out for service trips around the Midwest and South. Now they're challenged to apply the lessons they learned back home.

UI senior and Winterset, Iowa, native Chance Sullivan plans to spend part of the next year interviewing at medical schools. He might show up with a motorcycle helmet under his arm.

The UI's homegrown student information system, MAUI, earned a Models of Efficiency award from University Business magazine for streamlining higher education operations through technology and business process improvements.

In a special event co-sponsored by the Mission Creek Festival, University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduates Leslie Jamison and Adam Fell will read from their new work at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 1, 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.

Writers’ Workshop instructor Kevin Brockmeier will read from his new memoir, "A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade," at 7 p.m. Monday, March 31, 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 Percussion, housed within the University of Iowa School of Music, will present “Premieres and Other Firsts” at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 30, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus. The concert, which is free and open to the public, will feature marimba soloist Andy Harnsberger, dulcimer soloist Matthew Coley, and composer Steven Simpson as guest artists.

The University of Iowa Department of Dance will stage "Presenting Norma," an MFA thesis concert featuring the work of Lindsay Fisher and Jeremy Blair, at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, April 3-5, in Space Place Theatre (101 North Hall).

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free piano recital by guest artist Jose R. Lopez, associate professor and coordinator of the Keyboard Studies Program at Florida International University in Miami, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 2, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus.