The University of Iowa will sponsor "Lessons in Drag" on Sunday, March 2, a performance that raises issues of gender and explores South Asian popular culture. The performance will be followed by a next-day panel discussion on March 3, exploring India's penal code that has widely been understood to criminalize homosexuality.

The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts will produce "Absurd Person Singular," a ferociously funny play by the master of British comedy, Alan Ayckbourn, as its next Mainstage production. The production will open March 6 in the David Thayer Theatre of the UI Theatre Building, 200 N. Riverside Drive.

Some 4,000 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the Dean's List for the 2013 fall semester. The UI is partnering with Merit, the flagship software created by readMedia in New York, to promote and recognize outstanding student achievement on campus.

University of Iowa President Sally Mason's letter to The Daily Iowan editorial page, published Feb. 24, 2014.

The problem of sexual assault is a challenge for campuses and communities nationally. At the University of Iowa, we are directly confronting this problem. We are being transparent about the issue, and we are using research-based solutions to address it. Here are the facts.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a guest artist recital by Dylan Thomas Chmura-Moore, assistant professor of music at University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 3, in the University Capitol Centre Recital Hall. The recital is free and open to the public.

Why don't we remember what we hear? University of Iowa researchers may have an answer: In experiments, the team found we forget a sound as soon as four to eight seconds after being exposed to it. Tha suggests our brain may process auditory information differently from visual and tactile information.

More than 15,000 of the college’s alumni and friends have made gifts totaling more than $100 million to the UI Foundation supporting College of Liberal Arts and Sciences students, faculty, staff, programs, and facilities during the "For Iowa. Forever More." fundraising campaign.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free performance by the UI Chamber Orchestra at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 2, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus.

Richard Epstein, professor of law at New York University and author of the Hoover Institution’s The Libertarian blog, will discuss social welfare when he speaks at the University of Iowa College of Law on Thursday, March 6.

The University of Iowa Museum of Art will host its monthly First Friday art reception from 5 to 7 p.m. on March 7 at Iowa City's newest film venue, FilmScene, located at 118 East College Street on the Pedestrian Mall.

Alan Huckleberry, associate professor in the University of Iowa School of Music, will make an audiovisual statement about human rights during the March 2 Piano Sundays concert at 1:30 p.m. in the Old Capitol Museum.