Lawrence Weschler will read from his essay collection, Uncanny Valley, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 6, in a free reading in the Room 101 of Biology Building East on the University of Iowa campus.

Explore the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History after dark and discover why giant Ice Age beasts went extinct. Stay up late for the “Night at the Museum” spring series with the “Ice Age” from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, March 22.

Some 4,000 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the Dean's list for the 2012 fall semester.

The University of Iowa College of Law will be the new administrative home for the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights with Adrien Wing, Bessie Dutton Murray Professor of Law, becoming its new director.

Rus Bradburd will read from "Make It, Take It," a novel that lays bare college basketball's web of conflicts, at 7 p.m. Monday, March 4, 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.

The UI School of Music will present the 2013 University of Iowa Orchestra Invitational Gala Concert, performed by the UI Chamber Orchestra and School of Music faculty, at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus. The concert is free and the public is welcome.

With less than one month left in the season, University of Iowa senior Eric May's men's basketball journey is entering the final act.

The University of Iowa Public Digital Humanities for Lunch (PDH4L) series continues a presentation titled "New Ways of Writing in Community" from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, at the Gerber Auditorium in the English and Philosophy Building (EPB).

The University of Iowa awarded an estimated 1,500 degrees at the close of the 2012 fall session.

Margot Livesey, Jonathan Goldsmith Visiting Author at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, will present a free reading at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Glenn Schaeffer Library, adjacent to the Dey House.

Iowa City poet and Iowa Writers' Workshop alumnus James McKean will read from his new collection of poetry, "We Are the Bus," winner of the 2011 X.J. Kennedy Prize, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27, at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.

American businesses are struggling with change, and that’s going to be an increasingly serious problem for the economy in coming years. Management and organizations professor Sara Rynes will discuss the threats of apathy when she delivers this year's UI Presidential Lecture Feb. 24.