The University of Iowa and Coe College are putting on the Science Olympiad state tournament, an event for budding scientists to compete in hands-on solo and group activities to earn a spot at the national competition, March 24 on the Coe campus.

The T. Anne Cleary Walkway will be under construction from Jefferson Street to Bloomington Street Monday, May 14, through Friday, Aug. 10.

Learn about the research being done by UI graduate students at the 2012 Jakobsen Conference.

The University of Iowa’s Hancher will present the Soweto Gospel Choir at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 27, at the Riverside Casino & Golf Resort’s Event Center.

An additional class of former Ames Laboratory employees who've been diagnosed with certain cancers may qualify for assistance, thanks in part to a screening program administered by the University of Iowa College of Public Health.

In the Memory of the Map: A Cartographic Memoir by Christopher Norment is now available from the Sightline Books series of the University of Iowa Press.

Both Marshalltown and Ellsworth Community Colleges have partnered with the University of Iowa to formalize an agreement that allows their students to earn a four-year degree without leaving central Iowa.

Joao Vale de Almeida, the European Union’s ambassador to the United States, will discuss the ongoing European sovereign debt crisis when he speaks at the University of Iowa College of Law on Wednesday, March 28.

The winners of the 2012 Iowa Short Fiction Awards are Marie-Helene Bertino and Chad Simpson. Bertino won the 2012 Iowa Short Fiction Award for her collection Safe as Houses, and Simpson's Tell Everyone I Said Hi is the winner of the 2012 John Simmons Short Fiction Award.

A new volume from the University of Iowa Press portrays Thoreau by those who knew him.

Cellist Hannah Holman and pianist Rene Lecuona, faculty members in the University of Iowa School of Music, will present a free faculty recital at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 21, in the Riverside Recital Hall.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free Improvisation for Classical Musicians concert—the second of three concerts this semester—at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 29, in the University Capitol Centre Recital Hall.