A UI expert will explore the unprecedented financial crises affecting America’s middle class in a free public lecture presented by the UI Alumni Association on April 24 in Des Moines.

Deidra Franzen Baker, the UI College of Education's 2012 Yager Educational Accomplishment Honor recipient, and education professor Bonnie Sunstein will present “Math in the Margins: Expanding the Five-Minute Universe with Geometry and Writing” at 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 11, in the Teacher Leader Center, N140 Lindquist Center.

Influential multi-instrumentalist and composer Peter Apfelbaum, founder of the Hieroglyphics Ensemble, will be a special guest soloist in a free concert by the University of Iowa's Johnson County Landmark big band at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 13, in the Englert Theater.

New works from the University of Iowa Composers Workshop will be presented in a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 15, in the Riverside Recital Hall.

The Latin Jazz Ensemble of the University of Iowa School of Music will be joined by guest artists Rich Medd, trombone, and John Lorenz, bata, in a free concert at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 15, in the Riverside Recital Hall.

President Barack Obama has appointed Christopher Merrill, director of the University of Iowa International Writing Program, to the National Council on the Humanities.

The Jonas Nurse Leaders Scholar Program aims to turn promising students like Emily Higdon into tomorrow's nursing program faculty, addressing a critical shortage.

How is science fiction film imagined outside of the U.S.? Find out at Visions of the Future, a global science fiction film conference.

Don "The Fossil Guy" Johnson returns to the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History in April with educational programs at 2 p.m. on Saturday afternoons.

It's severe weather season again. Charles Green, director of the UI Department of Public Safety, reminds the UI community how to stay safe during the diciest of storms.

The leaders of University of Iowa Health Care and Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids today, Wednesday, April 4, jointly announced plans to collaborate on the design and development of a new nonprofit health care organization that will enhance the health of communities in the Corridor and beyond.

After almost three years at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, the UI Museum of Art's Mural by world-renowned artist Jackson Pollock will debut in central Iowa at the Des Moines Art Center. Iowa Now caught up with the crew on moving day.