The University of Iowa will host the Celebrating Cultural Diversity Festival from noon to 5 p.m., Saturday, March 31, in the UI Field House.

Three new volumes of poetry scholarship are among the late-March releases from the University of Iowa Press.

As a young professor, Linda Kerber longed to discover more about the history of women in the United States. That interest has kept her busy throughout four decades.

“Evolution in Iowa Backyards: What the Insects Eating Apples and Sunflowers Tell Us About Origins of Species” is the subject of a lecture by University of Iowa biology professor Andrew Forbes at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 22, in the Biosphere Discovery Hub of the UI Museum of Natural History.

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.