University of Iowa Youth Ballet, a community outreach program of the UI Department of Dance, will offer four weeklong dance workshops this summer: three for children and one for intermediate dancers.

Certified Archivist Trudy Huskamp Peterson will be on the University of Iowa campus Monday and Tuesday, April 7 and 8, as part of the Department of History Visiting Lecturer Series. Peterson is former acting archivist of the United States.

See a roundup of recent University of Iowa activities, research, public engagement, and campus life in Iowa Now Minute 4/4/2014.

Students in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences find the Pomerantz Career Center invaluable in helping them identify and prepare for careers—and the college has the placement rates to prove it.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a joint performance by the University of Iowa’s Johnson County Landmark and the University of Northern Iowa’s Jazz Band One at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 9, in the Englert Theatre in downtown Iowa City. The concert is free and open to the public.

Susan Lagos Lavenz, associate dean of teacher education and student services at UI, says the College of Education is looking at ways to partner with the Iowa City Community School District to place minorities in education jobs.

Andrew Solomon will speak at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 10, in the Dean Ballroom of the Sheraton Iowa City Hotel. Solomon is the author of the acclaimed "Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity," and is an outspoken activist for LGBT rights, among other causes.

Concert organist Ann Marie Rigler, a University of Iowa alumna, will present a free concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 6, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus.

Cal DeWitt, a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, will argue against the suggestion that Christianity is the root of our ecological crisis during a free, public discussion Friday, April 11, sponsored by the Geneva Campus Ministry.

The University of Iowa Fine Arts Council will present the 2014 Riverbank Art Fair and Annual Wine Tasting on the weekend of April 26-27 in the Iowa Memorial Union Main Lounge, along the bank of the Iowa River.

About 120 University of Iowa students joined faculty and staff representatives for Hawkeye Caucus Day at the Iowa State Capitol, connecting with state leaders and demonstrating the university's statewide impact.

The 2014 Hawkeye Caucus was a popular topic among participating University of Iowa students, faculty and staff, and legislators Wednesday, April 2, at the Capitol in Des Moines.