Marcelo Mena-Carrasco, a University of Iowa College of Engineering alumnus, has been named to a cabinet post in the administration of Chile’s president-elect Michelle Bachelet.

University of Iowa graduate student Emily Inman was diagnosed with a condition called aplastic anemia was she was 10 years old. She now plans to use her own experience with pediatric cancer to help other young survivors.

UI engineering students have built five bridges, located in Peru, Zambia, and Nicaragua, under the auspices of the nonprofit group Bridges to Prosperity, and are currently designing and fundraising for a sixth, which is scheduled to be built this summer.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free performance by the UI Chamber Orchestra, conducted by William LaRue Jones, director of orchestral studies in the UI School of Music, at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus.

The University of Iowa is creating regional economic development engagement centers to work with local businesses, economic development groups, and community colleges to solve tangible and specific economic problems and to address specific skills shortages.

An all-day workshop titled "Global leadership starts here: A U.S.-China student workshop on the undergraduate experience at Iowa" will be held Saturday, Feb. 22, at the Adler Journalism Building on the University of Iowa campus.

The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History invites you to come out of the cold and come along for a different kind of snowy adventure as it presents "The Amazing Adventures of Willy the Woolly," performed by Eulenspiegel Puppets at 1:00 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15.

Herky took to the dance floor along with University of Iowa students, oncology patients, and their family members and friends during the 20th UI Dance Marathon. The Big Event raised $1,801,032.20—$300,000 more than last year and the largest amount in the event’s history.

Two lanes of Madison Street near the Iowa Memorial Union, in the one-block area south of Jefferson Street and north of Iowa Avenue, will be closed from February 17 to March 27. One lane of traffic in each direction will remain open at all times.

Today, University of Iowa's Dance Marathon marks its 20th anniversary of helping fund pediatric cancer research at the UI Carver College of Medicine and providing programs for patients and their families at UI Children's Hospital. Those affected most talk about the impact of improving cancer research.

All works choreographed by faculty members and graduate students in the University of Iowa Department of Dance will come to life on stage at the Faculty/Graduate Concert at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 13-15, in Space Place Theater, 101 North Hall, on the UI campus.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free performance by the UI Symphony Orchestra, conducted by William LaRue Jones, director of orchestral studies, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 19, in the Main Lounge of the Iowa Memorial Union on the UI campus.