For more than three decades, the successful Saturday Art Workshops have engaged the community's young artists in the creative process while also offering aspiring art teachers the chance to practice their profession thanks to University of Iowa College of Education’s Art Education faculty and students.

The University of Iowa Museum of Art is seeking 12 artists to create wearable works of art inspired by Pollock’s Mural. Works will be featured in a fashion show at the Museum Party and then displayed for two weeks in downtown Iowa City.

The University of Iowa Bands in the School of Music will present a free Chamber Winds concert at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 11, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a Jazz Combo recital at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8, in the University Capitol Centre Recital Hall. The recital is free and open to the public.

Tom Rocklin, UI vice president for student life, writes about the many ways the UI fosters student success in the 2013 UI Division of Student Life Annual Report welcome message with this year's theme focusing on leadership development, multiculturalism, and safety and health.

As part of the UI’s biomass fuel project, dozens of Macbride Nature Recreation Area trees felled during a September storm were collected, mulched, and turned into a blended fuel that now can be used in the UI’s main power plant.

All works choreographed by graduate and undergraduate students in the University of Iowa Department of Dance will come to life on stage at the Graduate/Undergraduate Concert at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Dec. 12-14, in Space Place Theater, located at 101 North Hall on the UI campus.

More than 100 artists from across the Midwest and beyond will sell their original work at the Iowa Memorial Union in the annual Holiday Thieves’ Market.

Elementary-school teachers, administrators, and interested community members are invited to a free, informal discussion about how students learn. The discussion is part of an ongoing initiative by UI psychology department researchers to develop improved learning interventions for struggling students.

Parents, let your children get messy in the high chair. They learn better that way. That's according to a new study from the University of Iowa, which concludes that a 16-month-old's setting and degree of interaction enhances his or her ability to identify nonsolid objects and name them.

Dylan Holub faced a lot of ups and downs during his 141-day stay in the UI Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, including the development of retinopathy of prematurity—an abnormal blood vessel development in the retina which can cause blindness if not caught and treated early. Holub will be the honorary Kid Capain this Friday, Nov. 29 when the Hawkeyes play Nebraska.

The University of Iowa Center for New Music, housed within the UI School of Music, will present the Center for New Music Ensemble featuring guest composer Anthony Cheung from the University of Chicago at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus.