BMindful is an initiative that seeks to meet the needs of diverse communities by providing event and conference planners with the dates of holy days of major religious faiths for five years into the future. By providing these dates in advance, BMindful seeks to help planners avoid those dates when scheduling events. BMindful does not include all religious holy days. It focuses on three major holy days for each faith—days when faith members may choose not to go to work or send their children to...

Calling all Hawkeyes! It’s time to nominate your favorite family for the 2024 University of Iowa Family Spirit Award.

The University of Iowa is collaborating with Green Iowa AmeriCorps and Johnson County communities to join 700+ cities around the world in documenting nature as part of the City Nature Challenge! You can contribute to citizen science during this global biodiversity challenge no matter where you are in Johnson County!  From April 26-29, 2024, take photographs of WILD plants and animals on campus, in your backyard, in parks, along city streets, on school grounds, or any place in Johnson County...

Reception April 26, 2024 at 5 p.m.

The public is invited to participate in a living collage of the artist's memories each weekday at noon (or anytime the exhibition is open for viewing).  Closing Reception: April 26, 2024 6–8 p.m.

Making the Book, Past and Present explores the intersections of history, art, and practicality. What can we learn by placing books, materials, and makers from the Middle Ages through today in conversation with one another? Many techniques and materials common centuries ago still inspire contemporary book artists and bookbinders.

Eine Kleine Lunch Music - Concert #69 Join us for our Lunch Series Concerts! University of Iowa School of Music Students will be performing in the Dusdieker Student Commons - Level 0. Learn more here: https://music.uiowa.edu/eine-kleine-lunch-music#upcoming-concerts This concert is free and open to the public. 

Prof. Guy Lloyd-Jones of University of Edinburgh Mechanisms, Molecules, Magnets The presentation will focus on the general theme of in situ mechanistic analysis, illustrating the application of isotopes and kinetics in the elucidation of structure, reactivity, selectivity, and antagonism in reactions where speculation has become accepted mechanism through citation-reinforcement. The mechanisms of reactions used in organic synthesis should ideally be studied under the conditions in which they...

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Want to join the City Nature Challenge but not sure about how to get started? This presentation will cover the history and basics of this international community science program and provide a tutorial on how to use iNaturalist. We will also get outside for a short hike to find and log organisms as part of the City Nature Challenge. After this training, participants should feel more confident to use iNaturalist on their own and will feel ready to participate in the weekend-long City Nature Challenge. 

Speaker: Laurent O. Jay, Dept. of Mathematics

The Department of Biology’s seminar speaker on Friday, April 26, is Aylin Rodan, an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Dr. Rodan’s seminar will be held at 4 p.m. in Kollros Auditorium (Room 101) in Biology Building East (BBE). Alan Kay is the faculty host. Refreshments will be available prior to the seminar in the BBE lobby.

DMA III Recital: I-Ling Emily Ho, flute This recital has been canceled.

Join us at 5:30 pm with the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program Alumni Reading Series! NWP alum and former Prairie Lights employee Lucas Mann will read from his new book, Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances, and be joined in conversation with author Melissa Febos. "Attachments is an intelligent and searching exploration of vulnerability in all its forms. Lucas Mann's essays attain a naturalness of form without ever losing their penetrating insight and gorgeous sensibility. Some...

Iowa Writers’ Workshop alum, Margaret Yapp will read from Green for Luck: Poems To subscribe to a weekly emailing list of Writers' Workshop events, please fill in the linked form or email iww@uiowa.edu with “Events Mailing List Subscribe” in the subject line.

FIERCE MUSIC BY WILLIAM MENEFIELD LIBRETTO BY SHEILA WILLIAMS DIRECTED BY WILLIAM MENEFIELD Friday & Saturday, April 26 & 27 / 7:30 p.m. Hancher Auditorium / Hadley Stage / Auditorium Seating Co-Produced by the University of Iowa School of Music, Performing Arts Production Unit, and Hancher Auditorium. TIckets: Adults $20, Youth & Non-UI Students $10, UI Students $5.

Senior Recital: Maninoa Courtright, voice Maninoa Courtright, voice Anna Chen, piano This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31022 This concert is free and open to the public.

Bassoon Studio Recital Students will perform solo and chamber pieces. View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3A31023 This concert is free and open to the public.

Every Friday after 8 p.m., students see any new release film for $4 at FilmScene!