The University of Iowa Department of History will hold a memorial service at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 4, for visiting assistant professor Jacob Dean Hall, 39, who died Jan. 29 at his home in Iowa City.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free concert by the UI Symphony Band and the Iowa Honor Band, composed of the state's top high school musicians, at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15, in the Main Lounge of the Iowa Memorial Union.

Poets Richard Kenney and Carol Light will present a free reading at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Glenn Schaeffer Library, adjacent to the Dey House.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $3 million to the University of Iowa and 14 partner institutions to fund an innovative two-year project, "Humanities Without Walls." Faculty members who wish to take part in the collaborative are invited to apply for Obermann seed grants.

A spouse offering the "wrong kind" or "too much" support is more detrimental to a marriage than not offering enough support, according to new research by UI psychologists Rebecca Brock and Erika Lawrence.

UI Communication Sciences and Disorders professor Tricia Zebrowski and doctoral candidate Naomi Hertsberg will discuss how to measure readiness for change—both generally and as related to the management of teen stuttering—Tuesday, Feb. 4, at 4 p.m. in the UI Obermann Center for Advanced Studies.

Because few students understand how cell phones and other electronic devices are made and how they work, the University of Iowa Microfabrication Facility, part of the Optical Science and Technology Center, has established a course on the subject.

The brass area of the University of Iowa School of Music will host a free performance by the Marine Band San Diego Brass Quintet at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 10, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus.

Former Iowa Writers’ Workshop faculty Margot Livesey will present a free reading at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Glenn Schaeffer Library, adjacent to the Dey House.

Eric Anfield, a UI senior cinematography student, worked with a local director to produce a television pilot they plan to pitch to HBO or Netflix Originals.

Voice votes, common in civic and political decision making at all levels, can be skewed by a single, loud voice, according to a study led by the University of Iowa. The researchers propose locating everyone within equal distance from the vote recorder or controlling for sound on voters’ microphones. Results appear in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumna and former visiting faculty member Ayana Mathis will present a free reading at 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 10, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Glenn Schaeffer Library, adjacent to the Dey House.