Fred Cook, CEO of public relations firm GolinHarris International, will speak Wednesday, Nov. 6, at 7 p.m. in 1505 Seamans Center.. GolinHaris International is owned by Interpublic Group and serves well-known global businesses, including McDonalds, Wal-Mart, Dove, Toyota, and Panasonic.

There is a generation of future Hawkeye hopefuls asking what they would do for an opportunity to wear the uniform and play women's basketball for the University of Iowa. Not many can top the real-life answer of senior Theairra Taylor.

Visiting professor Julie Napolin will discuss the challenges associated with transforming narrative into visual data Friday, Nov. 8, in her lecture, "Digital Faulkner: Mapping the Speculative."

Building urban wetlands could help to reduce nitrogen and phosphorous run off, UI geoscientist Arthur Bettis says: “It’s one prong of a multi-pronged approach to reducing the large nutrient load being exported from the upper Midwest.”

How should the Cold War be memorialized? This question forms the backbone of the Obermann Interdisciplinary Research Grant project of Sarah Kanouse in UI art and art history and Shiloh Kruper in geography at Georgetown University.

University of Iowa senior linebacker James Morris has been named a 2013 National Football Foundation (NFF) National Scholar-Athlete. The NFF and College Hall of Fame announced the recipients Thursday.

University of Iowa students in the Department of Dance have collaborated with writers in residence at the International Writing Program to choreograph new dances inspired by the writers’ works. A free, public performance showcasing their work will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, in Space Place Theater in North Hall.

Giving to the university means giving back to the community and the state, building the kind of place people want to live and work.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free performance by the University of Nebraska Brass Quintet at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 11, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free jazz recital by the UI Latin Jazz Ensemble at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus. The recital will feature music from composers Rafael Dos Santos (Brazilian pianist/educator and former UI jazz graduate student), Victor Mendoza, Ray Vega, and others.

Marina Warner will receive the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin in a public event at 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, in the Senate Chamber of the Old Capitol on the University of Iowa campus. Warner will be honored for "Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights."

Five poets included in "The New Census: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry," the new book from Rescue Press, will read at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.