The Oct. 8-11 readings at Prairie Lights Books and on Virtual Writing University live streams will feature two Iowa Poets Laureate, Marvin Bell and Mary Swander, and an all University of Iowa line-up.

The University of Iowa School of Art and Art History will present "Tall Tales from a Large Man," a lecture by graphic design artist Aaron Draplin, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3, in Room 116 of Art Building West.

University of Iowa astronomer and experiment principal investigator Craig Kletzing jokes that his wife calls the chirps and whoops captured by one of NASA's two recently launched Radiation Belt Storm Probes spacecraft "alien birds."

A University of Iowa professor is encouraging Iowans to bring their memories and fondness for the state to a creative process that will inspire floats and more for an Iowa City Carnaval Parade. Four sessions of Carnaval Art will be held at the UI’s Old Capitol Museum beginning Oct. 4.

Geoff Dyer, a visiting faculty member in the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, will present a free reading at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3, in the Englert Theater in downtown Iowa City. A reception will follow.

The University of Iowa Department of Mathematics will present the third annual Rockwell Lecture, delivered by Suncica Canic, Cullen Distinguished Professor in the University of Houston Department of Mathematics, at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 3, in Lecture Room 1 of Van Allen Hall on the UI campus.

The Gallery series of the University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts will present The Rink of Red, a student production written by Eva Adderley and directed by Mark Smolyar, at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 5 and 6, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7, in the UI Theatre Building.

University of Iowa Muslim students, a UI expert, and members of the local community share mixed views on the now-infamous anti-Muslim video that sparked uprisings in the Muslim world.

University of Iowa political science professor Tim Hagle says that northwest congressional race candidates Steve King and Christie Vilsack will need to sway independent voters to win the district.

University of Iowa history professor Tyler Priest, author of The Offshore Imperative: Shell Oil's Search for Petroleum in Postwar America, comments on the setbacks the company has faced in reaching new oil reserves in the Arctic.

Students, faculty, and alumni of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop will perform “unstageable plays of daring and poetry” at the inaugural Iowa City Poets Theater at 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29, in Lower City Park's Riverside Theater.

The University of Iowa Symphony Band and Concert Band will share a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, in the Second Floor Ballroom of the Iowa Memorial Union.