Community activist, MacArthur Fellow, and author Bill Strickland will visit the University of Iowa and Iowa City community April 2 and 3.

Orrin W. Robinson III, Professor of German Studies at Stanford University, will present “White as Snow, Red as Blood: Girls and Women in the Grimms’ Fairy Tales,” at 6 p.m., Monday, March 19, in the South Room of the Iowa Memorial Union (IMU).

The University of Iowa’s Writing University website—www.writinguniversity.org—will carry live streams of readings by three UI-connected writers: Stephen Beachy on Monday, March 19; Honor Moore on Wednesday, March 21; and Kevin Moffett on Thursday, March 22. The streams will originate in free, public events at 7 p.m. in Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque St. in downtown Iowa City.

The University of Iowa has received a grant of nearly $100,000 to offer a professional training program for teachers of Russian as a foreign language in the United States. The program is supported by STARTALK, a National Security Language Initiative launched by the White House in 2006 to promote the teaching and learning of strategically important world languages that are not widely taught in the...

Businesses may be in a hiring mood if the numbers at February's University of Iowa spring job and internship fair were any indication.

Rod Lehnertz, UI director of planning, design, and construction, and architects presented initial plans for new Hancher, music, and visual arts facilities.