More than two dozen Icelandic social scientists from Iceland, Canada, and the United States will converge on the University of Iowa campus Aug. 12-14, to debate, discuss, and dissect the Icelandic economic meltdown.

Picture yourself as Napoleon Bonaparte or sit for a photo of yourself with a Hawkeye background. Dissect a virtual cadaver. Learn how to participate in biomedical research and actually do so. It’s all part of the University of Iowa booth at this year’s Iowa State Fair, Aug. 9-19.

The University of Iowa’s Virtual Writing University will carry a live stream when Paul’s Book Club discusses David Malouf’s novel "Remembering Babylon" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 15.

Visitors have only a few more days to see the popular exhibit “Insects: A Collection in Multiple Dimensions,” which will end its run at the University of Iowa Old Capitol Museum on Sunday, Aug. 5.

The University of Iowa College of Education's IHELP workshop series Aug. 1-3 will serve several hundred helping professionals from across the state of Iowa, offering courses on everything from how to help those with gambling addictions to veterans readjusting to life after combat.

If you’ve ever wanted to get inside someone’s head, here’s your chance. MEGABrain, the world’s only inflatable, walk-through brain exhibit is coming to Coral Ridge Mall in Coralville on Friday, August 3 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Roots rocker, "new country" songwriter, and author Steve Earle will read from his new novel at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 7 in Prairie Lights Books, with a live stream on the University of Iowa’s Virtual Writing University.

The summer may be winding down, but events at the University of Iowa Museum of Art are just beginning! Join the UIMA’s First Friday event at Stella Restaurant, located on Melrose Avenue just west of Kinnick Stadium, from 5-7 p.m. on Aug. 3.

The Old Capitol Museum will host the closing reception for "Art Iowa: Inspired by Landscape" July 26 in the Hanson Family Humanities Gallery. The exhibit closes July 29.

University of Iowa and University of Iowa Health Care units will participate in the Johnson County Fair this week, Monday through Thursday, July 23-26. Both booths will be in Building C at the Johnson County Fairgrounds.

More than 100 volunteers—faculty, staff, students, alumni, and just Hawk fans—will play a major role in the University of Iowa’s booth at the Iowa State Fair Aug. 9-19. Everyone's invited to join the cause.

Director John Cameron, faculty member in the University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts, discusses the challenges of making the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta 'H.M.S. Pinafore', first performed in 1878, relevant and engaging for an audience in 2012 ahead of its performance in Des Moines this weekend.