The National Iowa Varsity Club has extended the registration deadline for its inaugural Fitness for Life run to Wednesday, June 27. The one-mile Fun Run and 5K events will be held Saturday, June 30, at the Ashton Cross Country Course in Iowa City.

With the Fourth of July falling in the middle of the week, the UIMA@IMU, a visual classroom of the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be closed on Monday, July 2 and Wednesday, July 4.

Poet Elizabeth Robinson will read from her newest collection at 7 p.m. Friday, June 29, in Prairie Lights Books and on the Writing University website of the University of Iowa.

Eric Goodman will read from his new novel about love and identity theft at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 26, in Prairie Lights Books and live on the University of Iowa’s Writing University website.

The Woman in Black, adapted by Stephen Malltratt from the book by Susan Hill, is the second production in the 2012 Iowa Summer Rep season of “Chills and Thrills.” It will open at 8 p.m. Thursday, June 28, in the David Thayer Theatre of the University of Iowa Theatre Building.

University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumnus Andrew Malan Milward will read from his prize-winning collection of short stories, "The Agriculture Hall of Fame," at 7 p.m. Monday, June 25.

The University of Iowa's Obermann Center conference on "Get Ready, Iowa" is cited as an example of a new emphasis on "civic science" in column co-written by UI's John Spencer.

Local author Martin Robillard will read from Damaged From The Inside Out: Life After a Traumatic Brain Injury at 4 p.m. Saturday, June 23, in Prairie Lights Books and through a live stream on the Writing University website of the University of Iowa.

The University of Iowa Opera Theater production of H.M.S. Pinafore will dock at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts July 13-15. The following weekend, July 20-21, the production will be presented at the Hoyt Sherman Place in Des Moines.

The National Iowa Varsity Club is hosting a "Fitness for Life" run Saturday, June 30, at the Ashton Cross Country Course in Iowa City. The "Fitness for Life" initiative is designed to develop positive habits that will lead to a lifetime of healthy choices and active lifestyles for athletes of all ages.

Poet and neurologist Dawn McGuire will read from her new collection June 22 at Prairie Lights Books.

Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumnus and former faculty member Anthony Swofford returns to Iowa City to read from his new memoir.