College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Media experts on education affordability, policy, politics available

Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Several University of Iowa experts are available to media to share their expertise as President Obama visits campus to talk about college affordability this week.

Educators learning from each other

Tuesday, April 24, 2012
The University of Iowa is one of two institutions a delegation of Russian educators is visiting for an in-depth look at different facets of higher education, hosted by the UI College of Education's Belin-Blank Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development.

Choral groups will perform

Tuesday, April 24, 2012
The Women’s Chorale and Camerata of the University of Iowa School of Music will share a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 4, in the Riverside Recital Hall.

Biology student group holds fund-raising sale May 1

Tuesday, April 24, 2012
The University of Iowa Biological Interests Society (UI BIO) will hold a Plant Sale from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, May 1, on the Kautz Plaza, located on the T. Anne Cleary Walkway between Calvin Hall and the Pappajohn Business Building.

Christian inscription? Skeptics say they're random squiggles

Monday, April 23, 2012
Robert Cargill, University of Iowa assistant professor of classics and religious studies, challenges recent interpretations of markings on the "Jonah ossuary."

'Mayberry': Bold Hancher-commissioned play looks at race relations in Iowa City

Monday, April 23, 2012
The back-story of Mayberry, a play commissioned by Hancher that looks at race relations in Iowa City. Playwright Sean Christopher Lewis is a 2007 graduate of the UI Playwrights Workshop and lives in Iowa City. The soldout show runs April 26-29 at Riverside Theatre in Iowa City.

Sixth Raymond Fong Memorial Lecture set for April 27

Monday, April 23, 2012
Ed Callaway of the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, La Jolla, Calif., will be the featured speaker at the Sixth Raymond Fong Memorial Lecture at 4 p.m. Friday, April 27, in Kollros Auditorium, Biology Building East on the University of Iowa campus.

Silent-film era's illustrated songs come back to life at Cinematheque

Monday, April 23, 2012
Rick Altman, a University of Iowa professor of cinema and comparative literature, discusses the history of "illustrated songs," which introduced pop songs into silent films during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Dane Pratt working in the lab

‘They’re paying me in knowledge’

Monday, April 23, 2012
Dane Pratt started out washing dishes and taking out the trash in a research lab in the UI Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science. Now, he's designing and conducting cutting-edge pain research.

'Return to Mayberry'

Monday, April 23, 2012
A semester-long storytelling project will take place the day after the play 'Mayberry' concludes its successful run in Iowa City.

Inventing an opera

Monday, April 23, 2012
The University of Iowa School of Music will present its third free Improvisation for Classical Musicians event of the semester at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 8, in the Riverside Recital Hall.

Journalism adds video-game writing

Monday, April 23, 2012
The University of Iowa School of Journalism is adding video-game writing to its curriculum.