With the Cassini spacecraft, physicist Donald Gurnett captured sounds that to some sound like alien speech. (Editor's note: site is Ukranian; embedded YouTube video documents the space sounds.)

The Jazz Repertory Ensemble of the University of Iowa School of Music will celebrate the work of three major composer/arrangers in April 19 and May 3 concerts at the Mill restaurant.

The University of Iowa Center for New Music Ensemble will launch a spring tour with a free concert at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 19, in the Riverside Recital Hall.

University of Iowa Writers' Workshop graduates Vinnie Wilhelm and Nick Dybek will read from their work at 7 p.m., Wednesday, April 18, in Prairie Lights Books. The reading will be streamed at www.writinguniversity.org.

Robin Hemley, director of the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, will introduce his new book, "A Field Guide for Immersion Writing: Memoir, Journalism, and Travel," in a free event at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 19, in Prairie Lights Books and on a live stream at www.writinguniversity.org.

A UI student designed this year's Earth Day fundraiser T-shirt while deployed in Afghanistan with the Air National Guard.

Two graduate students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences received the Marcus Bach Fellowships.

Faculty members Judith Pascoe and Steven Ungar are among this year's list of Guggenheim Fellows.

More than 60 faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will be honored at a public celebration and reception April 16.

UI classics faculty member Robert Cargill debunks Discovery Channel documentary about the purported discovery of an artifact depicting Jesus's resurrection.

John D'Agata's book about fact-checking in literary nonfiction has become one of the most discussed books of the year.

In visiting painter Laurie Hogin's work, images of mutant plants and animals in overgrown landscapes examine themes like desire, pleasure, intoxication, and love.