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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

The University of Iowa School of Journalism is adding video-game writing to its curriculum.

Writer Nathan Englander, an alumnus of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, will return as a guest of the workshop to present a free reading at 8 p.m. Monday, April 30, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Dey House.

University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumni will be featured in free readings at 7 p.m. May 2 and 3, in Prairie Lights books and streamed live at www.writinguniversity.org.

Organist Gregory Hand will be joined by trumpeter Amy Schendel to present a University of Iowa School of Music faculty recital at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 8, in Iowa City’s Zion Lutheran Church.