The University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of William LaRue Jones and featuring internationally recognized mezzo-soprano Katharine Goeldner, will perform works by Berlioz and Richard Strauss at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 2, in the Main Lounge of the Iowa Memorial Union.

Live literary streams April 24-29 on writinguniversity.org will feature two Poetry Month events and the book launch of a former University of Iowa engineering student whose comments to the Iowa Legislature made him an instant celebrity.

The Chamber Winds of the University of Iowa School of Music will present a free concert at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 25, in the Riverside Recital Hall.

Brazilian pianist Cristina Capparelli Gerling, a guest of the University of Iowa School of Music, will present a free lecture-recital, "In search of creative performance: a study of Chopin's Barcarolle op. 60," at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 28, in the Riverside Recital Hall.

Linda Maxson will step down as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the end of this fiscal year. A celebration of Maxson's 15 years as CLAS dean will be held from 4:30 to 6 p.m., Monday, April 23, on the Pentacrest in front of Old Capitol.

University of Iowa theater alumna TannFrederick, actress and philanthropist, is the winner of the 2012 CineCause Award at the Julien Dubuque Film Festival.

Leah Price, professor of English and chair of history and literature at Harvard University, will discuss force-reading in Victorian Britain at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 19.

Organist Dean Billmeyer, a guest of the University of Iowa School of Music, will present a free recital at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 22, in the Congressional United Church of Christ.

The International Chemistry Olympiad will be held in July in Washington, D.C.

The most famous operatic adaptation of Shakespeare’s timeless tale of young love doomed by feuding families will come to the stage of the Englert Theatre when the University of Iowa School of Music presents Romeo et Juliette by Charles Gounod April 26-29.

The collaborative community art project Stir-Fry, which uses art to focus on how people resettle into new communities and cultures, will culminate its semester-long activities with a series of free public events from 5 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, April 27, at the Iowa City/Johnson County Senior Center Assembly Room, 28 South Linn St., Iowa City.

Pianist Richard Shuster, a guest of the University of Iowa School of Music, will present a free recital of nine nocturnes by Gabriel Faure at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 22, in the Riverside Recital Hall.