Several University of Iowa groups are working with the City of Iowa City to organize an Iowa River Cleanup project on Saturday, Oct. 12, from 9 a.m. to noon. Volunteers, age 18 or over, are invited to help pick up trash along the banks of the Iowa River.

Carl Klaus, founder of the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program and professor emeritus, will read from "A Self Made of Words" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the UI Writing University website.

The University of Iowa International Writing Program, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and Prairie Lights Books will host a reading to commemorate the life and works of Irish poet Seamus Heaney, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8, in Room 100 of Phillips Hall on the UI campus.

Five weeks into the 2013 college football season, the Baylor University Bears are the most productive team according to a weekly ranking that measures offensive and defensive production compiled by a University of Iowa economist.

A survey conducted by the Public Policy Center at the University of Iowa shows that while most children in Iowa have a medical home base, some are being left behind, including those with special-needs, on public insurance, or who are African-American. A webinar on the findings will be Friday, Oct. 4 at 2 p.m.

Friends of teens are the most significant risk factor for adolescents having that first drink too early. UI psychiatry professor Samuel Kuperman says a teen's friend might be the biggest risk factor for starting drinking ahead of family history and social behavior.

UI physicist Donald Gurnett is pleased that the Voyager I spacecraft’s plasma wave instrument, built by his own University of Iowa research group, was able to provide evidence of the leap into interstellar space.

The University of Iowa College of Pharmacy will recognize its third endowed professorship Thursday, Oct. 3, with Dr. Aliasger Salem, associate professor and head of the Division of Pharmaceutics and Translational Therapeutics, being nominated for the Lyle and Sharon Bighley Professorship in Pharmaceutical Sciences.

A University of Iowa study shows that mothers with prematurely born babies benefit emotionally and mentally from one-on-one sessions with a hospital nurse. The pilot "listening visits" may provide a framework for helping pre-term infant mothers combat anxiety and depression. Results published in the Journal of Perinatology.

Several thousand people converged on Hubbard Park Sunday, Sept. 29th for the UI 23rd annual Celebrating Cultural Diversity Festival.

University of Iowa leaders say they’re planning their sharp new Art Building based on an 80-year-old idea developed here—the “radical project” of melding art practice and art theory in the same space. (Note: A paid subscription may be required.)

Lung transplant patients and their families walked alongside their physicians from University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics' transplant center Saturday at the American Lung Association's Fight for Air Walk in Des Moines.