For 8 years, Bryan Brown attended speech therapy classes and while he still stutters, he not only has better control of it, but says it's made him who he is today; a speech pathologist studying at the University of Iowa, a world famous center for stuttering research.

Mothers who have one-on-one sessions with nurses after having a premature birth are found to decrease their postpartum symptoms, according to a UI study.

We all find ways to kill time while in waiting rooms. In the case of music faculty Anthony Arnone, why not play some cello while waiting for his car to be serviced? Positive reactions inspired Arnone to start a new project, "Bach to Work." He visited several public spaces this fall, providing the beauty of art in unexpected places.

Along with Hancher, the UI’s School of Music started construction recently. Both are major flood recovery projects on campus that are expected to be completed in 2016.

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.