The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free recital by faculty member Jonathan Allen at 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, in the University Capitol Centre recital hall. Allen will perform on trombone and will be accompanied by School of Music alumnus Daniel Kubus on piano.

Maurita Murphy Mead, professor of clarinet in the University of Iowa School of Music, and graduate student Ze Emilio Gobbo will present the latest installment of the Distinguished Clarinet Lecture/Recital Series of Brazilian Music at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24, in Old Capitol on the UI campus.

The University of Iowa is joining forces with two health-care organizations in a partnership to improve care for patients with liver disease.

Susannah Longmuir with UI Health Care says that the goal of a recently published study is to identify children with amblyopia, sometimes called lazy eye, as young as possible so that they can start treatment before they have an eye problem or it gets worse.

Herbert Hovenkamp, who teaches antitrust law at the University of Iowa, comments on the impact of a pending merger that is likely to win approval between US Airways and American Airlines to create the world's biggest carrier.

Brilliant and controversial monologist Mike Daisey considers uniquely American visions of utopia with stops at some iconic locales.

Consumers wanting to know the cost of hip replacement will find it's difficult to find out ahead of time how much the procedure will cost, according to Jaime Rosenthal, one of the authors of a study published by JAMA in its publication, JAMA Internal Medicine.

The University of Iowa Department of Dance will present a faculty/graduate concert at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 21-23, in Space Place Theater in North Hall. The program will feature world premiere pieces from UI faculty and student choreographers. UI dance students will perform the works.

A new study published by University of Iowa researchers discovered that many hospitals are unable to tell patients what the cost of a hip replacement will be, and for those who can, the costs can vary widely.

Forty percent of top-ranked and 36 percent of non-top-ranked hospitals were unable to provide a price estimate for a total hip replacement procedure. Moreover, among the hospitals that could provide an estimate, the cost quoted for the procedure ranged from $11,100 to $125,798—a greater than ten-fold difference.

Wenfang Tang, a UI political science professor, says that compared with their predecessors, the new Chinese leaders seem to show more sophistication, confidence, and ambition in a CNN weekly column focusing on China's new austerity in response to directives from Beijing.

Are you ready to groove? The next free concert in the Arts Share/Community Foundation of Johnson County series will provide just the opportunity. “Groovin’ With Iowa Percussion,” led by University of Iowa School of Music faculty member Dan Moore, will take place at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus.