Fourteen staff members and six faculty members at the University of Iowa received awards for excellence in 2012.

Charles D’Ambrosio and Joyelle McSweeney will present a free reading at 8:15 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 17, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Glenn Schaeffer Library, adjacent to the Dey House.

Short, fast, and confidential, the Working at Iowa survey that launches Thursday, Oct. 11 presents an opportunity for faculty and staff to share their honest feedback on employment at the UI.

A University of Iowa team has discovered a new biological pathway in blood vessel cells, which may contribute to the blood pressure-lowering effects of TZD drugs used to treat type 2 diabetes. This finding may help to develop new therapies that retain the beneficial effect of TZDs but eliminate the adverse side effects.

Public Policy Center director and College of Dentistry faculty member Peter Damiano presents at the next "Finding God at Iowa" forum Friday, Oct. 12, at noon in the Ohio State Room (343) in the Iowa Memorial Union.

The University of Iowa’s Hancher will present "It Gets Better," an anti-bullying production based on the video project of the same name, on Friday, Oct. 19, at 7:30 p.m. in the Iowa Memorial Union Main Lounge on the UI campus.

Anthony Arnone, associate professor of cello in the University of Iowa School of Music, will perform with pianist Martha Eckey, a UI School of Music alumna and current UI College of Pharmacy student, at 3 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 14, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus.

Tim Hagle, a University of Iowa political science professor, says that if a third-party candidate has a national profile, the person can play spoiler in the race.

David Lohman, a University of Iowa professor of educational psychology, says that students often don't understand what they are supposed to do as part of a new test for admission into New York City's gifted and talented program.

Kevin Leicht, director of the Iowa Social Science Research Center at the University of Iowa, says that in the United States, the term middle class is more of a cultural category than an economic one.

Linda Kerber has arguably been the most influential pioneer in the field of women's studies in the past 41 years, say those who organized a weekend event in celebration of the retired UI professor's career.

Marianne Smith, assistant professor in the University of Iowa’s College of Nursing, was recently awarded a five-year Research Project Grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health.