The Oct. 8-11 readings at Prairie Lights Books and on Virtual Writing University live streams will feature two Iowa Poets Laureate, Marvin Bell and Mary Swander, and an all University of Iowa line-up.

The University of Iowa Research Foundation is making funding available for faculty interested in commercializing their research. Awards up to $70,000 are available.

Gay Men's Chorus of LA and the It Gets Better Project are to debut the musical It Gets Better on Oct. 19 at the University of Iowa's Hancher.

Total knee replacement surgeries have more than doubled over the past two decades in the U.S., posing challenges to controlling spending in the Medicare program, according to research published by University of Iowa's Peter Cram.

The University of Iowa is one of five higher education institutions partnering to create the Tanager Place Research Center. The goal is to pool expertise to help troubled children and their families through research projects that will impact policy and practice.

University of Iowa astronomer and experiment principal investigator Craig Kletzing jokes that his wife calls the chirps and whoops captured by one of NASA's two recently launched Radiation Belt Storm Probes spacecraft "alien birds."

Judicial review—the courts' power to strike down laws—is increasingly criticized in the United States, but promoted abroad. A UI College of Law conference will look at how one of America’s most prominent legal exports has become so controversial at home.

UI researchers find that total knee replacement surgeries have more than doubled in 20 years. The study, published Sept. 26 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests the growth is driven by both the increase in the number of older Americans and increased demand among older adults for total knee replacements.

University of Iowa College of Public Health Dean Susan Curry comments on the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s recommendation that clinicians screen all adults 18 and older for alcohol misuse and provide individuals engaged in risky drinking with counseling interventions.

Geoff Dyer, a visiting faculty member in the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, will present a free reading at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3, in the Englert Theater in downtown Iowa City. A reception will follow.

Thanks to expertise in the University of Iowa College of Education's new doctoral program in Couple and Family Therapy, the UI is one of five institutions partnering to create the Tanager Place Research Center that will help children and families with mental health care support.

University of Iowa Muslim students, a UI expert, and members of the local community share mixed views on the now-infamous anti-Muslim video that sparked uprisings in the Muslim world.