The University of Iowa Dental Alumni Association and the College of Dentistry have named Kathryn Kell their Alumna of the Year and Jerry Dean Walker their Educator of the Year.

Kerri Webster and Joseph Campana, winners of the 2001 Iowa Poetry Prize from the University of Iowa Press, will read at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, in Prairie Lights Books and on a Virtual Writing University live stream.

The University of Iowa Symphony Band and Concert Band will share a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, in the Second Floor Ballroom of the Iowa Memorial Union.

Winners of the Iowa Short Fiction Award and the John Simmons Short Fiction Award—Safe as Houses by Marie-Helene Bertino and Tell Everyone I Said Hi by Chad Simpson—will become available Oct. 1 from the University of Iowa Press.

Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa and Mayo Clinic have received a five-year, $11.5 million grant renewal from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to continue the Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) for lymphoma research.

University of Iowa film alumnus Robert Lorenz makes his directoral debut with the new Clint Eastwood feature.

The latest publications and presentations from the College of Public Health.

Richard Maibaum, a University of Iowa theater alumnus, was the writer who gave James Bond his wit in the celebrated series of hit films. Maibaum's papers are in the UI collection.

The University of Iowa awarded an estimated 850 degrees at the close of the 2012 summer session.

University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop alumna Naomi Wallace (along with David Lindsay-Abaire) is a 2012 winner of the Horton Foote Prize.