A day after a “red flag” weather alert delayed the work, University of Iowa Facilities Management Landscape Services staff began conducting a prairie burn at 8:30 a.m. today (Thursday, April 10) adjacent to Hawkins Drive and west of the Ronald McDonald House.

Searching for a visual journey through the blurred lines of reality? The 12th annual Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival invites people to explore the boundaries of documentary and nonfiction filmmaking. The three-day festival runs Thursday-Saturday, April 17-19, at Film Scene in downtown Iowa City.

The University of Iowa has created a Twitter account devoted to research. The @UIowaResearch account will act as the central node for research, broadcasting research news, events, and expert views from the university to myriad audiences central to the institution. The account launched today.

UI computer scientist and voting machine expert Doug Jones explains why mail, military, and overseas ballots may be rejected during an election.

A new UI student group, Food Recovery Network, will collect unused food from places such as dining halls that would otherwise be thrown away and transport it to food banks and homeless shelters.

David Michael Ryfe will be the next director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free recital by Jamaican pianist Paul Shaw at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 13, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus.

University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Michelle Huneven and Mona Simpson will read from their new novels at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 16, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.

University of Iowa alumni can make career contacts in a new online networking series from the alumni association.

Update 4/9 9:09 a.m.-Postponed. UI Facilities Management Landscape Services staff intend to conduct a prairie burn Wednesday, April 9, starting at 8:30 a.m., weather permitting. The prairie burn will occur adjacent to Hawkins Drive and west of the Ronald McDonald House.

As part of a heightened focus on fire loss prevention and risk reduction, the University of Iowa Facilities Management Department launched an extensive and systematic approach to extend fire system protection into its non-protected buildings and building spaces.

The new UI Mobile Museum, sponsored by the Old Capitol Museum, Museum of Natural History, and Office of the State Archaeologist, features exhibits about Iowa's ice age mammals, the founding of Iowa, and the state's "ancient agriculturalists" based in the Loess Hills.