The UI Department of Dance will present "The Work Between: Collaborative Performance 2013" at 8 p.m. Dec. 5-7 in Space Place Theater. The event features an interdisciplinary performance created through collaboration of student choreographers, musicians, composers, designers, and stage managers.

"Iowa Now" will publish on a lighter schedule the week of Thanksgiving, Monday, Nov. 25 through Friday, Nov. 29.

More than 5,000 first-year students have been using Microsoft Office 365 for email since the beginning of fall semester, and second-year students will make the switch—which means larger mailboxes and a full portfolio of communication and collaboration tools—during winter break.

Poet, playwright, and translator Ariana Reines will present a free reading at 8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 9, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Glenn Schaeffer Library, adjacent to the Dey House.

Death notices for current and retired UI employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available.

The performing arts component of University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Project Art will present a concert of Middle Eastern and North African music by Salaam at noon Monday, Dec. 16, in the atrium of the John Colloton Pavilion at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. The performance is free and open to the public.

Zach Zwirlein of Coal Valley, Ill., was diagnosed with medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (MCAD) deficiency through the Iowa Neonatal Metabolic Screening Program, a partnership of the genetics program at UI Children's Hospital, the Iowa Department of Public Health, and the State Hygienic Laboratory.

David McCartney, University of Iowa archivist, has formed a group of historians, archivists, librarians, activists, and others from across Iowa to document Iowa’s history in the civil rights era by collecting oral interviews, journals, photos, letters, and any other memorabilia.

Mary Szybist, alumna of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, received the 2013 National Book Award for poetry for her most recent collection, "Incarnadine." Szybist accepted the award during a ceremony Nov. 20 in Manhattan, N.Y.

The University of Iowa takes the number six slot among the best colleges for veterans, according to the latest rankings published by "U.S. News and World Report."

University of Iowa officials are enhancing security and reminding campus technology users how to avoid being duped after a number of employees became victims of a recent “phishing” scam.

Graduate directors in the University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts will present their debut directing work over the course of two weekends, Dec. 5-7 and 12-14, in Theatre B of the UI Theatre Building. Admission is $5 (free for UI students with valid UI ID).