University of Iowa Professor of Physics and Astronomy Don Gurnett and research scientist Bill Kurth will present a free, public lecture on NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft and its historic encounter with interstellar space at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16, in Lecture Room 1 of Van Allen Hall on the UI campus.

In observation of the Sept. 11, 2001 anniversary, the University of Iowa Intellectual Dialogue Society, a student organization, will host a reading and a talk centering on the experience of being Arab and Muslim in the United States.

The University of Iowa is seeking to become a Blue Zones Worksite, and the last piece of the puzzle is a personal pledge from at least 25 percent of our employees to commit to at least one healthy behavioral change.

Fall enrollment is up at Iowa State and Northern Iowa and held about the same at the University of Iowa. UI President Sally Mason says the stable enrollment is by design, part of an “enrollment management” strategy initiated in 2008.

Distinguished international communication scholar Chin-Chuan Lee will give two public sessions on the University of Iowa campus Sept. 18 and 19, both free and open to the public.

The Iowa Latino Conference will take place at the Iowa Memorial Union Friday, Sept. 27. The conference features the Latino Professional Development Institute and the Latino Youth Development Leadership Summit.

Nearly 100 newly admitted undergraduate and master’s teacher education students will receive iPads and training to make the most of them. The gift to make this possible comes from UI College of Education alumna Linda Baker, a retired teacher living in Golden, Colo.

A recently launched student record system that was custom built by software engineers in Information Technology Services got a good workout in the first week of classes, and is performing extremely well. Fall of 2013 marked the first full-blown start-of-semester experience for the fully implemented system.

Several University of Iowa faculty are available to the media to discuss the economic impacts of the 2008 financial crisis, five years later.

Building on the success of its first high-performance computing (HPC) cluster, the UI is now building a second “supercomputer” that will be available to researchers early next year. The Board of Regents, State of Iowa on Wednesday approved the purchase of the new system, which will significantly boost the university’s HPC capacity from 3,700 to 6,132 processor cores.

Undergraduate enrollment at the University of Iowa is holding steady after last fall’s record high, with 21,974 students compared to 21,999 in 2012.

The Iowa Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases when it convenes at the University of Iowa College of Law as part of the law school’s annual Supreme Court Day events on Friday, Sept. 20.