Among authors who write in a second language, Yiyun Li may be best known to American readers. Li came to the United States with fairly rudimentary English to study immunology at the UI, but influenced by the writing community, she began working on fiction.

For the first time in decades, a historic University of Iowa building that once housed Grant Wood's studio looks much as it did when he taught there in the 1930s.

Christopher Newfield, one of the country’s most energetic analysts of higher education funding, will present a public lecture Monday, April 28, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the Iowa City Public Library. This event winds up the Obermann Center’s Designing the Future series while raising powerful questions about our own future.

Hannah Morlowe, a doctoral student in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' Department of Physics and Astronomy, has won a prestigious NASA grant to develop a gamma-ray burst polarimeter to study the light produced by explosions in distant galaxies.

During this Infertility Awareness Week, UI researchers Keli Steuber and Andy High say discussing the issue openly can help couples and their families: "Men, from what we can tell, choose not to talk about infertility. Usually the wife is the gatekeeper for the marriage," Steuber says.

University staff, faculty, students, and alumni are accomplishing great things every day. See who's making news with awards, publications, promotion and tenure, and more.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free concert by the University and Concert Bands at 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 5, in the Second Floor Ballroom of the Iowa Memorial Union.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free performance by the Jazz Repertory Ensemble, directed by graduate teaching assistant Eric Bush, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 1, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus.

Three unique artists, one common sentiment: the Grant Wood Fellowships at the University of Iowa have provided a wonderful experience. In advance of the Grant Wood Symposium on the UI campus, the trio discuss their work, the benefits of the fellowship, the direction they will take post-fellowship, and how their Iowa City experiences have exceeded expectations.

The University of Iowa School of Art and Art History welcomes the public to enjoy an evening of fun and culture at 2014 ArtsFest, which will take place from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, May 2, in the Studio Arts Building at 1375 Highway 1 West in Iowa City.

For more than 40 years, the University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts has presented an annual festival centered on producing, reading, and analyzing new scripts from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. Iowa New Play Festival 2014 will take place Monday-Sunday, May 5-10, in the UI Theatre Building.

University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumni Jane Mead, Larissa Szporluk, and Heidi Johannesen Poon will read from their poetry at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.