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Four University of Iowa undergraduate students and 20 UI graduate students have received Stanley Awards for International Research to conduct research abroad or pursue learning activities in international studies that are not available on the UI campus.

University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduates Karla Kelsey and Endi Bogue Hartigan will read from their new books of poetry from Omnidawn Press at 7 p.m. Friday, April 18, 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.

Moved by heartbreaking headlines, University of Iowa faculty and researchers join the national movement against bullying.

The ability to extract important information from a busy environment has long been thought to be a hallmark of human intelligence, but new UI research suggests that pigeons, and likely other creatures too, are also able to make quick decisions about which objects belong in certain groups.

Members of the media are invited to “Black Girls Do Science,” a camp for girls in grades 4-8 in which the girls do hands-on STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) activities. The event is Saturday April 12, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Seamans Center, hosted by the National Society of Black Engineers and the UI College of Engineering.

The University of Iowa Department of Dance will present "Wild Ones," a Dance MFA thesis concert featuring the work of Marie Brown, Jingqiu Guan, Marie Mortensen, and Dana Powers-Klooster at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, April 17-19, in Space Place Theatre, 101 North Hall.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free performance by the UI Symphony Band, conducted by Mark Heidel, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 17, in the Iowa Memorial Union Ballroom on the UI campus.

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.

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.

UI cello professor Anthony Arnone has teamed up with pianist Grethe Nöthling, a musical arts doctoral student at UI, to offer a series of free concerts for small audiences in people's homes around the state.