UI Communication Sciences and Disorders professor Tricia Zebrowski and doctoral candidate Naomi Hertsberg will discuss how to measure readiness for change—both generally and as related to the management of teen stuttering—Tuesday, Feb. 4, at 4 p.m. in the UI Obermann Center for Advanced Studies.

Because few students understand how cell phones and other electronic devices are made and how they work, the University of Iowa Microfabrication Facility, part of the Optical Science and Technology Center, has established a course on the subject.

The brass area of the University of Iowa School of Music will host a free performance by the Marine Band San Diego Brass Quintet at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 10, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus.

Former Iowa Writers’ Workshop faculty Margot Livesey will present a free reading at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Glenn Schaeffer Library, adjacent to the Dey House.

Eric Anfield, a UI senior cinematography student, worked with a local director to produce a television pilot they plan to pitch to HBO or Netflix Originals.

Voice votes, common in civic and political decision making at all levels, can be skewed by a single, loud voice, according to a study led by the University of Iowa. The researchers propose locating everyone within equal distance from the vote recorder or controlling for sound on voters’ microphones. Results appear in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumna and former visiting faculty member Ayana Mathis will present a free reading at 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 10, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Glenn Schaeffer Library, adjacent to the Dey House.

Professor Craig Rodger has received a Fulbright Award to allow him to spend ''a whole lot of time'' with some of the world's top space scientists at the University of Iowa studying the loss of electrons from the Van Allen radiation belt into the atmosphere.

Keeping secrets from a loved one can put an emotional wedge in the relationship and change the way we communicate says Tamara Afifi, UI communication studies professor: "When we have a secret and mull it over, we develop stress and it makes our body sick."

The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts will present "Makeover," a new musical freely inspired by the lives of entrepreneurs Estée Lauder and Mary Kay, as its Iowa Partnership in the Arts production for the 2013-14 season. This work premieres at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6, in the David Thayer Theatre of the UI Theatre Building.

UI astronomy professor Steven Spangler says that having two new moons in the same calendar month twice in the same year, as we will in January and March 2014, is so rare he thought at first it couldn't happen at all.

Join the award-winning Iowa Percussion for a look at the art of creating music during a free concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 9, in the UI’s Riverside Recital Hall. The UI’s Arts Share and the Community Foundation of Johnson County are the sponsors of this annual concert.