Iowa Writers' Workshop alumna Jennifer duBois was one of the 10 emerging writers conferred a 2013 Whiting Writers' Award at a ceremony in New York City on Oct. 21.

Visiting professor Andrew Stewart will give a lecture, “Individuality and Innovation in Greek Sculpture,” Monday, Nov. 4, at 7:30 p.m. in Art Building West on the University of Iowa campus. The talk is free and open to the public.

The University of Iowa Opera Theater will perform "Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill" at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 8 and 9, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10, in The Englert Theatre in downtown Iowa City.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free recital by Mark Ponzo (cornet) and JeongSoo Kim (piano) at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7, in the University Capitol Centre Recital Hall in downtown Iowa City.

The top bands of the University of Iowa School of Music will take center stage with the annual Band Extravaganza at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5, in Carver-Hawkeye Arena. The Band Extravaganza is a popular showcase for the Johnson County Landmark jazz band, the Symphony Band, and the Hawkeye Marching Band.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free recital by the Tuba/Euphonium Studio at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3, in the University Capitol Centre Recital Hall. The recital will feature solo and ensemble performances by tuba and euphonium students of professor John Manning.

Construction crews set to build the future UI music building stumbled upon pieces of Iowa City’s past this month when workers found several pieces of historic artifacts, which archaeologists then spent a week excavating.

A group of UI 3-D design students has been selected to exhibit their work at Structural Objects Functional Art + Design, known as SOFA, an art fair in Chicago that attracts close to 34,000 people each year.

Bruce Gantz, head of the Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, directs a multidisciplinary center at the University of Iowa that is driving improvements in cochlear implant technology, developing new implants for deaf children and adults, and preparing the field for advances in regenerative medicine.

Kristy Nabhan-Warren, associate professor of religious studies in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will read from her new book, "The Cursillo Movement in America: Catholics, Protestants, and Fourth-Day Spirituality," at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City.

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds toured the University of Iowa's Bedell Entrepreneurship Learning Laboratory (BELL) and the UI College of Pharmacy Thursday at the invitation of student government leaders.

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and University of Iowa President Sally Mason announced today (Thursday, Oct. 24) that the UI and the Iowa Association of Independent Colleges and Universities will jointly develop an online Iowa history course and history resource website that will be made available statewide.