The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free performance by the Iowa Brass Quintet, the resident faculty brass ensemble, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free performance by the Iowa Brass Quintet, the resident faculty brass ensemble, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 16, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus. School of Music instructor Jonathan Allen will join the quintet on several pieces.

Sang-Seok Yoon, a Korean language professor at the University of Iowa, is one of a number of people in Iowa with ties to the Korean peninsula who commented on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's threats to attack South Korea and the United States.

UI industrial engineering doctoral student Howard Chen built a 3D bio printer at the UI's College of Engineering’s Center for Computer Aided Design's Biomanufacturing Laboratory. At the UI, 3D printing technology is being integrated into student learning in many ways.

From Iowa Alumni Magazine: a courageous young boy's perspective on the Holocaust.

The University of Iowa hosts a free, public screening of the film "The Waiting Room," a character-driven documentary that captures the raw reality of the uninsured patients and doctors and staff at Highland Hospital, a safety-net hospital in Oakland, Ca. The event takes place at 7 p.m. in the HNI Auditorium of the Pomerantz Center and is sponsored by the UI's Public Policy Center.

Directing a theater production is a bit of a balancing act. Kristin Clippard has walked this tightrope many times, and loves every minute of it. She will direct "She Stoops to Conquer," the final production of the 2012-2013 University Theatres Mainstage season; the show opens April 19 in E.C. Mabie Theatre.

Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Sanford Goldberg, will deliver a public lecture titled “Thinking for Oneself: Testimony, Epistemic Dependence, and the Aims of Education” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11, in Room 107 in the English-Philosophy Building.

Cristina Ortiz grew up as part of the lone Latino family in Leon, Iowa. The UI anthropology graduate student now lives in Columbus Junction, Iowa, and is researching the growing Chin Burmese refugee population that lives in this community. She will present her research Friday, April 5 as part of a panel presentation during the Refugees in the Heartland Provost's Global Forum.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present “Music Through the Centuries,” a free concert of music for organ, harpsichord, and voice, at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 13, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus. Students will sing a variety of solo vocal music from composers Monteverdi, Purcell, Handel, Bach, Boulanger, Faure, and Davidson.

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 11, in the Second Floor Ballroom of the Iowa Memorial Union on the UI campus.

Writers' Workshop alumni Shane McCrae and Carmen Giménez Smith will read from their poetry at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, 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.