A University of Iowa professor is encouraging Iowans to bring their memories and fondness for the state to a creative process that will inspire floats and more for an Iowa City Carnaval Parade. Four sessions of Carnaval Art will be held at the UI’s Old Capitol Museum beginning Oct. 4.

Geoff Dyer, a visiting faculty member in the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, will present a free reading at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3, in the Englert Theater in downtown Iowa City. A reception will follow.

The University of Iowa Department of Mathematics will present the third annual Rockwell Lecture, delivered by Suncica Canic, Cullen Distinguished Professor in the University of Houston Department of Mathematics, at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 3, in Lecture Room 1 of Van Allen Hall on the UI campus.

The Gallery series of the University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts will present The Rink of Red, a student production written by Eva Adderley and directed by Mark Smolyar, at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 5 and 6, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7, in the UI Theatre Building.

University of Iowa Muslim students, a UI expert, and members of the local community share mixed views on the now-infamous anti-Muslim video that sparked uprisings in the Muslim world.

University of Iowa political science professor Tim Hagle says that northwest congressional race candidates Steve King and Christie Vilsack will need to sway independent voters to win the district.

University of Iowa history professor Tyler Priest, author of The Offshore Imperative: Shell Oil's Search for Petroleum in Postwar America, comments on the setbacks the company has faced in reaching new oil reserves in the Arctic.

Students, faculty, and alumni of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop will perform “unstageable plays of daring and poetry” at the inaugural Iowa City Poets Theater at 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29, in Lower City Park's Riverside Theater.

The University of Iowa Symphony Band and Concert Band will share a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, in the Second Floor Ballroom of the Iowa Memorial Union.

Oct. 1-5 will be a busy literary week at Prairie Lights and on live streams from the University of Iowa’s Virtual Writing University website.

A University of Iowa study that shows people with damage in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, a part of the frontal lobe that often degrades in the elderly, was cited in an article on why elderly were more vulnerable to misleading advertising.

Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa and Mayo Clinic have received a five-year, $11.5 million grant renewal from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to continue the Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) for lymphoma research.