Science fans and art lovers will enjoy an upcoming free UI Alumni Association event at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport. Registration closes Sept. 12.

Los Angeles-based artist Brian Bress, a visiting artist in the painting and drawing area of the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History, will present a free lecture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, in Room 116 of Art Building West.

As a "smokin' Buckle Bunny" in True Cowboy magazine, actress/activist Tanna Frederick, a University of Iowa theater arts and political science alumna, joins the quest to save the wild American mustangs.

University of Iowa assistant provost Beth Ingram explains the UI's new multidisciplinary major in environmental planning and policy.

University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumna Jenny Zhang will be joined by Zach Schomburg to present a free poetry reading at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18, in Prairie Lights Books and on a Virtual Writing University live stream.

UI English and Writers' Workshop alumnus T.C. Boyle is still "effortlessly cool."

David D. Perlmutter, director of the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication, offers advice for conference interviews.

University of Iowa English faculty member Kevin Kopelson will read from his new book, Confessions of a Plagiarist: And Other Tales from School, at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 17, in a free event at Prairie Lights Books and on a Virtual Writing University live stream.

To help the 1,100 new first-generation college students on the University of Iowa campus, the UI seeks to identify first-generation faculty and staff to serve as role models and mentors to ensure these students succeed.

Poet Jared Stanley, an alumnus of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, will present a free reading at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14, in Prairie Lights Books, and on a live stream of the Virtual Writing University website of the University of Iowa.

University of Iowa alumna Jill Savage, host of a sports radio talk show in Oregon, says callers try to test her knowledge. "You have to be confident, especially as a female in the industry," she says.

Demolition in downtown Iowa City uncovered part of a mural painted in the 1970s by UI art students during urban renewal. A paid subscription is required.