Jennifer duBois, an alumna of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, will read from her debut novel, A Partial History of Lost Causes, at 7 p.m. Monday, April 9, at Prairie Lights bookstore and on the Internet at www.writinguniversity.org.

Judith Linhares, 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, April 5, in Room 116 of Art Building West.

Jennifer duBois, an alumna of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, will read from her novel A Partial History of Lost Causes at 7 p.m. Monday, April 9, in Prairie Lights Books and at www.writinguniversity.org.

Every theatre production has light, but have you ever stopped to think about how it got there? We went behind the scenes of Big Love, the Department of Theatre Arts' current Mainstage production, to take a look at the process.

The University of Iowa will celebrate Iowa's most famous artist and faculty member, Grant Wood, with the Grant Wood Biennial Symposium, Grant Wood Today, April 13 and 14 in Art Building West and the Black Box Theater of the Iowa Memorial Union.

Veteran, actor, and writer Benjamin Bush will read from his new memoir at 7 p.m. Monday, April 2, in a free Prairie Lights reading streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website www.writinguniversity.org.

The debut novel by Writers' Workshop alumna Aimee Phan is featured. The book describes the experiences of Vietnamese relocating to the United States.

Author Nicholson Baker will be an Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor in the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Each year, 20 University of Iowa juniors are selected to receive the $5,200 renewable award from the Carver Trust. Part of the criteria is having overcome significant social and economic hardship while showing great potential and promise. Here are the stories of three Carver Scholarship recipients.

The annual Celebration of Excellence and Achievement Among Women presents some of the university's top honors for faculty and staff, as well as scholarships for promising students.

History alumnus James Erwin's Reddit postings were well-read; before long, his hypothetical time-travel military scenario (modern Marines fighting the Roman Empire, in the earlier era) landed him screenwriter duties on a big-budget flick.

Writers' Workshop alumnus Juan Felipe Herrera dedicates the award to "all the young writers who want to put kindness inside every word throughout the state, because kindness is the heart of creativity."