The University of Iowa’s Dance Gala 2014 will feature the best in dance and choreography – powerful energy, graceful flight, and electrifying performances – including those led by internationally acclaimed Department of Dance faculty choreographers Charlotte Adams, Armando Duarte, Jennifer Kayle, and Nichoals Leichter, along with special guest choreographer Esther Baker-Tarpaga.

National Weather Service Director Louis W. Uccellini will visit the Iowa Flood Center at the University of Iowa Wednesday, Oct. 15, to discuss ways the organizations can work together to advance their missions.

Free public events from the University of Iowa Alumni Association bring the expertise of UI faculty to Iowa communities.

The public was invited to come to the Hancher construction site and autograph a steel beam that was later hoisted into place. It will disappear from view as construction continues, but about 1,000 signers answered the call, thus leaving their mark on the new performing arts center.

Fredric Jameson will receive the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin in a public event at 4 p.m. Oct. 23, in the Senate Chamber of the Old Capitol on the University of Iowa campus. Jameson will be honored for "The Antinomies of Realism," published by Verso.

University of Iowa College of Engineering professor of biomedical engineering Karim Abdel-Malek has been invited to serve as a U.S. Delegate to an Oct. 15-17 NATO meeting in Prague, Czech Republic.

Nick Yablon, associate professor of American studies at the UI, gave a brief history of the time capsule as a tradition, calling it a fairly recent development that set off a "craze for sending things across time."

It might not seem like a natural combination, but Ira Glass, Monica Bill Barnes, and Anna Bass have some stories to share in their own unique ways. These three will join forces when UI's Hancher presents "Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host" on Saturday, Oct. 18, at the Englert Theatre.

University of Iowa President Sally Mason met with reporters Wednesday, Oct. 8 at Jessup Hall as part of her regularly scheduled media availabilities, discussing student success, affordability, and expanded scholarship opportunities to attract more high-achieving students and boost enrollment across the board.

Buddy Lazier, the 1996 Indianapolis 500 champion and driver of the No. 91 University of Iowa Stephen A. Wynn Institute for Vision Research Dallara/Chevrolet/Firestone car, will serve as grand marshal for the 2014 UI Homecoming Parade Friday, Oct. 10, starting at 5:45 p.m. in downtown Iowa City.

The University of Iowa’s Hancher will present the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center on Thursday, Oct. 16, at 7:30 p.m. at the Riverside Recital Hall in Iowa City. A stellar ensemble of musicians from one of the most respected organizations in all of music will join forces for this all-Brahms concert.

The UI Department of Theatre Arts’ first Mainstage production of the season brings together two Italian theater artists, a former supervisor for the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit, an experimental jazz music specialist, and an education sociologist in the Iowa Partnership in the Arts production, "Crescendo."