Five Iowa City residents and a downtown development group were honored this week for their support of the University of Iowa Museum of Art. UI President Sally Mason and UI Museum of Art Executive Director Sean O’Harrow presented the awards at a reception held Wednesday, Sept. 18.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a jam session by jazz faculty members from 8 to 10 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5, at George’s, 312 E. Market St. in downtown Iowa City. The performance, part of a monthly series, is free and open to the public.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a jam session by jazz faculty members from 8 to 10 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1, at George’s, 312 E. Market St. in downtown Iowa City. The performance, part of a monthly series, is free and open to the public.

Harpsichordist Jory Vinikour, 2012 Grammy nominee in the field of classical music, will present a free concert in Iowa City at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 22, in Riverside Recital Hall on the University of Iowa campus.

The University of Iowa Wendell Johnson Speech and Hearing Center will co-sponsor FRIENDS Day, a conference for children and teens who stutter, their family members, and clinicians Saturday, Oct. 5 at Heartland Area Education Agency 11 in Johnston.

Kate Greenstreet, John Gallaher, and Richard Meier will read from their poetry at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27, 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.

Pulitzer Prize winner and former Writers’ Workshop graduate and instructor Paul Harding will read from his new novel, "Enon," at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26, 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.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free performance by the UI Symphony Orchestra, conducted by William LaRue Jones, director of orchestral studies, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 24, in the Main Lounge of the Iowa Memorial Union.

Two Emmy Award-winning writers. A space explorer with an asteroid named for him. A federal judge. An international choreographer. A battleship commander and presidential aide. What do they have in common? They're all UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences alumni, and they're on campus this week.

S.T.A.T. (Students Today, Alumni Tomorrow) provided fans of the Iowa Hawkeyes with a wonderful experience Thursday, Sept. 12, hosting the Beat State Week Pep Rally on the Pentacrest.

The University of Iowa School of Art and Art History will present “Exuberant Politics,” a series of events involving Josh MacPhee, a printmaker, curator, writer, and activist who uses art to inject protest politics into public discourse, Sept. 23-28 in Iowa City.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present War and Patriotic Songs, a performance by Professor Katherine Eberle and students from her studio, at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 22, in the University Capitol Centre Recital Hall. The concert, which will feature Jason Sifford on piano, is free and open to the public.