University of Iowa graduate Jeffrey Kueter has been named president and chief executive officer of the UI Alumni Association. Kueter currently is the president of the George C. Marshall Institute in Arlington, Virginia.

Death notices for current and retired UI employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available.

The University of Iowa hosts a grain silo rescue demonstration to promote greater safety in agricultural and farming. A professional will climb into a simulated silo filled with grain and demonstrate a potential real-life situation in which a person needs to be rescued from an avalanche of flowing grain. The simulation is Monday, June 9, at 5 p.m. at the UI College of Public Health.

Iowa Summer Rep will continue its rich history of summer play production with a touring production of Dorothy Marcic’s "Respect: A Musical Journey of Women." The production will be on tour June 14-27 throughout the state of Iowa while the University of Iowa Theatre Building is closed for major renovations.

The spring 2014 UI College of Dentistry commencement ceremony will be streamed live from "Iowa Now." Streaming will begin shortly before the ceremony begins on Friday, June 6 at 6 p.m. Archival video will replace the live stream on the "Iowa Now" page shortly after the ceremony concludes.

MusicIC returns this summer with a free, four-concert chamber music festival in downtown Iowa City Wednesday through Saturday, June 18-21. Now in its fourth season, MusicIC bills itself as the place “Where Music and Literature Meet."

Top high-school musicians from throughout the Midwest and other parts of the United States are converging on the University of Iowa for the 2014 Iowa Summer Music Camps. The camps, which run June 15-27, will include six free concerts open to the public.

A magnetic resonance imaging instrument weighing 42 tons—equal to six adult male elephants—arrives on Thursday, June 5, at the University of Iowa. The 7 Tesla magnet will advance UI research by yielding clearer, higher-resolution images of the human brain. The UI is one of only about 20 research institutes in the United States—and only about 40 worldwide—with the instrument. It also is the most...

Thirty-six years after launch, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft reached interstellar space in 2013. Renowned space scientist Don Gurnett will offer firsthand perspective on Voyager’s incredible journey during a June 16 Hawkeye Lunch and Learn lecture.

The University of Iowa Mobile Museum will roll into downtown Des Moines on Tuesday, June 17, where it will be open to the public from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. UI curators Sarah Horgen, Elizabeth Reetz, and Julia DeSpain will present a noon lecture about the museum exhibits and mission.

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Last season, the University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts produced a new adaptation of Molière’s "The Imaginary Invalid" that included new music and choreography from members of the artistic team. Go behind the scenes to see how this Mainstage production came to life.