Writers’ Workshop graduate Marcus Burke will read from his new novel, "Team Seven," at 7 p.m. Monday, April 7, 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.

Know of University of Iowa staff members who have done something really great for the university, the community, or the state? Now's your chance to nominate them for some of the university's top staff honors.

Rabun Taylor, associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin, will present a lecture titled “Between Babylon, Rome, and Judaea: Gardens and Quotation at the Palaces of Herod the Great” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 3, in 116 Art Building West.

When we think about music from other countries, it can be easy to get caught up in a one-note stereotype. UI’s Hancher will present Sones de México Friday, April 11, at 7:30 p.m. at the Englert Theatre, where the folk music ensemble will share the full scope of Mexico’s varied traditions.

In honor of Cesar Chavez week, the Association of Latinos Moving Ahead welcomes award-winning artist Joaquin Zihuatanejo to the UI campus for a celebration of diversity and the power of words. Zihuatanejo will perform Wednesday, April 2, at Shambaugh Auditorium in the Main Library from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Clinton Street will be closed to through traffic from the intersection at Burlington Street south one block to Court Street, effective April 1 through August 26. Traffic should follow detour signs via S. Dubuque Street to Prentiss Street.

The University of Notre Dame announced today that it is awarding University of Iowa President Sally Mason an honorary doctor of laws degree during its commencement ceremony May 18.

Drinking two or more diet drinks a day may increase the risk of heart disease, including heart attack and stroke, in otherwise healthy postmenopausal women, according to a new University of Iowa study.

The University of Iowa Main Library Learning Commons, in conjunction with Craft Critique Culture, an interdisciplinary graduate student conference, is hosting a Social Media Boot Camp March 31-April 5.

Come join “Mission Pollock” at the next University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA) First Friday on Friday, April 4, from 5 to 7 p.m. at FilmScene, on the downtown Iowa City Pedestrian Mall at 118 E. College St. First Friday is free and open to the public.

Want to explore the story behind school lunches in New York City, dive to the depths of the Arctic seafloor, or venture into our possible future if we continue to pollute? The UI Museum of Natural History invites you along on these adventures during the Movies@MNH Earth Month Movie Series.

The Mission Creek Festival and Prairie Lights Books will present a free reading by Writers' Workshop alumnus Kyle Minor and University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program alumna Angela Pelster at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 3, in Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.