The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts will produce "Slaughter City," a work by University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop Graduate Naomi Wallace, as its next Mainstage production. "Slaughter City" will be on stage at 8 p.m. April 10-12 and April 16-19, and at 2 p.m. April 13 and 20.

Cynthia Brinich-Langlois, Virginia A. Myers Visiting Assistant Professor in Printmaking, will give a lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 9, in Room 116 Art Building West. She will show her work in the Ark Gallery of Studio Arts Building April 7-12.

Pinecone or pine nut? Friend or foe? Distinguishing between the two requires that we pay special attention to the telltale characteristics of each. And humans aren’t the only ones up to the task. According to UI researchers, pigeons share our ability to place everyday things in categories. Results are published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology.

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.