University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Chinelo Okparanta will read from her debut story collection centered on Nigerian women, "Happiness, Like Water," at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City.

Piano Sundays, a series of free public concerts presented by the University of Iowa Pentacrest Museums, will resume its 2013-14 season Feb. 2, in the Senate Chamber of the Old Capitol Museum. “Mostly Liszt” begins at 1:30 p.m. and features the works of 19th century virtuoso Franz Liszt.

Naturally 7 has risen to prominence while touring extensively with Michael Bublé. But make no mistake: This group has headliner power in its own right. The University of Iowa’s Hancher will present Naturally 7 on Friday, Feb. 7, at 7:30 p.m. at the Englert Theatre in Iowa City.

"Stalking: Know It. Name. It. Stop It." is the theme of an awareness campaign launched by the University of Iowa Anti-Violence Coalition in collaboration with a number of stakeholders running January through mid February.

Celebrate Valentine's Day with the cast of The Second City comedy troupe at a UI Alumni Association event at Iowa City's Englert Theatre.

On the morning of Jan. 25 University of Iowa Police received a report from a student that the individual was sexually assaulted by an acquaintance at a residence hall. The case is currently under investigation.

Jackson Pollock's "Mural," Iowa's most famous painting and one of the world's most significant and iconic Modern masterpieces, will return to Iowa this summer after nearly two years of conservation work by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles.

A University of Iowa phonetics website that has become an incredibly popular English as a Second Language (ESL) teaching tool is now available as a mobile application for iOS and Android.

Until cars can drive themselves, drivers will find themselves benefiting from advanced safety information systems, some of which are just around the corner and being studied by researchers such as University of Iowa's Mark Schall, a doctoral student in the UI College of Engineering.

The Operator Performance Laboratory in the UI College of Engineering and the UI REACH program in the UI College of Education are featured on the new Iowa edition of "BTN LiveBIG Iowa" airing Saturday Jan. 25, at 3 p.m. CST.

Paula Amad, associate professor in the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature, is the 2014 recipient of the Katherine Singer Kovács Award for Outstanding Essay. Her winning composition discusses the "return-of-the-gaze" phenomenon in nonfiction film from the silent cinema period.

Iowa Writers' Workshop alumnus Charles D’Ambrosio will present a free reading at 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 3, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Glenn Schaeffer Library, adjacent to the Dey House.