Iowa City Police received a report of a strong-arm robbery at the north entrance of the Old Capitol Mall, which houses the University Capitol Center at 9:45 a.m. Monday, Feb. 3, 2014.

University of Iowa Staff Council’s service recognition program acknowledges professional and scientific and merit staff who have reached 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, or 50 years of continuous service. Longevity Award winners receive a certificate and letter of appreciation from the Office of the President.

The Martin Luther King Jr. Research Symposium will highlight 11 College of Education student poster projects, and Philip Kutzko, a professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department of Mathematics, will give the keynote address entitled “Becoming America: Dr. King’s Beloved Community,” Friday, Feb. 7.

Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Marian Clark will read from her memoir, "Sixty-Something and Flying Solo: A Retiree Sorts it Out in Iowa," at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15, 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 Department of History will hold a memorial service at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 4, for visiting assistant professor Jacob Dean Hall, 39, who died Jan. 29 at his home in Iowa City.

Watch out, infection. University of Iowa researchers have created a probe that can identify staph bacteria before symptoms appear. The probe is noninvasive and is expected to be cheaper and faster than current diagnostic techniques. Results published in the journal Nature Medicine.

A new study from the University of Iowa shows evidence that stock price movements are predictable in short windows, a finding that challenges conventional wisdom that stock prices moves randomly.

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Heather A. Slomski and Kathleen Founds received the 2014 Iowa Short Fiction Awards, announced by the University of Iowa Press. Slomski won the 2014 Iowa Short Fiction Award for her collection "The Lovers Set Down Their Spoons." Founds received the 2014 John Simmons Short Fiction Award for "When Mystical Creatures Attack!"

UI Staff Council’s service recognition program acknowledges all professional and scientific and merit staff who have reached 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, or 50 years of continuous service. Longevity Award winners receive a certificate and letter of appreciation from the Office of the President.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free concert by the UI Symphony Band and the Iowa Honor Band, composed of the state's top high school musicians, at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15, in the Main Lounge of the Iowa Memorial Union.

Poets Richard Kenney and Carol Light will present a free reading at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Glenn Schaeffer Library, adjacent to the Dey House.