This Thanksgiving, no one will be without a place to gather for good food, conversation, and the opportunity to give thanks. The University of Iowa is hosting a traditional Thanksgiving dinner Thursday, Nov. 28, from 3 to 5 p.m. at Old Brick. Though free and open to the UI community, advance registration is necessary, and volunteers are still invited to help.

Faculty, staff, and students leaving the University of Iowa campus over the Thanksgiving break are urged to unplug and power down to reduce campus energy consumption.

The pattern of repeating stairwells is briefly interrupted by a woman walking down from University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics' Parking Ramp 4 on her way to bring cheer and flowers to a clinic patient.

The UI Department of Dance will present "The Work Between: Collaborative Performance 2013" at 8 p.m. Dec. 5-7 in Space Place Theater. The event features an interdisciplinary performance created through collaboration of student choreographers, musicians, composers, designers, and stage managers.

"Iowa Now" will publish on a lighter schedule the week of Thanksgiving, Monday, Nov. 25 through Friday, Nov. 29.

More than 5,000 first-year students have been using Microsoft Office 365 for email since the beginning of fall semester, and second-year students will make the switch—which means larger mailboxes and a full portfolio of communication and collaboration tools—during winter break.

Poet, playwright, and translator Ariana Reines will present a free reading at 8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 9, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Glenn Schaeffer Library, adjacent to the Dey House.

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

The performing arts component of University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Project Art will present a concert of Middle Eastern and North African music by Salaam at noon Monday, Dec. 16, in the atrium of the John Colloton Pavilion at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. The performance is free and open to the public.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free concert by the University Band and Concert Band at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 2, in the Iowa Memorial Union Ballroom.

Two years ago, Dennis Nack was receiving hospice care as his family and friends said what they believed were last good-byes. Today, Dennis has a new lease on life—and he’s giving thanks to his care team in the lung transplant program at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

Zach Zwirlein of Coal Valley, Ill., was diagnosed with medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (MCAD) deficiency through the Iowa Neonatal Metabolic Screening Program, a partnership of the genetics program at UI Children's Hospital, the Iowa Department of Public Health, and the State Hygienic Laboratory.