Joan Kjaer Kirkman will never forget the welcome her daughter received at the UI Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her family's experience inspires Kirkman to support the search for new treatments and, eventually, cures.

University of Iowa theatre arts alumna Tanna Frederick's Project Cornlight initiative, which aims to boost the film and performing arts industries in Iowa, will screen a rough cut of its first feature film, "Garner, Iowa," Friday, Oct. 25 at the Iowa Independent Film Festival in Mason City.

When fans show up for a Hawkeye football game, everything is as it should be. But readying Kinnick Stadium for a game requires a small army and hours of preparation.

A second $10 million gift commitment from Jerre and Mary Joy Stead of Scottsdale, Ariz., will advance children's medicine at the University of Iowa by creating four new faculty chairs and establishing funds to support innovation and leadership development.

Douglas Bauer will read from his new book from University of Iowa Press, "What Happens Next? Matters of Life and Death," at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, 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.

What better way to spend Halloween weekend than with morbid dreams and undersea monsters? From Oct. 31 to Nov. 3, the UI Department of Theatre Arts will present "Dreams I Have About Killing My Sister," a new play by third-year MFA playwright Lisa Meyers, directed by first-year MFA director Marina Johnson.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a performance by the UI Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of William LaRue Jones, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30, in the Main Lounge of the Iowa Memorial Union. The performance, featuring world-renowned violinist Kyle Dillingham, is free and the public is welcome.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free recital by UI professor of piano Réne Lecuona and guest artist (and former School of Music lecturer) Hannah Holman at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus.

Tax shelters are tax planning tools that help strengthen corporate bottom lines by reducing tax obligations, providing such significant benefits that many have questioned why more companies do not engage in them. A new study co-authored by a University of Iowa researcher suggests it has to do with a firm’s overall investment strategy.

Three professors in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department of Biology have been honored by the National Academy of Sciences for their work at the 2013 National Academies Northstar Summer Institute on Undergraduate Education in Biology held during July at the University of Minnesota.

A study by University of Iowa researchers found that patients who received mailed educational information about colon cancer screening plus a testing kit they could use at home were more than three times as likely to get screened for the disease as patients who received usual medical care.

In a special event sponsored by the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, Eliot Weinberger will read from and talk about his work at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31, 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.