Daniel Orozco and Michele Glazer, University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop visiting faculty in fiction and poetry, respectively, will present a free reading at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Glenn Schaeffer Library, adjacent to the Dey House.

Two of the University of Iowa’s most generous donors, John and Mary Pappajohn of Des Moines, received the Eli and Edyth Broad Award for Philanthropy in the Arts during the 2013 National Arts Awards ceremony in New York City.

Chan ignored the skeptics and completed a degree at the University of Iowa. Now he's giving back to help other students realize their dreams.

The University of Iowa College of Public Health is recognizing four leaders whose contributions across a range of disciplines are helping to promote better health and prevent disease throughout the state of Iowa.

UI Recreational Services is hosting a second round of adult tennis clinics designed to guide players at the beginner and intermediate levels of play.

A growing community of students, scholars, citizens, and policy makers is pushing to make open access the norm of scholarly communication, rather than the alternative.

The 13th Annual Iowa Organic Conference, scheduled for Nov. 17-18, will once again bring national experts, the latest in organic agriculture production research, and the voices of local experience together on the University of Iowa campus.

Student leaders will welcome Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds to the University of Iowa campus Thursday, Oct. 24 to tour the Bedell Entrepreneurship Learning Laboratory and the UI College of Pharmacy.

The first time UI graduate Michael Mast made chocolate bars from scratch with his older brother in the kitchen of their shared New York apartment, he knew they were on to something. Now, the siblings' craft chocolate is available worldwide.

There’s no place like home for Ryan and Kate Frerichs, who decided after the birth of their first child to leave Colorado and move back to Waverly, Iowa, and pursue their long-held dreams of owning a pharmacy.

What would it take for you to be famous in your field? This and other questions will be probed as Dean Keith Simonton, an Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor, explores the development of eminence, creativity, genius, and leadership. Simonton will visit the UI campus Oct. 30 through Nov. 1.

Come celebrate “The Woven Life” at the next University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA) First Friday on Friday, Nov. 1, from 5-7 p.m. at hotelVetro. The event features the work of local weaver Jan Friedman as well as live music by The Main Sequence.