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.

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.