The University of Iowa College of Pharmacy will recognize its third endowed professorship Thursday, Oct. 3, with Dr. Aliasger Salem, associate professor and head of the Division of Pharmaceutics and Translational Therapeutics, being nominated for the Lyle and Sharon Bighley Professorship in Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Eric Lundgren will read from his comic and existential novel "The Facades" at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 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 performing arts component of University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Project Art will present a chamber music performance by internationally renowned artists at noon Monday, Oct. 7, in the atrium of the John Colloton Pavilion at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. The performance is free and open to the public.

A University of Iowa study shows that mothers with prematurely born babies benefit emotionally and mentally from one-on-one sessions with a hospital nurse. The pilot "listening visits" may provide a framework for helping pre-term infant mothers combat anxiety and depression. Results published in the Journal of Perinatology.

Several thousand people converged on Hubbard Park Sunday, Sept. 29th for the UI 23rd annual Celebrating Cultural Diversity Festival.

The University of Iowa has named Edwin Dove and Susan Johnson this year's recipients of the Michael J. Brody Award for Faculty Excellence in Service, recognizing their contributions to the university and the state of Iowa.

In his career as painting conservator, Barry Bauman has found everything from hidden signatures to entire paintings under other works of art. Those discoveries will be among the highlights of a lecture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10, in Room 240 of Art Building West on the UI campus.

University of Iowa Tippie College of Business professors develop new digital textbook designed especially for tablets to teach business law.

The University of Iowa’s Hancher will present the Jerusalem Quartet, one of the world’s most respected string quartets, on Thursday, Oct. 10, at 7:30 p.m. at the Riverside Recital Hall in Iowa City.

Fourth-generation pig farmer Paul Willis hadn’t planned to return to his family’s farm in north central Iowa after completing a psychology degree at the University of Iowa and joining the Peace Corps. But when his stepfather asked if he could help with the harvest in 1974, he obliged—and never left.

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Tori M. Forbes and Sara E. Mason, both assistant professors of chemistry in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, have each been selected by the National Science Foundation to receive a 2013 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award.