University of Iowa space physicist Don Gurnett says there is solid evidence that NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has become the first manmade object to reach interstellar space, more than 11 billion miles distant and 36 years after it was launched. Gurnett is principal investigator for the Voyager 1 Plasma Wave Instrument.

University of Iowa Professor of Physics and Astronomy Don Gurnett and research scientist Bill Kurth will present a free, public lecture on NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft and its historic encounter with interstellar space at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16, in Lecture Room 1 of Van Allen Hall on the UI campus.

In observation of the Sept. 11, 2001 anniversary, the University of Iowa Intellectual Dialogue Society, a student organization, will host a reading and a talk centering on the experience of being Arab and Muslim in the United States.

The University of Iowa is seeking to become a Blue Zones Worksite, and the last piece of the puzzle is a personal pledge from at least 25 percent of our employees to commit to at least one healthy behavioral change.

Distinguished international communication scholar Chin-Chuan Lee will give two public sessions on the University of Iowa campus Sept. 18 and 19, both free and open to the public.

The Iowa Latino Conference will take place at the Iowa Memorial Union Friday, Sept. 27. The conference features the Latino Professional Development Institute and the Latino Youth Development Leadership Summit.

Writers’ Workshop graduate Alexander Maksik will read from his new novel, "A Marker to Measure Drift," at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25, 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 University of Iowa Center for New Music, housed within the UI School of Music, will present a free concert by violinst Wolfgang David and Center for New Music director and UI piano faculty member David Gompper at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 22, in the Senate Chamber of Old Capitol.

The University of Iowa Museum of Art is sharing "The Power of Line: Prints of the European and American Etching Revival" from the University of Iowa Museum of Art with the University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art. The exhibition opens Monday, Sept. 30 and continues through Monday, Dec. 2.

Nearly 100 newly admitted undergraduate and master’s teacher education students will receive iPads and training to make the most of them. The gift to make this possible comes from UI College of Education alumna Linda Baker, a retired teacher living in Golden, Colo.

A recently launched student record system that was custom built by software engineers in Information Technology Services got a good workout in the first week of classes, and is performing extremely well. Fall of 2013 marked the first full-blown start-of-semester experience for the fully implemented system.

Several University of Iowa faculty are available to the media to discuss the economic impacts of the 2008 financial crisis, five years later.