Two-time Emmy-Award winner and University of Iowa alumnus Marcos McPeek Villatoro will visit the UI campus and local community Sept. 15-18 thanks to a collaboration between the UI Chief Diversity Office and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Adam Kruger never considered any place but the University of Iowa for dental school, and his post-graduation plans came naturally, too. He returned to northeast Iowa to practice with his dad and help his hometown of Oelwein chart new directions.

University of Iowa Recreational Services offers beginner and intermediate adult tennis clinics in September and October.

A new mobile app helps University of Iowa students access online services, track the latest news and events, and even decide where to eat or do laundry.

University of Iowa alumnus Ryan Bartelmay will read from his novel, "Onward Toward What We’re Going Toward," at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 13, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the UI Writing University website.

Two-time Emmy Award-winner Marcos Villatoro will present a free reading at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Glenn Schaeffer Library, adjacent to the Dey House.

Molly Barnhart transferred to the University of Iowa from Iowa State University, and you might think it had something to do with the Cyclone-Hawkeye thing. It didn't. She transferred because it was more convenient to attend class at UI while she underwent chemotherapy treatments for breast cancer in Iowa City, following a double mastectomy.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a performance by Kenneth Grant, professor of clarinet at the Eastman School of Music, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 13, in the University Capitol Centre Recital Hall in downtown Iowa City. The performance is a free, public event that is part of the Iowa Clarinet Festival held on the UI campus.

You may have heard terms like public engagement, civic engagement, public scholarship, community-based research or participated in discussions on the importance of outreach. And maybe you wondered what these words mean in the context of your work/life at the university and as an Iowa resident.

Author Natalie Brown will read from her debut novel, "The Lovebird," at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10, 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 School of Music will present a free faculty chamber concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus. The concert will feature the winner of the first University of Iowa String Area Competition winner: cellist Tom Maples, a graduate student of UI faculty member Anthony Arnone.

The American Chemical Society will hold a press conference to discuss the National Science Foundation’s support of a major climate change initiative at the Center of Aerosol Impacts on Climate and the Environment, based at the University of California at San Diego. The press conference will be held from 3:30 to 4 p.m. (ET) Monday, Sept. 9, during the society’s annual meeting in Indianapolis.