University of Iowa Recreational Services is offering Bootcamp, a fitness class that combines functional sports training exercises, metabolic conditioning, and partner and group training exercises.

Tucked away between fields of corn and undulating hills is the town of Kalona, a countryside haven that’s done more than embody the good old days—it’s never left them.

Michaela Inman had just made a competitive gymnastics team. She was spending more time in the gym and running frequently. So when she began complaining of pain in her right ankle in May 2011, Michaela’s parents and local pediatrician thought it was nothing more than a sprain.

The College of Dentistry at the University of Iowa has been awarded a $1.6 million federal grant to operate a dentist-scientist training program. The program, run by dentistry professor Christopher Squier, has been funded continuously since 1985.

The 2013-14 season of International Programs’ WorldCanvass series begins with a program focused on human rights and the arts. The live event takes place on Friday, Sept. 20, from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Senate Chamber of the Old Capitol Museum.

Claudia Beverly, a national gerontological policy expert, will give two lectures and be available for media interviews as an Ida Cordelia Beam Visiting Professor in September.

"Others Had It Worse: Sour Dock, Moonshine, and Hard Times in Davis County, Iowa" by Chris Baker, alumnus of the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication, is now available from the University of Iowa Press.

The Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development at the University of Iowa has named two faculty to the newly created Administrative Research Fellows Program. The two chosen are Meenakshi Gigi Durham, professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and Thomas Scholz, a doctor and pediatrics professor in the Carver College of Medicine.

University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumnus Peter Orner will present a free reading at 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Glenn Schaeffer Library, adjacent to the Dey House. He will read from "Last Car Over Sagamore Bridge," his second collection of short stories.

The Partnership for Alcohol Safety will discuss Iowa City’s 21-only ordinance for alcohol consumption at its bi-monthly meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 11, beginning at 3:30 p.m. in Room 2390 of the University Capitol Centre in downtown Iowa City.

A recent gift from Matthew and Kay Bucksbaum, of Chicago, Ill., will support a University of Iowa Museum of Art collection-sharing project that began after a historic 2008 flood damaged the museum and 21 other campus buildings.

Although microbes that live in the so-called “dark ocean”—below a depth of some 600 feet where light doesn’t penetrate—may not absorb enough carbon to curtail global warming, they do absorb considerable amounts of carbon and merit further study.