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.

Building on the success of its first high-performance computing (HPC) cluster, the UI is now building a second “supercomputer” that will be available to researchers early next year. The Board of Regents, State of Iowa on Wednesday approved the purchase of the new system, which will significantly boost the university’s HPC capacity from 3,700 to 6,132 processor cores.

Undergraduate enrollment at the University of Iowa is holding steady after last fall’s record high, with 21,974 students compared to 21,999 in 2012.

Priya Pennathur, assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, has received $671,951 for a three-year research project from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, to understand and model how health care providers create, use, and transform health information in their work.

The Iowa Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases when it convenes at the University of Iowa College of Law as part of the law school’s annual Supreme Court Day events on Friday, Sept. 20.

Phillip Lopate, the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program’s first visiting writer of the academic year, will read from his work at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12, in Room 101 of Biology Building East on the UI campus. The reading is one of several events scheduled around Lopate’s visit; all are free and open to the public.

A writer and a computer scientist will offer their takes on what lies ahead for technology, culture, and more during a special event that kicks off a yearlong look into possible futures, sponsored by the UI Obermann Center for Advanced Studies.

Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate Michelle Herman will read from her book "Stories We Tell Ourselves" at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19, 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.

Curtis Bauer will read from his new book of poetry, "The Real Cause for Your Absence," at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18, 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.