The University of Iowa Opera Theatre will present "La clemenza di Tito" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Thursday-Sunday, May 2-5, in the Englert Theatre in downtown Iowa City.

Area middle and high school students’ original works of art garnered through new genres and techniques from University of Iowa art education students will be on display from 4-6 p.m. Thursday, May 2, at United Action for Youth, 355 Iowa Ave. in Iowa City.

Christine Sneed will read from her latest book, "Little Known Facts," at 7 p.m. Friday, May 3, 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.

University of Iowa faculty, staff, and graduate students are invited to participate in a workshop, Public Engagement in Higher Education, from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Friday, April 26 at the UI College of Public Health.

The University of Iowa is one of the 322 most environmentally responsible colleges in the United States and Canada, according to The Princeton Review. This is the fourth year in a row that the UI has been listed in the guide.

University staff, faculty, students, and alumni are accomplishing great things every day. See who’s making news with awards, publications, promotion and tenure, and more.

The University of Iowa Mock Trial (UIMT) team competed at the National Championship Tournament in Washington, D.C., April 12-14.

David Dowling will present “Escaping the Shallows: Deep Reading’s Revival in the Digital Age” from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25 for the Public Digital Humanities for Lunch series.

University of Iowa research has resulted in a discovery that may help physicians and other researchers to better understand normal inner ear development as well as diseases of the inner ear.

Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumni Lauren Shapiro and Kevin González will read from their work at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 2, 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.

R. Clifton Spargo, currently an Arts Fellow and MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, will read from his new novel, "Beautiful Fools: The Last Affair of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald," at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, 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 Social Work in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences announced the winners of the first annual National Poetry Contest for Social Workers. The purpose of the contest was to acknowledge the creative talent of social workers and to draw attention to social work as a profession.