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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.

As a part of Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week, free screenings for oral, head and neck cancer are available from 8 a.m. to noon on Monday, April 29, at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City.

University of Iowa police say a package reported as suspicious at UI Hospitals and Clinics Monday contained a box of tea, some ginger and a greeting card.

University Counseling Service Director Sam Cochran says the University of Iowa community suffers an average of two to three student suicides annually. To bring the campus and local community together to prevent future student suicides, Cochran is leading the three-year $270,970 grant, “Leveraging Campus-Community Collaborations to Enhance Suicide Prevention at the University of Iowa.”

Intellectual property law is one of the hot growth areas in legal employment, and recent moot court competition victories show the University of Iowa College of Law is becoming an IP attorney machine.

You might be able to save a life if you learn to recognize the warning signs of suicide and know how to steer a student exhibiting these signs to appropriate resources for help.