Bennett Sims, graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, will read from "A Questionable Shape" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 1, 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 art professor Steve McGuire will talk about bikes when the University of Iowa Museum of Art presents the second Elliott Society Lecture of the semester on Thursday, May 2 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at Art Building West (ABW), Room 240. McGuire’s lecture, "Design It, Build It, Ride It — A Titanium Bicycle," is free and open to the public. McGuire is professor of 3-D design and metal...

The University of Iowa’s on-site generation of green power helped boost the Big Ten Conference to overall conference champion in the 2012-2013 Green Power Challenge.

A conference at the University of Iowa College of Law later this month hopes to properly introduce scholars in the law and social sciences who study race, but not with each other.

The University of Iowa Center for New Music will present Composers Workshop II, a free concert featuring the work of composition students in the UI School of Music, at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 28, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus.

William Kent Krueger will read from the New York Times best-seller "Trickster’s Point" at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 30, 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.

An ankle replacement device conceived originally at the University of Iowa debuted this week at the 2013 American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons annual meeting in Chicago.

The University of Iowa football team views spring practice as a time for development. Members of the team have taken that view to the community this month, sharing the message of literature with Iowa City youth.

Iowa Writers' Workshop alumna Erica Bernheim and Chris Dombrowski will read from their poetry at 7 p.m. Monday, April 29, 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.

What were mammals eating during the Age of Dinosaurs and what can we learn about their diets from studying fossils of their teeth? Those and other questions will be answered as the "The Fossil Guy" series continues Saturday, April 27, at 2 p.m. at the UI Museum of Natural History.

According to googlescholar.com, Pascarella’s work has been cited more than 22,000 times and the number increases daily. This makes him the third-most cited scholar at the University of Iowa and ranks him approximately 576th among all scholars with an email address ending in .edu on the site.

Russell Banks, an Ida Beam Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, will present a free reading at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 25, in Room 1505 of the Seamans Center for the Engineering Arts and Sciences on the UI campus.