A review of the annual report tops the agenda for the bi-monthly meeting of the Partnership for Alcohol Safety, to be held at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 13, in Room 203 of the Johnson County Health and Human Services Building, 855 South Dubuque St., Iowa City.

Chris Klitgaard, president and CEO of Coralville-based MediRevv, will speak as part of the MidwestOne Lecture Series at the University of Iowa’s John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center on Tuesday, March 26.

Award-winning journalist and essayist Lee Sandlin will read from "Storm Kings" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, 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.

Tessa Mellas and Kate Milliken received the 2013 Iowa Short Fiction Awards, announced by the University of Iowa Press. Mellas won the 2013 Iowa Short Fiction Award for her collection "Lungs Full of Noise." Milliken received the 2013 John Simmons Short Fiction Award for "If I'd Known You Were Coming."

James Bleakley, who designs and builds bicycles, will present the University of Iowa Museum of Art’s annual Jeanne and Richard Levitt Lectureship: American Crafts in Context on Thursday, March 28 at 7:30 p.m. in Room 240 of Art Building West. The event is free and open to the public.

Nick Benson, coordinator of the Iowa Initiative for Sustainable Communities (IISC), is making new connections between the University of Iowa and Iowa communities. Benson is working to expand the IISC into a campus-wide initiative. The IISC recently formalized agreements with four Iowa communities for the 2013-2014 academic year: Muscatine, Cedar Rapids, Cedar Falls, and Washington.

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds joined about 20 University of Iowa students for a crash course on medical devices for treating cardiovascular disease—and an introduction to new facilities that are changing how UI faculty teach.

The Hawkeye men's basketball team sports a gawdy 15-2 record at Carver-Hawkeye Arena this season heading into Saturday's season finale against Nebraska, putting the Hawks among the Big Ten elite at defending the home court.

Barbara Eckstein, Jim Giglierano, and Mark NeuCollins will present "The Arc, the Wall, and the Line: Mapping the People's Weather" from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 13 in 1117 University Capitol Center (UCC) Conference Room A.

Jeffrey Murray has been awarded a $450,000, three-year grant that will allow him to build on his past discoveries in the area of premature birth with the goal of improving health care providers’ ability to predict which women are at high risk of delivering their baby too soon.

H.S. Udaykumar and Meena Khandelwal will discuss their efforts to trace the linkages among forests, energy, gender relations, health, consumption, and culture, and between the local and global processes at 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 13 at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, 111 Church St.

Pursuing internships abroad is a growing trend at the University of Iowa with 162 students pursuing such internships for academic credit in the 2011-12 academic year.