The University of Iowa Swing Dance Club offers weekly workshops where participants can learn dances and music.

A University of Iowa research team has won $1.7 million to study fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, a wide-ranging set of adverse effects that fetuses may face from mothers who abuse alcohol during pregnancy.

University of Iowa staff members who wish to begin or continue their undergraduate education can apply for funding support from the Robert F. Ray Staff Scholarship, offered through the Division of Continuing Education.

During the month of February, students from the College of Pharmacy are taking part in a national competition to help as many patients as possible. The Script Your Future Challenge pits colleges of pharmacy nationwide against each other with the goal of helping the general public learn about medication adherence.

Some 200 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the President's List for the 2012 fall semester.

The Carver College of Medicine Rural Iowa Scholars Program (CRISP) embeds rural elements in the medicine curriculum through mentorships, seminars, research, and field experiences in smaller communities. Program graduates are expected to practice in a rural Iowa community for at least five years after completing a qualifying residency.

The University of Iowa Art Faculty Biennial Exhibition runs Feb. 23 through May 5 at the Figge Art Museum, 225 West 2nd Street in Davenport, and kicks off this Sunday, Feb. 24, with an artists’ reception from 3-5 p.m.

The University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program will present a free public performance by the Linden String Quartet at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 2, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus. The concert is part of the Linden’s extended residency Feb. 26-March 6 at the UI School of Music.

The UIowa Saxophone Quartet will perform works by Bach, Edvard Grieg, Jun Nagao, Camille Saint-Saens, George Gershwin, and Jean Matitia at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 4, in Riverside Recital Hall on the University of Iowa campus.

Joe Blair, graduate of the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, will read from "By the Iowa Sea: A Memoir of Disaster and Love" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 6, 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.

Author and humorist Julia Pandl will read from "Memoir of the Sunday Brunch," her debut book, at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 7, 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.

Leaders of University of Iowa Recreational Services announced today that a glass guardrail panel on the second level of the pool balcony in the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center broke late Tuesday night, sending shards of glass into the water and causing a closure of the main competition portion of the pool.