University of Iowa School of Music students enrolled in String Chamber Music and Piano Chamber Music will perform free concerts at 3 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Dec. 8-9, in the recital hall in University Capitol Centre.

Starting Jan. 1, 2013 all campus telephone users will need to dial 9 to get an outside line prior to dialing an off-campus number.

Five University of Iowa College of Education faculty members gave a glimpse into their ongoing research at the first University of Iowa College of Education’s Research Colloquium Nov. 13 featuring Faculty Research Award recipients.

The University of Iowa will award honorary doctorates to John W. Colloton and Mary Louise Petersen, two UI alumni who’ve made distinguished contributions to health care, higher education, and public service.

Law professor Jim Tomkovicz looks at the legacy of the Supreme Court's landmark Gideon v. Wainwright decision after 50 years.

Shreya Ahuja and Emily Wechsler, 16-year-old high school students at The Hockaday School in Dallas, received an intensive two-week introduction to neuroscience at the University of Iowa last July. Melissa Duff, faculty member in the UI’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience, hosted the students in her laboratory as part of this pilot program.

Experience the sights and sounds of Steel Bands II and III during rehearsal in this multimedia presentation, and then go check them out when they perform Thursday, Dec. 6, on the UI campus.

If rocks could talk, two big ones on the Pentacrest would have plenty to say. Iowa City historian Paul Juhl takes a look at the origins of the two boulders that flank the sidewalk leading up to the east steps of Old Capitol.

The University of Iowa Afro-Cuban Drum and Dance Ensemble will perform at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 9, in the Space Place Theatre of North Hall on the UI campus. The performance is free and open to the public.

The University of Iowa Mock Trial team (UIMT) organized and competed in its annual home-turf tournament, the Cornshucker Challenge Nov. 17-18.

Auditions for the 2013 Ten Minute Play Festival, presented by the University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts, will be held from noon to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, in 206 Theatre Building.

The Electronic Music Studios, housed within the University of Iowa School of Music, will present a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9, in 101 Becker Communication Studies Building on the UI campus.