Mystery writer and Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumnus Max Allan Collins will read from his new novel, "Target Lancer," at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 3, 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.

A study published in the prestigious Journal of Climate, the official publication of the American Meteorological Society, finds that tropical storms that make their way into the North Atlantic, and possibly strike the East Coast of the United States, likely will become more intense during the rest of this century.

More than 30 teachers from seven targeted communities across the state that experienced flooding will come to the UI campus to participate in the first ever College of Education's Interdisciplinary Flood Institute Nov. 29-Dec. 2 as part of the Living with Floods project.

The University of Iowa Council on the Status of Women is sending an online sexual misconduct survey to all UI undergraduate students today, Tuesday, Nov. 27.

The University of Iowa Department of Dance will present a collaborative performance by students from various arts disciplines at 8 p.m. Thursday–Saturday, Nov. 29–Dec. 1, in Space Place Theater of North Hall.

The University of Iowa Chamber Orchestra and the All-University String Orchestra, with graduate-student conductors Chun-Ming Chen, Hyeyoun Jang, Benjamin Nadel, and David Tedford, will present a free concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus.

The University of Iowa’s proud history of space exploration continues to the present day, with the UI having been a part of 65 space exploration missions, including the current Van Allen Probes mission.

Leaders, faculty, and staff with UI Health Care continually strive for innovation and growth in all of the missions on which the organization is built. Ensuring that the facilities and the infrastructure that support those missions continue to reflect that same commitment to growth and innovation is key to providing the best in education, research, and health care.

The conduct of research, scholarship, and creative activities is at the core of the University of Iowa's multiple missions of education, research, service, and outreach to the state, region, nation, and beyond. Here is a sampling of the advances made in research at the UI over the past year.

Sara Mitchell receives the 2012 Graduate College Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award in social sciences. She is professor of political science in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

K.K. Choi, professor of mechanical engineering, and WItold Krajewski, professor of civil and environmental engineering, are co-winners of the 2012 Graduate College Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award in mathematical, physical sciences, and engineering.

University of Iowa President Sally Mason introduces the 2012 annual report, which shares the scope and depth of the changing face of campus. Mason discusses the ways the UI continues to renew its campus in ways that allow students, faculty, and staff to lead and innovate in teaching and learning, research, creative endeavor, and service to our state and society.