A new University of Iowa program to bolster student scholarship support for Iowa resident undergraduates is the cornerstone of $260 million in student success initiatives underway at the university.

Dance Gala 2012, the University of Iowa Department of Dance’s major annual event, kicks off tonight in Space Place Theater. Iowa Now provides this peek at dress rehearsal.

University of Iowa President Sally Mason joined state and congressional leaders in praising the federal government’s decision Wednesday to reaffirm its commitment to provide $83 million for the replacement of Hancher Auditorium, School of Music, and studio arts buildings.

The University of Iowa’s student and community-based group TransCollaborations announces the schedule for the fourth annual TransWeek! Nov. 2 through 5 with the theme, "Organizing Against Transnormativity," a week that celebrates trans-identified people and gender variance.

Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumnus Jason Lewis will read from his first novel, "The Fourteenth Colony," and play music as part of a free event at 8:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 8, in the Times Club Café of Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City.

The University of Iowa has obtained NIH funding to study lower-urinary tract dysfunction, a condition that affects millions of men and women in the United States. The $1.8 million grant aims to better match diagnosis and treatment of lower-urinary tract dysfunction and patient outcomes.

Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumnus Nick Twemlow and Joel Craig will read from their poetry at 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 8, 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.

The University of Iowa Old Capitol Museum and Museum of Natural History—in collaboration with the UI Department of Geoscience—will host the eighth annual Creepy Campus Crawl this Friday, Oct. 26. This night of spooky fun is free and open to the public from 6:30–8:30 p.m.

The second production of the University Theatre Mainstage 2012-13 season, "Spring Awakening, A Rock Musical," will open at 8 p.m., Friday, Nov. 9, in E.C. Mabie Theatre of the University of Iowa Theatre Building.

Party for art at the next University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA) First Friday reception from 5-7 p.m. on Nov. 2, at hotelVetro! For $5, indulge in light hors d’oeuvres and drink specials from Formosa, and celebrate the “Spirit of Drawing” with local fashion illustrator Julie Johnson.

Following today’s release of a report from the Iowa State Auditor office regarding the alleged theft of $327,000 in computer equipment and lapses in financial oversight in the Department of Orthopaedics, University of Iowa Health Care leaders outlined corrective actions they initiated to address those issues, as well as a concern about documentation procedures.

For many Americans, the Qur'an is difficult to read, its organization obscure, its messages cryptic or even threatening. Professor Carl W. Ernst will discuss strategies for making sense of the Qur'an's complex text during a series of events Nov. 1-2.