The St. Lawrence String Quartet is one of the world's great ensembles, and in this Hancher performance the music celebrates another famed ensemble.

Daniel Reed, the UI's new vice president for research and economic development, seeks to provide the "seed corn" to expand research programs at the UI and accelerate promising advances into the marketplace.

"The Selected Letters of Elizabeth Stoddard," edited by Jennifer Putzi and Elizabeth Stockton, is now available from the University of Iowa Press.

Pilobolus Dance Theatre has performed for nearly 20,000 people in Iowa City over the years. This time, however, the famed company will perform for intimate audiences.

"The Iowa Lakeside Laboratory: A Century of Discovering the Nature of Nature" by Michael J. Lannoo is now available in paperback from the Bur Oak Books series of the University of Iowa Press.

Pianist Michael Brown and cellist Nicholas Canellakis, both of New York, will perform in the atrium of the John Colloton Pavilion at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics at noon Monday, Nov. 19. The performance is free and open to the public.

The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts will hold open auditions Nov. 10-15 for more than 75 roles in 10 spring productions. General auditions will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, and from 6 to 10 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11. Callbacks will be held from 6 to 11 p.m. Monday-Thursday, Nov. 12-15.

On Tuesday, Nov. 27, the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine will host a Mini Medical School program, "Personal Genetic Information: Its Power, Promise, and Problems."

The Old Capitol Museum is beginning its fall film screening series Thursday, Nov. 8, with "Love and Valor." The free movie and film director’s talk will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. in Macbride Auditorium.

When University of Iowa law professor Enrique Carrasco reads a legal case about contract law, he doesn’t see a dry recitation of facts and obligations. He sees drama.

Join us at the University of Iowa Old Capitol Museum on Wednesday, Nov. 14, for an evening of trivia for students and adults, and craft making fun for kids. The doors open at 4:45 p.m. Trivia starts at 5 p.m. with snacks and refreshments for everyone, and prizes for winners.

University of Iowa alumna Ethel Kjaer Barker, an author and a retired reading educator in Iowa City, will read from "For the Love of Pete" at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, 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.