"A World of Citizens: Women, History, and the Vision of Linda K. Kerber," will take place Friday and Saturday, Oct. 5-6, in the Senate Chambers of the Old Capitol. Kerber is professor emerita in the Department of History in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Twelve nationally recognized health and environmental experts recently gathered in Coralville for the inaugural meeting of the State Hygienic Laboratory’s Board of External Advisors. The board will advise, assess, and contribute expertise to the strategic direction of Iowa’s environmental and public health laboratory.

A gift from Dean and Tammy Oskvig will establish the Oskvig Global Engineering Scholarship.

A University of Iowa-led research team has created the most detailed, three-dimensional rendering of a key region of a mammal lung. The model is important, because it can help scientists understand where and how lung diseases emerge as well as advance how drugs are delivered through the respiratory system. Results appear in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."

The University of Iowa College of Education will host a discussion on the importance of skillful instruction and teacher preparation in a talk Monday, Oct. 15. Deborah Loewenberg Ball, dean of the University of Michigan’s School of Education, will discuss “(How) Can all Children get Great Teaching?” at 10 a.m. in Jones Commons, Room N300 in the Lindquist Center.

University of Iowa Women’s Health has launched an e-newsletter, called Uniquely You, to provide Iowa women of all ages with updates on consumer health topics.

The free events presented by the University of Iowa International Writing Program Friday-Sunday, Oct. 12-14, will open with a panel discussion, “Works in Progress,” at noon, Friday, Oct. 12, in the Iowa City Public Library.

The Kuhl House Poets series of the University of Iowa Press released two new collections on Oct. 1.

The University Theatres Mainstage season will open Oct. 11 with "Lady M," adapted and directed by Master of Fine Arts graduate student Matt Hawkins.

Researchers at the University of Iowa and UT Southwestern have identified a new class of small molecules that block nerve cell death in animal models of Parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. These small molecules could be a starting point for developing drugs that might help treat patients with these diseases.

The Board of Regents, State of Iowa, recently approved plans to establish the Iowa Institute of Human Genetics as a statewide resource to promote personalized genomic clinical medicine, research, and education focused on medical and scientific advances around the human genome.

Randall Kennedy, one of the leading scholars and race and the law, will speak at UI on Oct. 4, a week before the Supreme Court hears arguments in a pivotal case regarding affirmative action and college admissions.