The famous Floyd of Rosedale is something of an old friend to UI law professor and president emeritus Sandy Boyd.

Savor the ambiance of the Napoleonic empire! Fine French food—is there any other kind?!—and live music will rule the night when the University of Iowa Museum of Art stages its fall Museum pARTy Saturday, Oct. 13, at hotelVetro in downtown Iowa City.

Kerri Webster and Joseph Campana, winners of the 2001 Iowa Poetry Prize from the University of Iowa Press, will read at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, in Prairie Lights Books and on a Virtual Writing University live stream.

Geoff Dyer, a visiting faculty member in the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, will present a free reading at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3, in the Englert Theater in downtown Iowa City. A reception will follow.

The University of Iowa Department of Mathematics will present the third annual Rockwell Lecture, delivered by Suncica Canic, Cullen Distinguished Professor in the University of Houston Department of Mathematics, at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 3, in Lecture Room 1 of Van Allen Hall on the UI campus.

Thanks to expertise in the University of Iowa College of Education's new doctoral program in Couple and Family Therapy, the UI is one of five institutions partnering to create the Tanager Place Research Center that will help children and families with mental health care support.

The Gallery series of the University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts will present The Rink of Red, a student production written by Eva Adderley and directed by Mark Smolyar, at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 5 and 6, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7, in the UI Theatre Building.

Cities don’t just appear out of nowhere, and a study by a University of Iowa researcher thinks slime mold might be a good model to learn more about how they grow. And it has nothing to do with the stuff you saw growing in the subway that time you were in New York.

Taking the time while in good health to discuss and document future healthcare goals removes the guesswork for families, offering a powerful tool and a source of support during uncertain times.

L. Hunter Lovins, author and sustainable business leader, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, in Room W10 (the Buchanan Auditorium) of the Pappajohn Business Building at the University of Iowa.

Most are familiar with the fairy tale version of the stork who delivers neatly bundled babies to doorsteps. Researchers at the University of Iowa gave the storybook stork a new twist, placing it at the center of a comprehensive social marketing campaign designed to prevent unintended pregnancies.

Students, faculty, and alumni of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop will perform “unstageable plays of daring and poetry” at the inaugural Iowa City Poets Theater at 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29, in Lower City Park's Riverside Theater.