"The Fossil Guy" series continues at the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History on Saturday, Nov. 10, at 2 p.m., with “When the Mammoths Roamed Iowa." Each program consists of a 30-minute talk by Don Johnson, a local amateur paleontologist. The free public events are held in Macbride Auditorium.

Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumna Regan Good will read from "The Atlantic House" at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 13, 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.

Sauvik Goswami, the UI Student Government diversity liaison for the 2012-13 academic year, enjoys sharing his culture through events such as Diwali, the Indian Festival of Lights, which will be celebrated Saturday, Nov. 3, on the UI campus.

The University of Iowa Center for New Music, part of the UI School of Music, will present a free concert featuring guest violinist Wolfgang David and pianist/Center for New Music director David Gompper at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11, in the Senate Chamber of Old Capitol on the UI campus.

Harry Brod, professor of philosophy and humanities at the University of Northern Iowa, will read from "Superman Is Jewish?" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14, 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.

During the month of November, people will see red flags on the University of Iowa campus as part of The Red Flag campaign, spearheaded by the UI Men's Anti-Violence Council and the UI Women's Resource and Action Center, to educate college students about dating violence.

How do you recover from a natural disaster like Hurricane Sandy, which is estimated to have caused billions of dollars in economic losses, as well as emotional damages from the rising death toll? An upcoming UI workshop will examine several recent worldwide disasters in an attempt to answer that question.

Three University of Iowa College of Education alumni are being recognized as innovative, engaging educators by the Iowa Children’s Museum and its inaugural Robert E. Yager Active Learning Award.

Fans of the Kansas State Wildcats probably don’t realize it, but their BCS hopes will be affected at least a little by this weekend’s University of Northern Iowa game against Western Illinois.

A portion of Highway 6, between North Riverside Drive and the Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center, will be reduced to one lane each direction this weekend.

Many educators have long believed that when words differ on only one sound, early readers can learn the rules of phonics by focusing on what is different between the words. Scientists at the University of Iowa are turning that thinking on its head. A recent study shows certain kinds of variation in words may help early readers learn better.

Iowa bested Northwestern in a contest to enroll the most volunteers to participate in research studies. The weeklong competition grew out of the schools’ desire to promote ResearchMatch, a federally funded initiative to create an online registry pairing volunteers with research studies.