University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop alumna Naomi Wallace (along with David Lindsay-Abaire) is a 2012 winner of the Horton Foote Prize.

The Class of 2013's Herky statue is taking a tour of campus. Find out where you can take a peek at the autograph-adorned bird.

Iowa’s three regents universities have announced participation in a unique program to encourage sustainability in all aspects of higher education. Called the Sustainability, Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System, the program is administered by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.

T. Geronimo Johnson, an alumnus of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, will read from "Hold It ‘Til It Hurts," his debut novel, at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24, in Prairie Lights Books.

Death notices for current and retired UI employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available.

The latest economic forecast from the University of Iowa’s MBA student financial analysts sees slow but steady growth over the next two years, with political uncertainty in the U.S. and Europe keeping unemployment above 7 percent.

Short-story writer Deborah Eisenberg, a former visiting faculty member in the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, will return as a guest of the workshop to present a free reading at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Dey House.

Libyan fiction writer Hisham Matar, who is based in London, will be an Ida Beam Visiting Professor in the University of Iowa International Writing Program, a residency that includes free public events.

Family Services, a division of University of Iowa Human Resources, will host a parent/provider meet-and-greet session from 4 to 6 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 25, in the East Room (on the eighth floor, near elevator F) of University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

Faculty, staff, and students of public or private colleges or universities in Iowa, and researchers and educators affiliated with Iowa state agencies may apply for seed grants from the University of Iowa Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination. The application deadline is Nov. 5.

The Cinematheque film series of the University of Iowa International Writing Program (IWP) will screen the 1962 Czechoslovakian feature "The Sun in a Net" at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18, in Room E105 of the Adler Journalism Building.

David Stoltz, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of internal medicine at the UI Carver College of Medicine, has received a five-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the role of mucus production in models of airway disease.