The University of Iowa Research Foundation is making funding available for faculty interested in commercializing their research. Awards up to $70,000 are available.

The University of Iowa School of Art and Art History will present "Tall Tales from a Large Man," a lecture by graphic design artist Aaron Draplin, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3, in Room 116 of Art Building West.

A University of Iowa professor is encouraging Iowans to bring their memories and fondness for the state to a creative process that will inspire floats and more for an Iowa City Carnaval Parade. Four sessions of Carnaval Art will be held at the UI’s Old Capitol Museum beginning Oct. 4.

Judicial review—the courts' power to strike down laws—is increasingly criticized in the United States, but promoted abroad. A UI College of Law conference will look at how one of America’s most prominent legal exports has become so controversial at home.

UI researchers find that total knee replacement surgeries have more than doubled in 20 years. The study, published Sept. 26 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests the growth is driven by both the increase in the number of older Americans and increased demand among older adults for total knee replacements.

When Kali Peschel committed to the University of Iowa women's basketball program as a junior in high school, she felt she was committing to a second family. Nearly two years and one emotional injury later, Peschel knows she found her home in Iowa City.

Live broadcasts from UI Hospitals and Clinics generate funds to support the UI Children's Hospital.

Enjoy a night of spooky fun that's free and open to the public when the University of Iowa Pentacrest Museums host the eighth annual Creepy Campus Crawl Friday, Oct. 26.

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.