UI School of Music faculty member Kristin Thelander will play a free recital of music for horn by American composers at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14, in the Riverside Recital Hall. She'll perform with pianist Sue Haug and with the Bon Vivant Horn Quartet.

Charles Green, University of Iowa assistant vice president and director of public safety, reminds everyone to be aware of the Kinnick Emergency Evacuation Plan as the first home football game approaches this weekend.

University of Iowa Recreational Services is sponsoring the annual Steve Goff Memorial Cross-Country 5K Run/Walk Sunday, Sept. 30, to benefit a scholarship fund established in the late professor's name.

Jody Stone was one of only 97 teachers nationwide selected for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching this year.

The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History begins the annual UI Explorers Seminar series Thursday, Sept. 13, at 7 p.m. in the Biosphere Discovery Hub in Macbride Hall. The first lecture examines vast diversity among earthworms.

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

Total enrollment at the University of Iowa has reached a record high this fall, with 31,498 students attending the university, including 21,999 undergraduates, 4,470 of which are first-year students.

Inara Verzemnieks, a graduate student in the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program (NWP), is one of six 2012 winners of the prestigious Rona Jaffe Writers’ Awards. She follows in the footsteps of former recipients such as Eula Biss, Amy Leach, Lan Samantha Chang, and ZZ Packer.

Variables including population growth, land use, and climate change will challenge the federal agency.

The University of Iowa Old Capitol Museum joins the Cedar County Historical Society for a Sept. 15 event marking the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War.

Elaine Showalter will receive the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin at a Sept. 14 event in the Senate Chamber of the University of Iowa's Old Capitol.

Children will get to don a miner's hat with headlamp to explore the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History when "Night at the Museum" returns Sept. 14. The evening includes tours of darkened galleries and an opportunity to interact with live insects and other arthropods.