The University of Iowa School of Music will present its third free Improvisation for Classical Musicians event of the semester at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 8, in the Riverside Recital Hall.

President Obama will speak at the University of Iowa Field House Wednesday. The event will begin around 1 p.m., and doors open at 10 a.m. Tickets to the free event are required and will be available at the University Box Office in the Iowa Memorial Union starting at noon Monday, April 23.

Writer Nathan Englander, an alumnus of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, will return as a guest of the workshop to present a free reading at 8 p.m. Monday, April 30, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Dey House.

University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumni will be featured in free readings at 7 p.m. May 2 and 3, in Prairie Lights books and streamed live at www.writinguniversity.org.

Organist Gregory Hand will be joined by trumpeter Amy Schendel to present a University of Iowa School of Music faculty recital at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 8, in Iowa City’s Zion Lutheran Church.

Michael Appel and Emma Hashman are the new president and vice president of the Executive Council of Graduate and Professional Students (ECGPS). Natalie Virden is the executive officer.

President Barack Obama last visited the University of Iowa campus in March 2010, delivering a speech on health care reform and the health insurance legislation recently signed into law.

President Barack Obama will emphasize the need to keep higher education within reach when he visits the University of Iowa campus April 25. It’s a focus familiar to UI leaders, who've made affordable, accessible education a top priority.

The White House issued a news release today confirming that President Barack Obama will visit the University of Iowa campus Wednesday, April 25.

The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts will present the 2012 Iowa New Play Festival, the most ambitious new-play festival in collegiate theater, with readings, staged productions, and discussion from Monday, April 30, through Saturday, May 5, in the UI Theatre Building.

What you need to know if you're attending today's speech, following it online, or simply navigating campus.

Leaders of Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa today announced the recipients of the 2012 Oberley Seed Grant Program Awards.