The University of Iowa Center for New Music Ensemble will launch a spring tour with a free concert at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 19, in the Riverside Recital Hall.

University of Iowa Writers' Workshop graduates Vinnie Wilhelm and Nick Dybek will read from their work at 7 p.m., Wednesday, April 18, in Prairie Lights Books. The reading will be streamed at www.writinguniversity.org.

United States Poet Laureate Philip Levine will give the keynote address at the sixth annual writing conference presented by the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine.

Robin Hemley, director of the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, will introduce his new book, "A Field Guide for Immersion Writing: Memoir, Journalism, and Travel," in a free event at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 19, in Prairie Lights Books and on a live stream at www.writinguniversity.org.

A UI student designed this year's Earth Day fundraiser T-shirt while deployed in Afghanistan with the Air National Guard.

Two graduate students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences received the Marcus Bach Fellowships.

University of Iowa law professor Mark Osiel says the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, has been only partially successful in giving justice for the war's victims.

Faculty members Judith Pascoe and Steven Ungar are among this year's list of Guggenheim Fellows.

More than 60 faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will be honored at a public celebration and reception April 16.

The Bijou Cinema, the University of Iowa's student-run independent movie house in the Iowa Memorial Union, will begin screenings of This Is Not a Film at 9:30 p.m., Friday, April 20.

The University of Iowa will unveil a bronze statue of former University of Iowa wrestling coach Dan Gable outside the main entrance to Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Wednesday, April 18 at 4:30 p.m.

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