Six University of Iowa professors have been named Collegiate Fellows of the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in recognition of their distinguished teaching, research, and service.

Jeffrey Copeland will read from Shell Games: The Life and Times of Pearl McGill, Industrial Spy and Pioneer Labor Activist, at 7 p.m. Monday, April 16, in Prairie Lights Books.

stef shuster will give the keynote address at the University of Iowa College of Education’s “Beyond Tolerance Diversity Conference” at about 12:20 p.m. Thursday, April 19, in the Jones Commons, Room N300, in the UI Lindquist Center. shuster will begin speaking at approximately 12:20 p.m.

Mount Mercy University in Cedar Rapids will host the second annual Cedar Rapids Dance Marathon from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, April 14, in the Hennessey Recreation Center at Mount Mercy University.

A $100,000 gift to the University of Iowa Foundation will create two scholarships for undergraduate students in the UI College of Engineering.

With Rick Santorum suspending his campaign Tuesday, Mitt Romney is now the all but official Republican nominee, an outcome the Iowa Electronic Markets saw as the most probable since Sept. 11, 2011.

Mariannette Miller-Meeks, director of the Iowa Department of Public Health, will speak as this week’s Policy Matters’ guest lecturer on the topic of health care policy at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 11 in the University of Iowa Main Library's Shambaugh Auditorium.

The Iowa Cochlear Implant Clinical Research Center at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine has received its fifth consecutive grant renewal from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.

Students in a Tippie College of Business course are helping the Yellowstone Association get an edge over dozens of other tour operators at a time when the number of visitors to the national park is largely static.

Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman, visiting artists in the photography area of the School of Art and Art History, will speak on Geolocation: Tributes to the Data Stream at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 19, in E105 of the Adler Journalism Building on the University of Iowa campus.

Trenton Place, a graduate student in the University of Iowa Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program, has been awarded a $2,500 grant from the American Medical Association Foundation’s Seed Grant Research Program to examine how oxygen levels within pancreatic cancer tumors affect the cancer's ability to spread to distant organs.

The Grant Wood Symposium is just one aspect of a grander vision—an artist colony that will be a lasting legacy of the creativity of Iowa's most famous artist and his commitment to supporting other artists.