Demands of the Dead: Executions, Storytelling, and Activism in the United States, edited by Katy Ryan, is now available from the University of Iowa Press.

The Iowa City Book Festival will announce this summer’s author lineup at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 18 in a special media event in the Old Capitol Museum Senate Chamber. Several local authors slated to participate in this summer’s festival will be available to the media during this event, including Larry Baker and Zach Wahls.

Lecture will look at the intertwined economic fortunes of Postville, Iowa, and El Rosario, Guatemala after the May 2008 immigration raid on a Postville meatpacking facility.

Improving opportunities for women to obtain higher-paying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers will be the subject of a free, public talk from 5 to 6 p.m., Thursday, April 19, at T-Spoons, located at the corner of Linn and Market streets.

Students from Mount Mercy University, Coe College and Kirkwood Community College raised $25,691.80 during the second annual Cedar Rapids Dance Marathon on Saturday, April 14.

University of Iowa researcher Randall McEntaffer has received a NASA Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship to develop X-ray reflection gratings for future NASA missions. The instruments will be carried aboard space telescopes.

Greek Week is an annual celebration of and for all 40 of Iowa’s sororities and fraternities. This year, the community is shining a spotlight on its growing number of culturally based groups as it wraps up the week with the NPHC Stroll Competition at 7 p.m., Saturday, April 21.

The first Phil's Day celebration—part of the UI Foundation's student-focused Phil Was Here campaign—showcases the ways in which donor support creates a stronger university.

Specialists in the UI Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery will offer free screenings for oral, head and neck cancer from 8 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, April 25, at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City.

Hancher and Working Group Theatre have added a fifth show of Mayberry. Tickets are now available for a performance on Saturday, April 28 at 2 p.m. at Riverside Theatre in Iowa City.

The Jazz Repertory Ensemble of the University of Iowa School of Music will celebrate the work of three major composer/arrangers in April 19 and May 3 concerts at the Mill restaurant.

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.