Conner Spinks, a University of Iowa junior from Des Moines, is one of only 54 Truman Scholars.

Beginning Saturday, May 5, and continuing through Thursday, May 10, Hawkins Drive will be closed just north of Evashevski Drive to the entrance to the Center for Disabilities and Development during the evening/overnight hours (7 p.m. to 5 a.m.).

On the day Stephanie Kliethermes turned 27, she spent just shy of four hours running 26.2 miles in Boston. The UI Ph.D. candidate runs for her own health, and to serve as a role model for the Girls on the Run participants she coaches.

'Screen Capture,' a multimedia art exhibition that uses the screen as a medium for the creation and presentation of contemporary art, runs May 3-9 in the Media Theater of Art Building West.

University of Iowa students Suzanne Carter and Colorado Reed are inspired by different areas of math and physics. Both will further their studies at Cambridge University as Churchill Scholars.

Nearly 4,800 University of Iowa students will receive their degrees during ceremonies that run May 10 through June 8.

The University of Iowa is encouraging the state’s young people to develop new businesses by co-sponsoring a competition that will award cash prizes to the best ideas from Iowa high school student entrepreneurs.

Red Watch Band training gives students knowledge, awareness, and skills to prevent toxic drinking deaths. Health Iowa brought the program to the University of Iowa three years ago; since then, more than 1,300 UI students have gone through the training.

University of Iowa student Jeffrey Herron isn't only a high jump and long jump sensation. He's also a huge supporter of Hawkeye athletics. And now the Hawkeye high jump record-holder is also eying All-America honors.

The University of Minnesota New Music Ensemble will present a free concert at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 6, in the Riverside Recital Hall.

Donald J. Rich, a World War II Veteran from Wayland, Iowa, will read from his memoir Glider Infantryman at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 5 in a free Prairie Lights reading streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website www.writinguniversity.org.

Cellist Yoo-Jung Chang and violist Manuel Tábora will present a free concert through the University of Iowa Center for New Music at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 5, in the University Capitol Centre Recital Hall.