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.

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.