Iowa City police—with assistance from University of Iowa police—captured a man suspected of robbing the Gilbert Street Hills Bank Monday morning, an incident for which the UI and Iowa City Community School District issued alerts as a precaution.

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.

Ed Callaway of the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, La Jolla, Calif., will be the featured speaker at the Sixth Raymond Fong Memorial Lecture at 4 p.m. Friday, April 27, in Kollros Auditorium, Biology Building East on the University of Iowa campus.

The inflatable "Bubble" training facility attached to the Hayden Fry Football Complex had its last gasp on Friday, April 20, deflated after 27 years of use by several UI athletics teams, primarily the football squad. A new building will reside on the Kenyon Football Practice Facility.

Dane Pratt started out washing dishes and taking out the trash in a research lab in the UI Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science. Now, he's designing and conducting cutting-edge pain research.

The University of Iowa’s Hancher will present the Enso String Quartet on Friday, May 4 at 7:30 p.m. at Zion Lutheran Church in Iowa City. The concert is the culmination of Hancher’s “Caps Off to Nurses” program, which shares classical music in healthcare settings as a way to thank nurses.

Graduate students in the UI School of Urban and Regional Planning are helping the community think smarter about energy.

A semester-long storytelling project will take place the day after the play 'Mayberry' concludes its successful run in Iowa City.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present its third free Improvisation for Classical Musicians event of the semester at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 8, in the Riverside Recital Hall.

President Obama will speak at the University of Iowa Field House Wednesday. The event will begin around 1 p.m., and doors open at 10 a.m. Tickets to the free event are required and will be available at the University Box Office in the Iowa Memorial Union starting at noon Monday, April 23.

Writer Nathan Englander, an alumnus of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, will return as a guest of the workshop to present a free reading at 8 p.m. Monday, April 30, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Dey House.

University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumni will be featured in free readings at 7 p.m. May 2 and 3, in Prairie Lights books and streamed live at www.writinguniversity.org.