Leaders of Genesis Health System in the Quad Cities and University of Iowa Children’s Hospital in Iowa City announced Monday, April 2, that they are now caring for area children in a joint pediatric specialty clinic located in Bettendorf.

Social workers are invited to share hopes, dreams, fears, concerns, and experiences in first annual National Poetry Contest.

Alec Scranton, newly appointed engineering dean, is a fifth-generation Iowan and a University of Iowa alumnus.

Five faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences have been honored for their excellence in teaching and scholarship or creative work.

Farm Manuals Fast, based in the UI entrepreneurship incubator, has sold and downloaded more than 5,000 agricultural implement manuals to farmers in 22 countries in its first two years.

The UIMA@IMU will be closed Easter Sunday, April 8. A visual classroom of the University of Iowa Museum of Art, the UIMA@IMU is located in the third floor Richey Ballroom of the UI’s Iowa Memorial Ballroom.

The life and legacy of Bill Sacker will be celebrated on what would have been his 99th birthday Friday, April 13.

UI organizations sponsor education events as part of national push to combat prescription-drug abuse.

Sister Spit, described as “a legendary, raucous, and rowdy performance gang,” will visit Iowa City Monday, April 16, with a free performance from 7 to 9 p.m. at Public Space One, sponsored by University of Iowa’s student and community-based group TransCollaborations.

Michael Kutcher, brother of actor Ashton Kutcher and heart transplant recipient at UI Hospitals and Clinics, will meet with children who also have received a heart transplant and with other pediatric patients who are waiting for a donor heart to become available, during an April 9 tour of Iowa's only comprehensive academic medical center.

Death notices for current and retired UI employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available.

Jennifer duBois, an alumna of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, will read from her debut novel, A Partial History of Lost Causes, at 7 p.m. Monday, April 9, at Prairie Lights bookstore and on the Internet at www.writinguniversity.org.