Mariannette Miller-Meeks, director of the Iowa Department of Public Health, will speak as this week’s Policy Matters’ guest lecturer on the topic of health care policy at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 11 in the University of Iowa Main Library's Shambaugh Auditorium.

The Iowa Cochlear Implant Clinical Research Center at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine has received its fifth consecutive grant renewal from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.

Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman, visiting artists in the photography area of the School of Art and Art History, will speak on Geolocation: Tributes to the Data Stream at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 19, in E105 of the Adler Journalism Building on the University of Iowa campus.

Students in a Tippie College of Business course are helping the Yellowstone Association get an edge over dozens of other tour operators at a time when the number of visitors to the national park is largely static.

Trenton Place, a graduate student in the University of Iowa Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program, has been awarded a $2,500 grant from the American Medical Association Foundation’s Seed Grant Research Program to examine how oxygen levels within pancreatic cancer tumors affect the cancer's ability to spread to distant organs.

The Grant Wood Symposium is just one aspect of a grander vision—an artist colony that will be a lasting legacy of the creativity of Iowa's most famous artist and his commitment to supporting other artists.

The new issue of Earthwords, the University of Iowa undergraduate literary review, will be introduced in a free reading at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 14, in Prairie Lights Books. The reading will also be streamed live at www.writinguniversity.org.

University of Iowa Writers' Workshop alumnus and former faculty member Allan Gurganus, best known for his bestselling novel Oldest Confederate War Widow Tells All, will present a free reading at 8 p.m. Sunday, April 15, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Dey House.

The University of Iowa School of Music will honor emerita faculty member Betty Bang Mather with Baroque for Betty: A Flute Extravaganza at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 14, in the Riverside Recital Hall. The event is free and open the public.

American Indian music, competitive dance, art, and food took center stage Saturday-Sunday, April 7-8, at the 19th annual UI Powwow.

The University of Iowa Department of Dance will present Mind the Gap, a production featuring the thesis works of four graduate students, at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, April 12-14, in the Space Place Theatre of North Hall.

Violinist Diana Seitz, a guest of the University of Iowa School of Music, will present a free recital at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 10, in the Riverside Recital Hall.