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.

Carol Anshaw will read from her new novel, "Carry the One", at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 10, in Prairie Lights Books and on a live stream at the University of Iowa Writing University website, www.writinguniversity.org.

Gary Shteyngart, a guest of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, will present a free reading at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 12, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Dey House.

University of Iowa researchers have been awarded a $1.3 million grant as part of the Iowa Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, part of a larger five-year, $20 million grant awarded to build Iowa’s research capacity in renewable energy and energy efficiency at Iowa’s three public universities.

A new study by a University of Iowa researcher suggests that investors put more faith in venture capitalists and other private financial firms than they do in corporations when it comes to evaluating mergers and acquisitions.

Earn your American Red Cross Universal Certificate before summer arrives with a course through UI Recreational Services.

The Adult Swim Carnival Tour is bringing live music, wacky games, and an assortment of prizes from the cable network to Hubbard Park on Monday, April 9.

The University of Iowa is celebrating Earth Month throughout April with numerous activities including a waste sort, tree plantings, sustainability-related presentations and movies, and a ride-your-bike-to-work/class campus day.

The Iowa Brass Quintet of the University of Iowa School of Music will return from a Midwest tour to present a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 11, in the University Capitol Centre Recital Hall.

The University of Iowa website www.writinguniversity.org will carry a live stream of a reading by fiction writer Patricia Henley at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 11.

Iowa artist Judy Bales will lead a workshop on making art from everyday materials on Saturday, April 14, at 1 p.m. in the Old Capitol Museum at the University of Iowa. The workshop, for individuals 18 and older, requires prior registration by calling the Old Capitol Museum, 319-335-0548.

UI Health Care is hosting 11 simulcast sessions of TEDMED, an event gathering 1,300 adventurous thinkers and doers from 300 medical and nonmedical disciplines April 10-13 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.