Almost all UI faculty and staff know what the Herdbook is (the university directory); how it became known as the Herdbook isn't common knowledge. Kelli Andresen attempts to wrangle the answer.

'30 Rock' actor Judah Friedlander puts on his stand-up comedy hat for a performance at the Iowa Memorial Union on March 23.

Could Honest Abe survive in today's political climate?

Twenty-five years ago, the Iowa men's basketball team started the season with 18 straight wins and rose to No. 1 in the national rankings. The group, which included eight future NBA draft picks, has achieved great success in life after basketball.

Community activist, MacArthur Fellow, and author Bill Strickland will visit the University of Iowa and Iowa City community April 2 and 3.

Orrin W. Robinson III, Professor of German Studies at Stanford University, will present “White as Snow, Red as Blood: Girls and Women in the Grimms’ Fairy Tales,” at 6 p.m., Monday, March 19, in the South Room of the Iowa Memorial Union (IMU).

University of Iowa students, staff, and faculty who are concerned about gender equity, sexual harassment, diversity, and opportunities for women are invited to apply for membership in the UI Council on the Status of Women (CSW).

The University of Iowa’s Writing University website—www.writinguniversity.org—will carry live streams of readings by three UI-connected writers: Stephen Beachy on Monday, March 19; Honor Moore on Wednesday, March 21; and Kevin Moffett on Thursday, March 22. The streams will originate in free, public events at 7 p.m. in Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque St. in downtown Iowa City.

Essayists on the Essay: Montaigne to Our Time, edited by Carl H. Klaus and Ned Stuckey-French, is now available from the University of Iowa Press.

The University of Iowa has received a $25,000 grant to help expand its use of biorenewable fuel in the campus power plants.

Childish Gambino is bringing his lyrical hip-hop to the University of Iowa April 16.

SCOPE Productions and Mission Creek Festival team up to present The Antlers in Iowa City March 31.