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.

Trespasses recounts the coming of age of three generations in the rural Great Plains. In examining how class, race, and gender play out in the lives of two farm families who simultaneously love and hate the place they can’t escape, Johnson presents rural whiteness as an ethnicity worthy of study.

University of Iowa Recreational Services is offering a spring break tennis camp for children ages 6–16 from March 12–16.

A new website offers a one-stop online shop for news, multimedia, and features about University of Iowa people and programs, sharing stories designed to inform, intrigue, and inspire.

The University of Iowa has received a grant of nearly $100,000 to offer a professional training program for teachers of Russian as a foreign language in the United States. The program is supported by STARTALK, a National Security Language Initiative launched by the White House in 2006 to promote the teaching and learning of strategically important world languages that are not widely taught in the...

UI Recreational Services is offering spring yoga and Zumba classes for third through eighth graders.

Fifteen University of Iowa faculty members received support to fund research projects that represent educational research at its best: “critical, purposeful, and solutions-oriented,” according to UI College of Education Dean and Professor Margaret S. Crocco.

Cassandra Storlie, a third-year counselor education and supervision doctoral student in the University of Iowa College of Education, was selected as a recipient of the Chi Sigma Iota Leadership Internship for 2012-13.