The Iowa City Downtown District has invited local artists to brush, glue, and spray a little color on more than 100 benches throughout the downtown pedestrian mall as part of its BenchMarks project. UI photographer Mike Stenerson took his graffiti style to a bench near the Iowa City Public Library.

The visitors—top students from Chinese high schools—will participate in hands-on research. The event is part of Rivers as Bridges, which celebrates the sister-river relationship of the Mississippi River in the United States and the Yangtze River in China.

University of Iowa Health Care leaders announced this morning that University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics is included yet again on a widely recognized list of the leading hospitals in the United States.

Testing has found no chemical threat to the powdery substance inside a suspicious enveloped received on campus July 16.

Marie Gernes and Shaun Wilkinson, both University of Iowa College of Education doctoral students, submitted winning ideas to the college's first handheld app contest. Their ideas may be developed into functioning apps for the college’s faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends to enjoy.

The Get to Know series asks University of Iowa faculty and staff a few questions about their work and their outside interests. Today we visit with Leslie Prideaux, coordinator of Students Today, Alumni Tomorrow (S.T.A.T.).

Cedar Rapids Jefferson High School teachers Melissa Kraft and Mary Swanson are the recipients of the University of Iowa College of Education's 2012 Phyllis A. Yager Diversity Award. The two are recognized for helping young women develop confidence, handle peer pressure, and overcome bullying, prejudice, and gossip.

University of Iowa defensive end Dominic Alvis treats football like it is a full-time job. That workman-like attitude made it much harder to accept watching from the sidelines while rehabbing a knee injury, so he decided to work even harder to ensure he will be back in the Iowa football workforce when the 2012 season begins.

University of Iowa real estate analyst John Gallo says developers will be getting a sweet deal with housing developments left unfinished and unlived-in by the real estate collapse and recession.

Three University of Iowa students and alumni have been awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants to conduct research internationally in 2012-13. This year's UI recipients are Lynne Ann Larsen, Andrea Rosenberg, and Sean Tolentino.

A new documentary premiering at the Iowa City Book Festival reveals how a modest Midwestern college town became a locus of the literary world.

English faculty member Loren Glass talks about the personalities—and, sometimes, the personality conflicts—that built the University of Iowa community's international standing as a "City of Literature."