By noon Monday, the line for free tickets to President Barack Obama's April 25 speech wound through the Iowa Memorial Union and down the street.

On Wednesday, April 25, President Barack Obama will visit the University of Iowa to speak about college affordability. On Monday, April 23, students began lining up at 6 a.m. to claim tickets to the event.

Carver-Hawkeye Arena was electrified by the nation's best wrestlers (including several with UI ties) and 54,000 cheering spectators during the 2012 U.S. Olympic Wrestling Trials, held April 21-22 in Carver-Hawkeye Arena.

The Olympic Wrestling Trials, held this weekend in Carver Hawkeye Arena, were full of action and reaction, heartbreak and excitement. Iowa Now was there to capture some of the scenes.

Iowa City police—with assistance from University of Iowa police—captured a man suspected of robbing the Gilbert Street Hills Bank Monday morning, an incident for which the UI and Iowa City Community School District issued alerts as a precaution.

Hancher and Working Group Theatre have added a fifth show of Mayberry. Tickets are now available for a performance on Saturday, April 28 at 2 p.m. at Riverside Theatre in Iowa City.

Ed Callaway of the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, La Jolla, Calif., will be the featured speaker at the Sixth Raymond Fong Memorial Lecture at 4 p.m. Friday, April 27, in Kollros Auditorium, Biology Building East on the University of Iowa campus.

The inflatable "Bubble" training facility attached to the Hayden Fry Football Complex had its last gasp on Friday, April 20, deflated after 27 years of use by several UI athletics teams, primarily the football squad. A new building will reside on the Kenyon Football Practice Facility.

Dane Pratt started out washing dishes and taking out the trash in a research lab in the UI Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science. Now, he's designing and conducting cutting-edge pain research.

The University of Iowa’s Hancher will present the Enso String Quartet on Friday, May 4 at 7:30 p.m. at Zion Lutheran Church in Iowa City. The concert is the culmination of Hancher’s “Caps Off to Nurses” program, which shares classical music in healthcare settings as a way to thank nurses.

Graduate students in the UI School of Urban and Regional Planning are helping the community think smarter about energy.

A semester-long storytelling project will take place the day after the play 'Mayberry' concludes its successful run in Iowa City.