Two graduate students in the U's School of Architecture take a design assignment -- help revitalize an area of town by designing a new facade for an old building -- and make it real.

Elements in a motion picture like "The Hobbit" include the story, sets, costumes, animation, etc. There is also language--actually several languages--and not all are real. But the actors have to say the lines accurately and convincingly. Thankfully, there is a dialect coach to help...

The University of Utah has been designated a "Bike Friendly University" by the League of American Bicyclists. The U is making it ever easier to bike to campus for school or work.

Three researchers from the University of Utah–math professor Kenneth Golden, math doctoral student Christian Sampson, and electrical engineering grad student David Lubbers–are back from a two-month research mission on an icebreaker in Antarctica. Lubbers was an undergraduate on his first trip in December 2010 and that experience influenced his academic future. Lubbers blogged from the ship. Read posts "Antarctica 2012" for an inside look at the whole journey.

Opera is a complex art form, combining vocal and dramatic performance skills. Students recently took to a parade route, rather than a stage, to delight the community with their talents.

The new president of the U, David Pershing, took to the road this summer, to listen, learn and tell the U story to communities across the state.

Some faculty members in the U's College of Humanities have created a group to overcome the challenges of that usual solitary academic pursuit -- writing.