The IMU footbridge will reopen today after being closed from the 2008 flood.

UI officials will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony with brief remarks at 10 a.m.

UI President Sally Mason told the university community in an e-mail Thursday the reopening of the “important pedestrian artery” will serve to “mark yet another important milestone in the [UI’s] road to campus renewal.”

The bridge connects the area surrounding the IMU with the Arts Campus.

— by Brian Stewart