The Graduate and Professional Student Government hosts a wide variety of events throughout the year! 

GPSG Meetings Spring 2026

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Legislative Meeting

Black Box Theater (360 IMU)
meetings

Legislative Meeting

Black Box Theater (360 IMU)
meetings

Legislative Meeting

Black Box Theater (360 IMU)
meetings

Legislative Meeting

Black Box Theater (360 IMU)

GPSG Events

GPSG Ball 2026

The ticket request period has now closed. All attendees who RSVP’d will receive additional details from GPSG soon.

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Events Around Campus

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Special Collections Classic Symposium

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 5:30pm to 7:00pm
University of Iowa Main Library

Department of Classics MA candidates Lily and Noah will showcase their work from this semester investigating the rich collection of Classics-related materials in Special Collections and Archives. Several standout items they researched will be on display, with a presentation on details about their usage, context, and provenance — including cuneiform tablets dating to 2050 BCE, and an exciting recent acquisition in Latin from 1661.

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Selections from the Undergraduate Playwrights Workshop

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Theatre Building
Selections from the Undergraduate Playwrights Workshop
Part of Iowa New Play Festival – Reading Series

Honors Recital: Emily Davisdon, saxophone

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 5:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Honors Recital: Emily Davisdon, saxophone

This concert is free and open to the public.

Recital: Hyewon Lee, piano

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

DMA III: Hyewon Lee, piano

Theresa Rukavina, violin

This concert is free and open to the public.

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University Band

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

University Band

This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.

This concert is free and open to the public.

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Iowa New Play Festival

Thursday, May 7 to Friday, May 8, 2026 (all day)
Theatre Building
We are thrilled to present our annual Iowa New Play Festival in the Theatre Building featuring full productions written by MFA playwrights. Plus, there are readings daily from new, full plays written by MFA and undergraduate playwrights.

REDCap Surveys Training

Thursday, May 7, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This is the third step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will cover survey configuration and distribution such as:

Allowing potential participants to self-initiate participation in your study with public surveys

Manually and automatically sending surveys

Administering electronic consent (e-consent) forms

Controlling survey access with conditional logic and survey login

This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training you will have a basic understanding of surveys in...

Spring 2026 IRB Office Hours

Thursday, May 7, 2026 10:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual
IRB Office Hours are for all UI faculty, staff, and Investigators, HawkIRB delegates, and research team members involved with Human Subjects research.
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Boulware Blood Drive

Thursday, May 7, 2026 11:00am to 3:00pm
Booulware Community MERF Atrium
The DeGowin Blood Center is hosting a blood drive from 11 am to 3 pm at the Boulware Community MERF Atrium!
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Accessibility Focus: Build a More Accessible CV and Syllabus

Thursday, May 7, 2026 11:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual
In this session, we examine common CV and syllabus patterns and apply practical techniques that improve navigation, clarity, and compatibility with assistive technologies.
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Course Accessibility For Everyone (CAFÉ): Full Blend

Thursday, May 7, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual

Course Accessibility for Everyone (CAFÉ) will help you make your ICON course site accessible to all your students. We'll focus on how to improve usage of headings, tables, color contrast, alternative text, and more. By making these simple changes to your ICON site, you're making your course accessible for everyone.

This offering combines content from previous CAFÉ sessions into a single extended session.

Register for event.

The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools...

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Microsoft Teams: Get Started with Teams Phone

Thursday, May 7, 2026 1:00pm to 1:30pm
Virtual

The University of Iowa is currently in the process of migrating from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams for telephony services. This course is designed for a user of Teams phone, and will show you how to place calls, transfer calls, set up voicemail, assign delegates, and more.

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BEARS BEARS BEARS BEARS BEARS

Thursday, May 7, 2026 1:30pm to 3:30pm
Theatre Building
By Gwen Docter
Directed by M D Frank
Part of Iowa New Play Festival – Reading Series
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Mechanical Engineering Senior Design Night

Thursday, May 7, 2026 3:00pm to 5:30pm
Seamans Center

Join us for the Department of Mechanical Engineering's Spring Senior Design Night! See what our seniors have worked on for their research capstone projects. Everyone is welcome to mingle, network, and provide feedback on poster presentations.

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AI Prompting (Beginner): Crafting the Basics

Thursday, May 7, 2026 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Virtual
Through hands-on practice and interactive exercises, attendees will apply promoting strategies in real-time with guidance and feedback.

SEES:7000 Colloquium - Jun Wang (UI College of Engineering) - "Atmospheric Science Program in Chemical Engineering: Collaboration with SEES”

Thursday, May 7, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Visual Arts Building
SEES:7000 Colloquium - Jun Wang (UI College of Engineering) - "Atmospheric Science Program in Chemical Engineering: Collaboration with SEES”
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ISE 5000 GRADUATE SEMINAR -- Dr. Qiang Huang

Thursday, May 7, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Seamans Center

Join us in welcoming Qiang Huang, a Professor at the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California, to the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Graduate Seminar.

Dr. Huang will present his seminar titled "Freeform Shape Quality Control for 3D Printing: A Domain-Informed Small-Sample Learning Approach". This talk introduces a domain-informed, small-sample learning methodology for freeform shape quality control in smart 3D...

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Arabic Cultural Hour

Thursday, May 7, 2026 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Phillips Hall
Join the UI Arabic Program for Arabic Cultural Hour! We have set up a number of exciting activities to explore the cultural practices behind Arabic and their relationship with the language. These activities include traditional crafts, cooking, movies, and more. Alongside each activity we will practice our in-class vocabulary and learn new terms to describe the activity.
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Success, Not Excess

Thursday, May 7, 2026 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Bowman House

Success, Not Excess provides a small, safe and supportive space for UI students wanting to make or considering changes in their alcohol or other drug use. The group emphasizes success in academics, relationships, mental and physical health, and other goals through reducing alcohol and other drug use. Meetings are provided by the UI Collegiate Recovery Program. For more information, please visit our website.

This is not a treatment group and will not satisfy legal or other disciplinary mandates...

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Drag'daLore: The Musical Ballroom Epic

Thursday, May 7, 2026 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Theatre Building
By Adrian Enzastiga
Music by Mark Bruckner and Adrian Enzastiga
Directed and Choreographed by Michael C. Flores
Part of Iowa New Play Festival – Production Series
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Chamber Music Residency Program Recital I

Thursday, May 7, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Chamber Music Residency Program Recital I

This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.

This concert is free and open to the public.

Clarinet Studio Recital 581

Thursday, May 7, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Clarinet Studio Recital 581

This concert is free and open to the public.

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Stefon Harris, Ida Beam Residency Keynote Address: Jazz and the Art of Listening

Thursday, May 7, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

At the center of great music — and great collaboration — is the ability to listen deeply.

In this keynote lecture, Stefon Harris explores how listening shapes creativity, musical fluency, and human connection. Drawing on stories from his career performing with jazz legends and teaching musicians around the world, Harris reveals how cultivating curiosity, openness, and empathy allows artists to unlock new possibilities in both music and life.

Post-presentation reception/meet and greet to follow in...

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Dance Graduate Concert

Thursday, May 7, 2026 8:00pm
Space Place Theater

Free and open to the public.

This performance will feature works choreographed by graduate students from the University of Iowa Department of Dance.

It's all part of #NewWorkCity, the spring initiative by #PerformingArtsAtIowa to highlight new work created by our talented graduate students in the performing arts. Join us as we celebrate one part of the full range of creative work happening at the University of Iowa. Keep an eye out for more posts this spring featuring #NewWorkCity: a nod to the...

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