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

Tickets open on March 1, 2026

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Events Around Campus

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First Round

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Dr. Bob Cargill will explore the question, “Can Archaeology Prove the Bible?”
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Intro to Mindfulness Workshop for Students

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 6:00pm to 7:15pm
Women's Resource and Action Center
Sign up for a free, 4-week workshop to learn mindfulness meditation in community with other students
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Chamber Music Concert of Works by Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor Lowell Liebermann

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Chamber Music Concert of Works by Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor Lowell Liebermann

Click here for program.

This concert is free and open to the public, and is part of Free Week 2026, a festival sponsored by Think Iowa City and the Iowa City Downtown District.

Air for flute and organ Op.106 (2008) c.10’00”

Nicole Esposito, flute

Greg Hand, organ

Sonata for Contrabass and Piano Op.24 (1987) c.25'00"

Volkan Orhon, contrabass

Doreen Lee, piano

-Intermission-

Three Lullabies for Two Pianos...

UI Advise Spring Professional Development Day

Thursday, February 19, 2026 8:00am to 12:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)

Introduction to High Performance Computing using Argon (Zoom)

Thursday, February 19, 2026 10:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual

The workshop is a two-hour session that consists of two parts: an introduction to a High-Performance Computing (HPC) environment and hands-on training on the basic usage of the Argon cluster (access, configuration, job submission, and data transfer). It is geared towards users of HPC, including faculty, postdocs, and students, who are eager to learn about getting started with the Argon cluster and storage services for their computational research. No prior experience or knowledge of...

Spring 2026 IRB Office Hours

Thursday, February 19, 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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Hardin Open Workshops - ORCiD: Open Researcher and Contributor ID (Zoom)

Thursday, February 19, 2026 11:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual

What is ORCID? Why would you want one? This session will discuss ORCID, how researchers can benefit from having one, and how ORCID connects with other information systems. This will also be a hands-on workshop where everyone will have the chance to create their own ORCID and learn the most efficient ways to populate their profile with their publications.

PLEASE NOTE

Enrollment in HOW is open to all University of Iowa affiliates and residents of the state of Iowa. Advance registration is required...

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Reiterative Teaching Practices to Support Learning

Thursday, February 19, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual
Scaffolding new knowledge with previous course concepts is an important part of learning. Discuss strategies to help students recall, retain, and connect ideas across the semester with English PhD Candidate Sarah Frank.
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Neuroscience & Pharmacology Workshop - Yutong Wang and Pravda Quiñones-Labernik

Thursday, February 19, 2026 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Medical Education Research Facility

Effect of acute sleep deprivation on hippocampal activity and gene expression changes

Yutong Wang
Pharmacology Graduate Student
Dr. Ted Abel's Lab

Investigating Molecular Mechanisms of Behavioral Rescue Following Excess Neonatal Testosterone

Pravda Quiñones-Labernik
Pharmacology Graduate Student
Dr. Ted Abel's Lab

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Hardin Open Workshops: EMBASE (Zoom)

Thursday, February 19, 2026 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Virtual

EMBASE is a biomedical and pharmaceutical database containing bibliographic records with abstracts. Although there is overlap with records from PubMed, there are also many unique records. This hands-on session will show you how to conduct basic searches using EMBASE’s quick search box, how to conduct searches using EMTREE subject headings, and how to use subheadings for drug and disease topics.

PLEASE NOTE

Enrollment in HOW is open to all University of Iowa affiliates and residents of the state of...

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Microsoft Teams: Get Started with Teams Phone

Thursday, February 19, 2026 2:00pm to 2:30pm
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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Object Transport by Confined Active Fluids

Thursday, February 19, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Seamans Center

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Graduate Seminar

PRESENTATION: Active fluids, and more generally active matter, are out of equilibrium systems emblematic of biological materials, such as a cell interior or a developing multicellular organism. Chemical energy is locally converted into work that can guide their evolution through internal stresses in ways that lead to instabilities and generally rich phenomenology. Means to organize such systems to perform life-like tasks is particularly interesting...

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ISE 5000 GRADUATE SEMINAR --DR. Shancong Mou

Thursday, February 19, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Seamans Center

Join us in welcoming Shancong Mou, an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, to the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Graduate Seminar.

Dr. Mou will present his seminar titled "AI/ML-enabled Data Fusion for Complex Engineering Systems." He will start with an overview of the research landscape, followed by a discussion on AI/ML-enabled data fusion, demonstrated through several key examples:

· Surface...

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Movie Night: Arabic Cultural Hour

Thursday, February 19, 2026 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Phillips Hall
This week Arabic Cultural Hour will be hosting a movie night featuring The Battle of Algiers! Join us in the CLCL from 5:00pm - 7:00pm to watch this historic movie that features Arabic, English, and French. Feel free to bring snacks or dinner!
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Del Sol Quartet with UI Chinese Program

Thursday, February 19, 2026 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Phillips Hall
Join the UI Chinese Program for an event hosting the Del Sol Quartet!
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Free Week | Cozy Cross-Stitch

Thursday, February 19, 2026 5:00pm to 7:30pm
Stanley Museum of Art

Cozy up for an evening of cross-stitch, snacks, and good times at the Stanley. Free and open to all!

The Stanley has partnered with ICDD for the upcoming Free Week – a winter festival offering free programming at over 15 venues, celebrating Downtown Iowa City’s Cultural & Entertainment District from Feb. 16 to 22, 2026.

Snack and supplies provided.

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Arabic Cultural Hour

Thursday, February 19, 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, February 19, 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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WiCS - Career Speaker: Professor Kleiman

Thursday, February 19, 2026 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Macbride Hall
We'll be joined by Professor Kleiman to talk on behalf of her experience as a computer science educator and researcher!
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Translating Dreams: A Reading and Conversation with Young Korean Wordsmiths

Thursday, February 19, 2026 5:30pm to 6:45pm
Phillips Hall
Join the University of Iowa (UI) Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, an International Programs affinity group, and the UI Korean Program for a special event featuring three Korean authors presenting about their works and their thoughts on Korean literature.
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Death of a Brewer: Trailer Teaser Screening & Discussion

Thursday, February 19, 2026 5:30pm
Old Capitol Museum
Death of a Brewer film trailer screening and discussion at Old Capitol Museum as part of FREE WEEK in Iowa City
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Faith on the Plate

Thursday, February 19, 2026 6:00pm
Phillips Hall
Explore the intersection of religion and cuisine, guided by Christina Ward's book "Holy Food"
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American Voices: In Conversation with Lowell Liebermann and Gabriel Kahane

Thursday, February 19, 2026 6:00pm
Voxman Music Building

Moderated by Director of Orchestral Studies and Music Assistant Professor Kenny Lee

Join us in conversation with two great working American composers, Lowell Liebermann and Gabriel Kahane, as they discuss process and artistry. Kahane is Hancher Auditorium’s 2025-26 Composer-in Residence, and Liebermann is an Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor hosted in the UI School of Music. The two composers are engaged in concurrent weeklong residencies at the University of Iowa, and will each...

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