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

There are no upcoming GPSG events at this time. 

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Events Around Campus

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Jane Lynch's A Swingin' Little Christmas

Saturday, December 13, 2025 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
Few performers inspire more glee than Jane Lynch. She’s coming to deliver the perfect holiday gift.
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Dance Grad/Undergrad Concert

Saturday, December 13, 2025 8:00pm
Space Place Theater

This performance will feature 10 works choreographed by graduate and undergraduate students from the University of Iowa Department of Dance.

Please be advised this concert includes strobe, haze, adult language, and dancers entering the aisles. In Act II, Reckoning contains subject matter surrounding sexual assault that may cause distress or trigger challenging emotions from some audience members. Please be advised that the dancers will be in the aisles, and the piece includes harsh language...

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Adult Winter Learn to Row

Sunday, December 14, 2025 8:00am to 10:00am
Beckwith Boathouse
Winter Learn to Row
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Men's basketball vs. Western Michigan

Sunday, December 14, 2025 2:00pm
Carver-Hawkeye Arena
The Iowa men's basketball team hosts Western Michigan.

Holiday Brass

Sunday, December 14, 2025 3:00pm
Voxman Music Building

Holiday Brass Concert

View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/952060

This concert is free and open to the public.

Leveraging Microsoft Copilot: How AI Can Assist You

Monday, December 15, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual
An introductory training on Copilot

AI Prompting (Beginner): Crafting the Basics

Tuesday, December 16, 2025 9:00am to 10:00am
Virtual
Through hands-on practice and interactive exercises, attendees will apply promoting strategies in real-time with guidance and feedback.
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Maximizing Pivot to Find Funding and Collaborators (December 2025)

Tuesday, December 16, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

Do you want to maximize your time spent searching for funding opportunities or potential project collaborators? Join us to learn how Pivot can save you time and effort in identifying the right funding opportunities for your research lines as well as identifying collaborators with the relevant expertise.

Register here. The RDO will send a calendar invitation and Zoom link upon registration.

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Study at the Stanley

Tuesday, December 16, 2025 10:00am to 4:00pm
Stanley Museum of Art

Make the Stanley your study spot for finals week. We'll have free cocoa, coffee, cider, and snacks available all day Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (10 a.m.–4 p.m.).

Stop by for a few hours to study for your exams: grab a snack, replenish your study supplies (we'll have post its, highlighters, and more) and take a quick break — either by exploring the galleries or playing with a fidget toy.

REDCap Advanced Training

Tuesday, December 16, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This is the fourth step in the REDCap training series. In this training we will cover advanced features such as:

Importing data from a CSV file Ways to customize your data entry experience with form display logic Making your forms more dynamic and personalized with context aware smart variables Sending automated, conditional email alerts Ensuring data is high quality by executing data quality rules, creating data 'missingness' codes, and opening data queries

Register by clicking the...

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Neuroscience and Pharmacology Seminar - Vadim Bolshakov, PhD

Tuesday, December 16, 2025 10:30am to 11:30am
Bowen Science Building

Neuropeptide-mediated gating of innate fear circuits

Vadim Bolshakov, PhD
Professor, Harvard Medical School
Director, Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory, McLean Hospital

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Microsoft Teams: Get Started with Teams Phone

Tuesday, December 16, 2025 11:00am to 11:30am
Virtual

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

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Tippie Lunch & Learn Webinar | Tax Trends & Strategies for 2026: What Businesses Need to Know

Tuesday, December 16, 2025 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual

From sweeping legislative changes to crypto enforcement and global tax complexity, the world of taxation is evolving fast. As the year comes to a close, understanding how these shifts impact business decisions is more critical than ever.

In this insightful session, Tippie tax professors Jaron Wilde and Ryan Wilson break down what’s on the horizon — including key provisions of the Big Beautiful Bill (OB3), how the IRS is approaching digital assets like crypto, and what global trends mean for...

Seminar Series: Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Tuesday, December 16, 2025 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Bowen Science Building

Each semester, we are proud to host outstanding seminar speakers. Everyone is encouraged to attend.

REDCap MyCap Training

Wednesday, December 17, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This is the fifth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will discuss using the MyCap mobile app for data collection. We will cover features such as:

Creating participants Creating tasks and schedules Active tasks and their unique data output Direct messages and announcements

This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training, you will have a basic understanding of the MyCap mobile app for REDCap.

Register by clicking the virtual event link above or by going...

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Study at the Stanley

Wednesday, December 17, 2025 10:00am to 3:59pm
Stanley Museum of Art

Make the Stanley your study spot for finals week. We'll have free cocoa, coffee, cider, and snacks available all day Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (10 a.m.–4 p.m.).

Stop by for a few hours to study for your exams: grab a snack, replenish your study supplies (we'll have post its, highlighters, and more) and take a quick break — either by exploring the galleries or playing with a fidget toy.

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Craft Pop-up: Make a Winter Card

Wednesday, December 17, 2025 11:00am to 2:00pm
University of Iowa Main Library
Take a break and de-stress from final exams by dropping in to the Main Library’s winter card-making station.

IRB Efficiency Initiative Information Session

Wednesday, December 17, 2025 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual
The Human Subjects Office invites the UI research community to attend monthly information sessions about the IRB Efficiency Initiative on the fourth Wednesday of the month, from 12-1 pm.

AI Prompting (Advanced): Elevating your Craft

Wednesday, December 17, 2025 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Virtual
Designed for users who already understand the basics, this session dives deeper into prompt engineering techniques to generate more precise, creative, and impactful generative artificial intelligence responses.

Fall 2025 IRB Office Hours

Wednesday, December 17, 2025 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Virtual
IRB Office Hours are for all UI faculty, staff, and Investigators, HawkIRB delegates, and research team members involved with Human Subjects research. No appointment
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Microsoft Loop: Get Started with Loop

Wednesday, December 17, 2025 2:00pm to 2:45pm
Virtual

Microsoft Loop is a transformative co-creation experience that brings together teams, content, and tasks across your tools and devices. This training will introduce you to Loop workspaces, which can be used as a note-taking tool or to manage projects. Additionally, we will discuss how you can integrate a Loop workspace into a team in Microsoft Teams. While this is a Microsoft Loop training, it is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before attending this session.

Fall 2025 IRB Office Hours

Thursday, December 18, 2025 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. No appointment necessary. First come, first served.
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Boost Skills with LinkedIn Learning

Thursday, December 18, 2025 10:00am to 10:30am
Virtual

LinkedIn Learning is an online training library that provides access to thousands of courses. This session will discuss how to create a learning plan, how to use AI coaching and feedback, as well as certifications that can be obtained for free on the platform.

REDCap Data Handling

Thursday, December 18, 2025 10:00am to 11:59pm
Virtual

This is the sixth and final step in the REDCap training series. In this training we won't use REDCap at all. Instead, we will cover ways to view and manage your exported REDCap data in Microsoft Excel and Sublime Text such as:

Populating data from one Excel sheet to another with vlookup()

Seeing specific data with column sorting and filtering

Ensuring data is cohesive by creating tables

Looking at how data relates to other data by creating pivot tables

Transforming unusable data to a usable format...

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