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

GPSG Meetings Spring 2026

meetings

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

Follow CS on #1DayforIowa - Help Us Meet our $3K Matching Challenge! promotional image

Follow CS on #1DayforIowa - Help Us Meet our $3K Matching Challenge!

Wednesday, March 25, 2026 (all day)
Virtual
On One Day for Iowa, don't forget to follow and support UIowa's Department of Computer Science. Help us meet our $3,000 Matching Challenge!
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Pride Week

Wednesday, March 25 to Friday, March 27, 2026 (all day)
Pride Alliance Center
Pride Week
One Day for Iowa | The University of Iowa's Annual Giving Day promotional image

One Day for Iowa | The University of Iowa's Annual Giving Day

Wednesday, March 25, 2026 (all day)
Virtual

One Day for Iowa returns on Wednesday, March 25, marking 10 years of Hawkeyes coming together to support what matters most at the University of Iowa.

Give now: https://1dayforiowa.org/3N96oqb

Our 24-hour online giving day is a chance for alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends to make an impact — supporting scholarships, research, health care, the arts, student experiences, and more. With special matching and unlocking opportunities throughout the day, every gift has the power to go further...

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Habit Hacks Workshop for Students

Wednesday, March 25, 2026 6:00pm to 7:15pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)
Sign up for a free, 4-week workshop to tackle your goals
Cultivating Rurality: Building Community around Rural Research — 2025–26 Obermann Symposium promotional image

Cultivating Rurality: Building Community around Rural Research — 2025–26 Obermann Symposium

Thursday, March 26 to Friday, March 27, 2026 (all day)
Iowa City Public Library

Directed by Brian R. Farrell, Daria Fisher Page, and Ryan T. Sakoda (UI College of Law), "Cultivating Rurality: Building Community around Rural Research" will bring together scholars, community leaders from across the U.S., and professionals who work with rural populations and in rural spaces. During the symposium, attendees will be invited to collaborate in theorizing rurality, share how it impacts their work, examine how rurality is represented and celebrated, and begin to discuss challenges...

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Pride Week

Thursday, March 26 to Friday, March 27, 2026 (all day)
Pride Alliance Center
Pride Week

Design Your Own Copilot Agent: Custom AI for Everyday Tasks

Thursday, March 26, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual
Hands-on with Microsoft Copilot Agents: create, customize, and collaborate using everyday AI.

Spring 2026 IRB Office Hours

Thursday, March 26, 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.
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Thesis Seminar: Nicholas Hammons promotional image

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Thesis Seminar: Nicholas Hammons

Thursday, March 26, 2026 10:30am to 11:20am
Medical Education Research Facility

Structural Insights into Bacterial Chemosensory and Two-Component Signaling Pathways

Nicholas Hammons
PhD Candidate
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Advisor: Ernesto Fuentes, PhD

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Microsoft Planner: An Introduction

Thursday, March 26, 2026 11:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual

Microsoft Planner is a task management and collaboration tool that helps you organize and track your projects and teams. Participants will learn how to use Planner to create plans, assign tasks, set deadlines, and monitor progress. Additionally, we will discuss how to integrate a planner board within Microsoft Teams. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this training.

Online Degree Programs Information Session

Thursday, March 26, 2026 12:00pm to 12:29pm
Virtual

Join us for a 30-minute online overview of the Bachelor of Applied Studies (BAS) and Bachelor of Liberal Studies (BLS) online degree programs from the Univeristy of Iowa. You can join from a PC, Mac, iOS, or Android device here: BAS and BLS Information Session Zoom Link

You are welcome to drop-in or register!

Neuroscience & Pharmacology Workshop - Sarah Preston (Doorn Lab) and Brenna Powers (Stewart Lab) promotional image

Neuroscience & Pharmacology Workshop - Sarah Preston (Doorn Lab) and Brenna Powers (Stewart Lab)

Thursday, March 26, 2026 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Medical Education Research Facility

Modulation of Organophosphate Metabolism and Toxicity via NRF2 Signaling

Sarah Preston
Drug Discovery and Experimental Therapeutics Graduate Student
Dr. Jonathan Doorn's Lab

Sex- and Region-Dependent Regulation of the Dopamine Transporter by D2 Autoreceptors

Brenna Powers
Pharmacology Graduate Student
Dr. Adele Stewart's Lab

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2026 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Sweet 16 Huddle

Thursday, March 26, 2026 2:30pm to 4:30pm
J-Bar-M Barbecue
Join us at a Hawkeye Huddle during Sweet 16 of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament! Hosted by the I-Club, in partnership with the Office of Alumni Engagement, this Hawkeye Huddle is free and open to all Hawkeye fans. We’ll host another Hawkeye Huddle if Iowa advances to the second round.
Creating Communities that Care and Promote Health: Learning from Japan and the U.S. promotional image

Creating Communities that Care and Promote Health: Learning from Japan and the U.S.

Thursday, March 26, 2026 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Virtual
Researchers from Japan will visit the University of Iowa (UI) and, alongside U.S. based health care professionals, will share how their work is improving health and well-being through community-based approaches, from suicide prevention in schools to addiction treatment in primary care and brain health for older adults.

Controllable Microstructure Synthesis for Energetic Materials Using Generative Machine Learning

Thursday, March 26, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Seamans Center

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Graduate Seminar

PRESENTATION: The performance and sensitivity of polymer-bonded explosives (PBXs) are strongly influenced by their complex heterogeneous microstructures. Microstructural characteristics such as binder fraction, porosity, and particle morphology govern mesoscale processes including hotspot formation and shock propagation. However, systematic computational investigation of these effects is constrained by the limited availability of experimentally...

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ISE 5000 GRADUATE SEMINAR --DR. BO SHEN

Thursday, March 26, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Seamans Center

Join us in welcoming Bo Shen, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering and the Department of Data Science at NJIT, to the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Graduate Seminar.

Dr. Shen will present his seminar titled "Deep Learning for Process–Structure–Property Relationship in Advanced Manufacturing". He will discuss AI/ML methods that study manufacturing processes and material properties through physically meaningful intermediate...

Distinguished Biomedical Scholars Lecture - Ian S. Maze, PhD promotional image

Distinguished Biomedical Scholars Lecture - Ian S. Maze, PhD

Thursday, March 26, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Medical Education Research Facility
Distinguished Biomedical Scholars Lecture Ian Maze
Biology Seminar: "The Germ Cell Paradox: How an Immortal Cell Maintains Informational Integrity" promotional image

Biology Seminar: "The Germ Cell Paradox: How an Immortal Cell Maintains Informational Integrity"

Thursday, March 26, 2026 4:00pm
Biology Building East
Talia Hatkevich, Ph.D., a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Cell Biology at Duke University School of Medicine, will be giving a seminar on Thursday, March 26, at 4:00pm in Kollros Auditorium (Room 101), Biology Building East (BBE).
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Jewelry Bar

Thursday, March 26, 2026 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)

Join us and make some new jewelry at CAB's Jewelry Bar happening March 26 from 4 to 7 p.m. in the Herky Room at the IMU!💍

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Arabic Cultural Hour

Thursday, March 26, 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.

Recital: Hannah Rees, Trombone

Thursday, March 26, 2026 5:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Optional Recital: Hannah Rees, Trombone

Click here for program.

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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WiCS - Jeopardy Night

Thursday, March 26, 2026 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Macbride Hall
Back from break? Come join WiCS for a Jeopardy Night!
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Success, Not Excess

Thursday, March 26, 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...

Guest Artist Recital: Caleb Lambert and Martin Gelwasser, trombone

Thursday, March 26, 2026 5:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Guest Artist Recital: Caleb Lambert and Martin Gelwasser, trombone

This concert is free and open to the public.

Canceled
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