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

GPSG Meetings Spring 2024

meetings

Council Meeting

IMU Room 337 (or join via Zoom)
meetings

Council Meeting

IMU Room 337 (or join via Zoom)
meetings

Council Meeting

IMU Room 337 (or join via Zoom)

GPSG Events

Wholistic Wellness Week 2024

Wholistic Wellness Week Safety Training Flyer

WWW: Personal Safety Training Sessions

UCC Campus Safety Training Room
Wholistic Wellness Week Safety Training Flyer

WWW: Personal Safety Training Sessions

UCC Campus Safety Training Room
Wholistic Wellness Week: Mindfulness Meditation

WWW: Mindfulness Meditation

Zoom

Events Around Campus

Soft Hold - Photo Exhibition -School of Art, Art History, and Design promotional image

Soft Hold - Photo Exhibition -School of Art, Art History, and Design

Friday, June 6, 2025 8:00am to 8:00pm
Visual Arts Building
Soft Hold - Photo Exhibition🗓 June 2–25, 2025📍 Eve Drewelowe Gallery, Visual Arts Building, 107 River St, Iowa City🕒 Gallery Hours: Weekdays, 8 a.m.–8 p.m.🎉 Opening Reception: Friday, June 6, 5–7 p.m.🎨 RITUAL Workshop: Friday, May 30, VAB E318 (Details below)🆓 Free & open to the publicSoft Hold brings together photographs from Signal by riel Sturchio and before the last lilac blooms by Bianca and riel Sturchio — two series grounded in care, connection, and the act of witnessing.Signal honors...
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2025 Downtown Summer Gallery Walk

Friday, June 6, 2025 5:00pm to 8:00pm
Stanley Museum of Art
The Iowa City Gallery Walk is back for another year! For over 25 years, this event has taken over downtown and filled your favorite businesses with wonderful works of art. Make an evening of it and grab a bite to eat, shop, and gallery walk in beautiful downtown Iowa City! The 2025 Downtown Summer Gallery Walk is Friday, June 6th from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. This FREE event is open to everyone to enjoy a self-guided tour of shops, galleries, and other locations that have curated featured artists and...
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Exhibition - A Roll of the Dice: Symbolism in the Sackner Archive

Saturday, June 7 to Friday, June 27, 2025 (all day)
University of Iowa Main Library
In 1897, French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé revolutionized the world of graphic design with a single poem that forever changed the way we look at words. His work illustrated how text conveys meaning not only through words, but also as visual symbols that contain a deeper meaning. For over 125 years, artists and writers have continued to explore the mystery of Mallarmé’s poem “Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard” [A throw of the dice will never abolish chance]. This exhibition...
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National Learn to Row Day

Saturday, June 7, 2025 9:00am to 12:00pm
Beckwith Boathouse
National Learn to Row Day is June 7. Join us for a morning learn-to-row that will give you a quick glimpse into the sport of rowing. You will learn the rowing stroke on land and then move to boats on the water.All fitness and athletic backgrounds are welcome. Ages 18+. Items to wear and bring for participation: weather-appropriate apparel, hat, sunglasses, water bottle and sunscreen. Baggy clothing is discouraged as it may get caught in the equipment. Registration is required.Date: Saturday...
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Exhibition - A Roll of the Dice: Symbolism in the Sackner Archive

Sunday, June 8 to Friday, June 27, 2025 (all day)
University of Iowa Main Library
In 1897, French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé revolutionized the world of graphic design with a single poem that forever changed the way we look at words. His work illustrated how text conveys meaning not only through words, but also as visual symbols that contain a deeper meaning. For over 125 years, artists and writers have continued to explore the mystery of Mallarmé’s poem “Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard” [A throw of the dice will never abolish chance]. This exhibition...
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2025 Iowa Arts Festival | Art-Making Sunday

Sunday, June 8, 2025 11:00am to 3:00pm
Pedestrian Mall, Downtown Iowa City
Join Summer of the Arts and the Stanley Museum of Art in not just viewing art but making it!The Stanley booth will be live on Sunday at the Ped Mall - color your very own fabric slap bracelets with paint markers! While you're there, enjoy a variety of music, performances and your favorite swing band and international sounds too.Full schedule for the 2025 Iowa Arts Festival can be found here.

Franz Joseph Haydn: THE CREATION - Chamber Singers of Iowa City

Sunday, June 8, 2025 3:00pm
Voxman Music Building
Franz Joseph Haydn: THE CREATIONChamber Singers of Iowa City
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Topological Data Visualization Workshop

Monday, June 9 to Friday, June 13, 2025 (all day)
Schaeffer Hall
Some datasets are too small for standard statistical/data analysis to accurately characterize the data. Others are extremely large and data size reduction methods may be needed. One solution is to use topological data analysis to simplify and/or visualize data. This workshop will include both tutorials and research talks on topological techniques for visualizing data.Attendees are encouraged to bring a laptop to analyze their own data or data that will be provided. We will explore datasets via a...
Exhibition - A Roll of the Dice: Symbolism in the Sackner Archive promotional image

Exhibition - A Roll of the Dice: Symbolism in the Sackner Archive

Monday, June 9 to Friday, June 27, 2025 (all day)
University of Iowa Main Library
In 1897, French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé revolutionized the world of graphic design with a single poem that forever changed the way we look at words. His work illustrated how text conveys meaning not only through words, but also as visual symbols that contain a deeper meaning. For over 125 years, artists and writers have continued to explore the mystery of Mallarmé’s poem “Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard” [A throw of the dice will never abolish chance]. This exhibition...
Soft Hold - Photo Exhibition -School of Art, Art History, and Design promotional image

Soft Hold - Photo Exhibition -School of Art, Art History, and Design

Monday, June 9, 2025 8:00am to 8:00pm
Visual Arts Building
Soft Hold - Photo Exhibition🗓 June 2–25, 2025📍 Eve Drewelowe Gallery, Visual Arts Building, 107 River St, Iowa City🕒 Gallery Hours: Weekdays, 8 a.m.–8 p.m.🎉 Opening Reception: Friday, June 6, 5–7 p.m.🎨 RITUAL Workshop: Friday, May 30, VAB E318 (Details below)🆓 Free & open to the publicSoft Hold brings together photographs from Signal by riel Sturchio and before the last lilac blooms by Bianca and riel Sturchio — two series grounded in care, connection, and the act of witnessing.Signal honors...

Women In Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour

Monday, June 9, 2025 11:00am to 12:00pm
Carver Biomedical Research Building
Join us for the Women in Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour. It is the monthly coffee hour on the second Monday of the month from 11 a.m. to noon in 1289 CBRB. Enjoy coffee, pastries and contribute to the discussion!This is open to ALL — students, staff, postdocs, and faculty interested in promoting women in science.Speakers change monthly. Contact: jessica-tucker@uiowa.edu for details.
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Topological Data Visualization Workshop

Tuesday, June 10 to Friday, June 13, 2025 (all day)
Schaeffer Hall
Some datasets are too small for standard statistical/data analysis to accurately characterize the data. Others are extremely large and data size reduction methods may be needed. One solution is to use topological data analysis to simplify and/or visualize data. This workshop will include both tutorials and research talks on topological techniques for visualizing data.Attendees are encouraged to bring a laptop to analyze their own data or data that will be provided. We will explore datasets via a...
Exhibition - A Roll of the Dice: Symbolism in the Sackner Archive promotional image

Exhibition - A Roll of the Dice: Symbolism in the Sackner Archive

Tuesday, June 10 to Friday, June 27, 2025 (all day)
University of Iowa Main Library
In 1897, French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé revolutionized the world of graphic design with a single poem that forever changed the way we look at words. His work illustrated how text conveys meaning not only through words, but also as visual symbols that contain a deeper meaning. For over 125 years, artists and writers have continued to explore the mystery of Mallarmé’s poem “Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard” [A throw of the dice will never abolish chance]. This exhibition...
Soft Hold - Photo Exhibition -School of Art, Art History, and Design promotional image

Soft Hold - Photo Exhibition -School of Art, Art History, and Design

Tuesday, June 10, 2025 8:00am to 8:00pm
Visual Arts Building
Soft Hold - Photo Exhibition🗓 June 2–25, 2025📍 Eve Drewelowe Gallery, Visual Arts Building, 107 River St, Iowa City🕒 Gallery Hours: Weekdays, 8 a.m.–8 p.m.🎉 Opening Reception: Friday, June 6, 5–7 p.m.🎨 RITUAL Workshop: Friday, May 30, VAB E318 (Details below)🆓 Free & open to the publicSoft Hold brings together photographs from Signal by riel Sturchio and before the last lilac blooms by Bianca and riel Sturchio — two series grounded in care, connection, and the act of witnessing.Signal honors...
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Course Accessibility For Everyone (CAFÉ): Full Blend

Tuesday, June 10, 2025 8:30am to 10:00am
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 the event.The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise...
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Hardin Open Workshops - EndNote Desktop (Zoom)

Tuesday, June 10, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual
EndNote is a reference management tool that helps you to easily gather together your references in one place, organize them, and then insert them into papers and format them in a style of your choosing. This session will walk you through the basics of using EndNote to collect and format your citations. The class will be hands-on, and there will be time for questions at the end.PLEASE NOTEClass will be taught via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be emailed the Zoom link 30...

REDCap Basic Training

Tuesday, June 10, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual
This is the first step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will build a new REDCap project from scratch and cover basic features such as: • Building forms with proper field types and validation • Assigning user permissions • Project backup and overview with data dictionary, codebook, pdf, and xml • Ensuring your project works properly by testing with real world application • Making mid-study modifications safely after having started data collection in production • Creating...
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Microsoft Teams: Get Started with Teams Phone

Tuesday, June 10, 2025 10:00am to 10:45am
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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Intro to Mindfulness Workshop for Students

Tuesday, June 10, 2025 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Virtual
Intro to Mindfulness® is an evidence-based curriculum specifically designed for teaching mindfulness, meditation, and stress management to college students and other young adults. The workshop will run Tuesdays, June 3, 10, 17, 24 from Noon to 1:15 p.m. on Zoom. To register or learn more information, please go to the link on our website.

TriNetX Basic Training

Tuesday, June 10, 2025 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Virtual
This training will provide an in-depth look at TriNetX and show you how to use the tool. We will go through building a study, searching for a specific population, and finally what information you can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research. After this training you will have a thorough understanding of how to use TriNetX and what the process is to get data extracted for research studies. Register by clicking the virtual event link...
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Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Program Thesis Defense Seminar: Matthew McGregor

Tuesday, June 10, 2025 2:01pm
Biology Building East
Matthew McGregor is a PhD candidate in the Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Graduate Program. His research has been conducted as a part of the Ryan LaLumiere laboratory.If you are unable to attend in person, please consider showing your support via Zoom. https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/96194009298 Meeting ID: 961 9400 9298

Des Moines MSW Info Session

Tuesday, June 10, 2025 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Virtual
Please join us via Zoom for an info session to learn more about the MSW program in Des Moines at the John and Mary Pappajohn Education Center.Click here to register: https://socialwork.uiowa.edu/graduate/msw-social-work/des-moinesQuestions? Contact Melanie at melanie-reed@uiowa.edu 
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Topological Data Visualization Workshop

Wednesday, June 11 to Friday, June 13, 2025 (all day)
Schaeffer Hall
Some datasets are too small for standard statistical/data analysis to accurately characterize the data. Others are extremely large and data size reduction methods may be needed. One solution is to use topological data analysis to simplify and/or visualize data. This workshop will include both tutorials and research talks on topological techniques for visualizing data.Attendees are encouraged to bring a laptop to analyze their own data or data that will be provided. We will explore datasets via a...
Exhibition - A Roll of the Dice: Symbolism in the Sackner Archive promotional image

Exhibition - A Roll of the Dice: Symbolism in the Sackner Archive

Wednesday, June 11 to Friday, June 27, 2025 (all day)
University of Iowa Main Library
In 1897, French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé revolutionized the world of graphic design with a single poem that forever changed the way we look at words. His work illustrated how text conveys meaning not only through words, but also as visual symbols that contain a deeper meaning. For over 125 years, artists and writers have continued to explore the mystery of Mallarmé’s poem “Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard” [A throw of the dice will never abolish chance]. This exhibition...
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