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

GPSG Meetings Fall 2025

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Legislative Meeting

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GPSG Events

There are no upcoming GPSG events at this time. 

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Events Around Campus

Publishing Talk with Jynne Dilling, Riverhead Books promotional image

Publishing Talk with Jynne Dilling, Riverhead Books

Monday, October 27, 2025 7:00pm to 8:00pm
English-Philosophy Building
Publishing Talk with Jynne Dilling, Riverhead Books
5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music - A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 2: Texture promotional image

5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music - A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 2: Texture

Monday, October 27, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music - A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 2: Texture

Professor Matthew Arndt emcees the second of seven presentations of an intergalactic music poetics. Drawing together ancient wisdom and modern science, this poetics aims at transmuting one’s experience of everything as music and living joyfully even as we work confidently toward an abundant future.

There will be a première screening of a video episode produced by Rabalais Productions with artisan animation by...

Senior Recital: Jonathon Hughes, horn

Monday, October 27, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Senior Recital: Jonathon Hughes, horn

This concert is free and open to the public.

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Friday Night Series - Basketball Night Sign Up!

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 8:00am
Field House

Event Information: The Friday Night Series is a series of late night events put on by the Intramural Sports program. There will be FREE pizza, prizes given away, and participation is FREE! You can participate in one Friday Night Series event, or you can participate in all of them....it's all up to you!

Registration Information: Pre-Registration for Friday Night Series Basketball Night 3v3 Basketball begins on Monday, August 18 at 8:00 a.m. During Pre-Registration, captains can start their teams...

Neuroscience and Pharmacology Seminar - Detlef Obal, MD, PhD, DESA promotional image

Neuroscience and Pharmacology Seminar - Detlef Obal, MD, PhD, DESA

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 10:30am to 11:30am
Medical Education Research Facility

NAMs for Advanced Pharmacogenetics and Personalized Patient Care

Detlef Obal, MD, PhD, DESA
Associate Professor of Anesthesia
University of Iowa

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Microsoft Teams: Working with Files

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 11:00am to 11:45am
Virtual

This course will show you how to edit and share files in Teams chats, meetings, or channels. We will talk about best practices for Team file storage and organization as well as co-authoring files and how to access personal files view. We will discuss how Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive work together from a file storage perspective. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course. To schedule additional Microsoft Teams training for your department...

College of Pharmacy PSET Seminar Series: Christian Fernandez, PhD promotional image

College of Pharmacy PSET Seminar Series: Christian Fernandez, PhD

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 11:30am
College of Pharmacy Building

The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics (PSET) in the College of Pharmacy will host a seminar presented by: 

Christian Fernandez, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

All are welcome to attend. No pre-registration required.

Seminar Title: "NFAT Inhibitors for Improving Immunogenicity: From Target Identification to Drug Development"

Tippie Lunch & Learn Webinar | Catching Cheats: Spotting Corporate Fraud in Plain Sight promotional image

Tippie Lunch & Learn Webinar | Catching Cheats: Spotting Corporate Fraud in Plain Sight

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual
The business world is full of complex financial maneuvers. But which schemes are most common, and how can they be caught? Explore insider trading, Ponzi schemes, and accounting manipulation — and learn how data, patterns, and forensics expose fraud.

Students in Distress Workshop—Students only

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Boyd Law Building

The Working with Students in Distress workshop is coming to Boyd! Led by Barry A. Schreier, Ph.D., everyone is sure to learn something new. During this workshop, you will gain:

Practical skills and language to help navigate challenging interactions

The confidence to help students dealing with mental health concerns, and

An understanding of how and when to access campus and community resources that support students.

Barry A. Schreier, Ph.D., Director, Higher Education Program, Scanlan Center for...

Global Perspectives: Israel-Palestine Conflict Under International Law promotional image

Global Perspectives: Israel-Palestine Conflict Under International Law

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 12:45pm to 1:45pm
Boyd Law Building

Gabor Rona, Professor of Practice at Cardozo Law School, will discuss recent developments under international law with respect to the Israel-Palestine conflict, including charges brought by the International Criminal Court against both Israeli and Hamas leaders for war crimes. Professor Rona will also address recent sanctions imposed by the Trump Administration against the ICC for its prosecution of Israeli officials; he is one of several human rights experts challenging the sanctions as an...

Global Perspectives: Israel-Palestine Conflict Under International Law promotional image

Global Perspectives: Israel-Palestine Conflict Under International Law

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 12:45pm to 1:45pm
Boyd Law Building

Gabor Rona, Professor of Practice at Cardozo Law School, will discuss recent developments under international law with respect to the Israel-Palestine conflict, including charges brought by the International Criminal Court against both Israeli and Hamas leaders for war crimes. Professor Rona will also address recent sanctions imposed by the Trump Administration against the ICC for its prosecution of Israeli officials; he is one of several human rights experts challenging the sanctions as an...

MEFLS Entertainment Panel

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 12:45pm to 1:30pm
Boyd Law Building

Music, Entertainment, and Fashion Law Society Panel: Join MEFLS for a Q&A panel featuring attorneys working across the entertainment industry and hear firsthand about their unique career paths. This event is a great opportunity to explore the diverse legal opportunities available after law school and gain insights into breaking into these creative fields.

Operator Theory Seminar - Professor Emeritus Paul Muhly; Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa promotional image

Operator Theory Seminar - Professor Emeritus Paul Muhly; Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 1:30pm to 2:20pm
Van Allen Hall
Operator Theory Seminar
Mathematical Physics Seminar - Professor Vincent Rodgers; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Iowa promotional image

Mathematical Physics Seminar - Professor Vincent Rodgers; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Iowa

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 2:30pm to 3:20pm
Van Allen Hall
Mathematical Physics Seminar

Department of Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Bowen Science Building
Plasma Physics Seminar - Xin An, PhD; University of California promotional image

Plasma Physics Seminar - Xin An, PhD; University of California

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Van Allen Hall
Plasma Physics Seminar
Kaffeeklatsch - German Conversation Hour promotional image

Kaffeeklatsch - German Conversation Hour

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Phillips Hall
Come and practice your German in a comfortable group setting!

Legal Theory Reading Group

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Big Grove Brewery

Newcomers always welcome! At each LTRG meeting, we discuss a recent work tackling contemporary issues in legal theory. Professors Diamantis (law), Davidovic (philosophy), Hasan (philosophy), Patridge (law) and Jordan (law) will entertain you with stupid human tricks and smart discussion prompts. Meetings are low key and friendly. The whole point is to have fun! The only expectation is that you come prepared to discuss.

OWLSS x WOCC Finals Tips & Tricks

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 6:00pm to 10:00pm
Boyd Law Building

You are invited! Please join OWLSS and WOCC for our annual Finals Tips & Tricks event on Tuesday, October 28 starting at 6pm in Levitt Auditorium (295 BLB). We will have conversations on advice to help 1L Iowa law students navigate their first law school finals season, while enjoying a provided dinner and plenty of Halloween candy. 2L and 3L students are also encouraged to join! If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Amina Talic (amina-talic@uiowa.edu) and Taylor Shotwell (taylor...

Intro to Mindfulness Workshop for Students promotional image

Intro to Mindfulness Workshop for Students

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 6:00pm to 7:15pm
Adler Journalism and Mass Communication Building
Sign up for a free, 4-week workshop to learn mindfulness meditation in community with other students

Horn Masterclass with Aliyah Danielle

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Horn Masterclass with Aliyah Danielle

This event is free and open to the public.

PhD Candidate Kevin Bollinger - Microbiology Graduate Program Seminar promotional image

PhD Candidate Kevin Bollinger - Microbiology Graduate Program Seminar

Wednesday, October 29, 2025 9:00am to 10:00am
Bowen Science Building
Pain Interest Group Workshop - Zoe Sirotiak promotional image

Pain Interest Group Workshop - Zoe Sirotiak

Wednesday, October 29, 2025 9:00am to 10:00am
Medical Education Research Facility

Allostatic load and pain-related symptom burden: Linking biology to somatic experience

Zoe Sirotiak
Graduate Research Assistant
Kohut Lab, Dept of Kinesiology
Phillips Lab, Dept of Psychology
Iowa State University

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Study Hall

Wednesday, October 29, 2025 10:00am to 12:00pm
University of Iowa Museum of Natural History
The Museum of Natural History welcomes students each week for a study session in our galleries. We'll provide the snacks, cushions, and ambiance. You bring your planners, textbooks, or assignments. Together, we'll stay ahead of our goals this semester.
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