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

The ticket request period has now closed. All attendees who RSVP’d will receive additional details from GPSG soon.

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Events Around Campus

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CLAS Staff Council DVIP Donation Drive

Wednesday, April 15 to Friday, April 17, 2026 (all day)
CLAS Staff Council
CLAS Staff Council DVIP Donation Drive
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Stitching with Sandra Sawatzky: Embroidery Workshop

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 5:30pm to 7:30pm
MERGE

Join artist Sandra Sawatzky to embroider your own horse chestnut tree! This same type of tree is part of The Black Gold Tapestry on display at the Stanley Museum of Art and the same tree that Anne Frank looked at out of the annex window while in hiding. Create a beautiful embroidery and visit the Anne Frank Sapling, a descendant of the original tree, on the UI Pentacrest. All materials will be provided by the Anne Frank Initiative (AFI). No experience necessary, but participants must be at least...

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Trivia Night @ the Museum

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Old Capitol Museum
The very popular Trivia Night @ the Museum inside the historic Senate Chamber at the Old Capitol Museum is back!
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Lab Chamber Orchestra

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Lab Chamber Orchestra

This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule.

This concert is free and open to the public.

Canceled
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CLAS Staff Council DVIP Donation Drive

Thursday, April 16 to Friday, April 17, 2026 (all day)
CLAS Staff Council
CLAS Staff Council DVIP Donation Drive
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Association of Ancient Historians Meeting 2026

Thursday, April 16 to Saturday, April 18, 2026 (all day)
University of Iowa
Association of Ancient Historians Meeting 2026 supported by the Department of History, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Obermann Center, and the Perry A. and Helen J. Bond Fund for Interdisciplinary Interaction at the University of Iowa

Spring 2026 IRB Office Hours

Thursday, April 16, 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.

REDCap Data Handling

Thursday, April 16, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
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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Fountain Lobby Blood Drive

Thursday, April 16, 2026 11:00am to 4:00pm
General Hospital
The DeGowin Blood Center is hosting a blood drive from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on April 16th, 2026, at the Fountain Lobby in the ground floor of the main hospital.

Journal Open House

Thursday, April 16, 2026 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Boyd Law Building

Come visit the Commons area during the lunch hour to ask questions about journal with all four journals! This will be an informal chance to learn more about journal, building connections, and potentially win a prize!

ISBA YLD Lunch Event

Thursday, April 16, 2026 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Boyd Law Building

Join us for an informal lunch to chat with YLD members about their experiences practicing law and building their careers. Whether you're thinking about where to start your career, exploring the types of firms, curious about different practice areas, or wish to expand your professional network, stop by for as long as your schedule allows to connect with attorneys who were recently in your shoes. Lunch will be provided!

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What Your Students Wish You Knew About ICON

Thursday, April 16, 2026 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Virtual

This session will cover ways to set up and organize your ICON site so students can easily navigate it, complete work, and monitor their progress.

Register for the event.

The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and services to optimize teaching and learning through learning sciences research, ICON, teaching and learning data, and advanced classroom and instructional technology. To learn more about the services we offer, please visit our website at teach.its.uiowa...

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Microsoft Teams: Working with Files

Thursday, April 16, 2026 1:00pm to 2:00pm
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...

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International Student Hangout: Conversations that Matter

Thursday, April 16, 2026 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)

This conversation-based hangout is designed for international students who want to connect and share experiences and perspectives on topics shaping our world and campus life. There are three hangouts in this series, and all offer a welcoming space to practice asking thoughtful questions, to engage in respectful dialogue, and learn from each other’s experiences.

Whether you want to speak, listen, or simply be part of the discussion, you’re invited to join us for meaningful conversations in a...

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Physics and Astronomy Thesis Defense Seminar - David Fehr

Thursday, April 16, 2026 1:30pm
Van Allen Hall
Physics and Astronomy Thesis Defense Seminar - David Fehr
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Harper Folsom — "I'll Make It A Home" An MFA Thesis Exhibition

Thursday, April 16, 2026 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Sacred Collective
Harper Folsom's MFA Thesis Exhibition, "I'll Make It A Home"
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Final Exam - Data-efficient and Fault-tolerant Exascale Computing

Thursday, April 16, 2026 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Virtual
Final Exam - PhD candidate Shihui Song: "Data Volume Reduction and Efficient Data Placement for Accelerator-Based HPC Systems" (RSVP requested)

SEES:7000 Colloquium - Yagmur Derin (UI College of Engineering ) - "From Sensors to Ensembles: Precipitation Science for Extreme Weather and Flood Resilience"

Thursday, April 16, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Visual Arts Building
SEES:7000 Colloquium - Yagmur Derin (UI College of Engineering ) - "From Sensors to Ensembles: Precipitation Science for Extreme Weather and Flood Resilience"
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Particle Motions in Turbulence

Thursday, April 16, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Seamans Center

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Graduate Seminar

PRESENTATION: Our work is motivated by the need to understand and predict turbulent particle-laden flows across a range of environmental and industrial applications. In this talk, we consider a relatively canonical yet challenging experimental flow designed to be accessible to direct numerical simulation. A spherical particle in a turbulent boundary layer undergoes complicated particle-wall and particle-turbulence interactions. Particles with...

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Teaching and Learning Outside: Showcase and Roundtable

Thursday, April 16, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Lagoon Shelter House
Join this interactive conversation with Living Labs at Iowa to explore campus sites and gain inspiration from examples of experiential learning outdoors.

Online MSW Info Session

Thursday, April 16, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Virtual

Please join us via Zoom for an info session to learn more about the online MSW program.

https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/91760640877

Questions? Contact Lauren at ssw-admissions@uiowa.edu

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Arabic Cultural Hour

Thursday, April 16, 2026 5:00pm to 6:00pm
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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A Conversation with Paralympian & Politician Josh Turek

Thursday, April 16, 2026 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)
Speaker Event & Advocacy Roundtable with Josh Turek: Iowa Representative, U.S. Senate Candidate, Paralympian
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Symposium: Shadow Play Across the Arts and Humanities

Thursday, April 16, 2026 5:15pm to 7:30pm
Visual Arts Building
Symposium on Shadow Play
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