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

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

CLAS Staff Council DVIP Donation Drive promotional image

CLAS Staff Council DVIP Donation Drive

Monday, April 6 to Friday, April 17, 2026 (all day)
CLAS Staff Council
CLAS Staff Council DVIP Donation Drive
Call for Nominations: 2026 UI Family Spirit Award promotional image

Call for Nominations: 2026 UI Family Spirit Award

Monday, April 6 to Thursday, April 9, 2026 (all day)
Virtual
Calling all Hawkeyes! It’s time to nominate your favorite family for the 2026 University of Iowa Family Spirit Award.
Film Screening at FilmScene | Chameleon Street promotional image

Film Screening at FilmScene | Chameleon Street

Monday, April 6, 2026 7:00pm to 9:00pm
FilmScene

The Stanley presents a Pay What You Can screening of the independent film, Chameleon Street, in collaboration with FilmScene. Arrive at 6:15pm for a pre-screening meal and stay after for a post-screening discussion.

Reserve your tickets here.

This programming is related the exhibition, Flex: Masculinities in the Arts of Global Africa, on view at the Stanley from February 28, 2026 - July 26, 2026.

CHAMELEON STREET
(1989, Comedy, Drama, 94 min) Dir. Wendell B. Harris Jr.
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize...

This Is the Route of My Forefathers: The 1837 Ioway Map | Iowa City promotional image

This Is the Route of My Forefathers: The 1837 Ioway Map | Iowa City

Monday, April 6, 2026 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Join University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist adjunct research associate and former Iowa State Archaeologist, William Green, for a book discussion and meet the author event for his new title, This is the Route of My Forefathers: The 1837 Ioway Map. He will be joined in conversation by Alan Kelley of the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska.

Campus Safety Self-Defense Class

Monday, April 6, 2026 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)
Self-Defense Class

Flute Studio Recital- Works by Living Composers

Monday, April 6, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Flute Studio Recital- Works by Living Composers

University of Iowa Flute Studio
Emily Ho
Ryan MacDonald
Caleb Estrada-Valentín
Chaosupei Gao
Eric Luminais
Ana Clark
Jair Lopez
Isabella Anderson
Ella Boesen
Mikaila Matheson
Brady Johnson
Jay White
Ali Taylor
Jessica Ford

This concert is free and open to the public.

Zeitgeist Duo: Theodor Carlson, baritone and Hyun Kim, piano

Monday, April 6, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Zeitgeist Duo: Theodor Carlson, baritone and Hyun Kim, piano

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.

Recital: Sean Harken, bass-baritone

Monday, April 6, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Recital: Sean Harken, bass-baritone

This concert is free and open to the public.

Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Program Thesis Defense Seminar: Ashby Martin promotional image

Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Program Thesis Defense Seminar: Ashby Martin

Monday, April 6, 2026 11:30pm
Medical Laboratories

Ashby Martin is a PhD candidate in the Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Graduate Program. His research has been conducted in Dr. Dan Tranel's laboratory.

If you are unable to attend in person, please consider showing your support and attending via Zoom. Please email britt-hokanson@uiowa.edu for the zoom link.

CLAS Staff Council DVIP Donation Drive promotional image

CLAS Staff Council DVIP Donation Drive

Tuesday, April 7 to Friday, April 17, 2026 (all day)
CLAS Staff Council
CLAS Staff Council DVIP Donation Drive
Call for Nominations: 2026 UI Family Spirit Award promotional image

Call for Nominations: 2026 UI Family Spirit Award

Tuesday, April 7 to Thursday, April 9, 2026 (all day)
Virtual
Calling all Hawkeyes! It’s time to nominate your favorite family for the 2026 University of Iowa Family Spirit Award.
Engaging Across Cultures: Navigating Intercultural Conflicts promotional image

Engaging Across Cultures: Navigating Intercultural Conflicts

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 9:00am to 11:00am
Virtual
In this interactive session, participants will explore the four intercultural conflict styles using the Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory (ICS). The ICS is an 18-item assessment that measures individuals’ core approaches to communicating about differences, resolving conflicts, and solving problems across cultures.
Graduate History Society's Spring Book Sale promotional image

Graduate History Society's Spring Book Sale

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 9:00am to 4:00pm
Schaeffer Hall
Graduate History Society's Spring Book Sale
Microsoft Teams: Get Started with Teams Phone promotional image

Microsoft Teams: Get Started with Teams Phone

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 10:00am to 10:30am
Virtual

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

REDCap Basic Training

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 10:00am to 11:30am
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 and...

Hardin Open Workshops: Open Access: Policies, Publishers, and Predators (Zoom) promotional image

Hardin Open Workshops: Open Access: Policies, Publishers, and Predators (Zoom)

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual
Hardin Open Workshops: Open Access: Policies, Publishers, and Predators

Abortion Aftercare Kit Assembly

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Boyd Law Building

Join If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice in assembling abortion aftercare kits for the Emma Goldman Clinic! This event is open to all students and staff. Food will be provided.

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BMB Research Workshop

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 12:30pm to 1:20pm
Medical Education Research Facility

The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology holds research workshops featuring internal speakers on Tuesdays, 12:30-1:20pm. For Spring 2026, these will occur in 2117 MERF. Presentation titles are not publicly available due to the use of unpublished research. Individuals interested in attending workshops or being added to the email list should contact the office at biochem@uiowa.edu.

Jan. 20: CANCELED

Jan. 27: Lori Wallrath, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Feb. 3...

Operator Theory Seminar - Professor Raúl Curto; Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa promotional image

Operator Theory Seminar - Professor Raúl Curto; Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 1:30pm to 2:20pm
Van Allen Hall
Operator Theory Seminar
13th Annual Fulbright Week - The Application Start to Finish promotional image

13th Annual Fulbright Week - The Application Start to Finish

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Virtual
Would you like to teach English, study, or do research abroad for an academic year at no cost? Join International Programs for a week of virtual workshops and information sessions to kick off the 2027-2028 Fulbright U.S. Student Program competition!
Mathematical Physics Seminar - Nich Harshman; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Iowa promotional image

Mathematical Physics Seminar - Nich Harshman; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Iowa

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 2:30pm to 3:20pm
Van Allen Hall
Mathematical Physics Seminar

Seminar Series: Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Bowen Science Building

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

Bachelor of Arts in Social Work Info Session

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Virtual

Please join us via Zoom for an info session to learn more about earning a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work degree.

https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/96938044127

Contact our Admissions Office directly with any questions or requests.

ssw-admissions@uiowa.edu

319-335-1250

Rapid Response History: A Judeo-Christian Tradition? promotional image

Rapid Response History: A Judeo-Christian Tradition?

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
Rapid Response History
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