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

CLAS Staff Council DVIP Donation Drive promotional image

CLAS Staff Council DVIP Donation Drive

Wednesday, April 8 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

Wednesday, April 8 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.
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Hope and fears: Why journalism remains essential in a time of global democratic erosion

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 6:00pm to 7:15pm
Iowa City Public Library
Prof. Silvio Waisbord will interrogate the global role of journalism as authoritarianism and populism gain ground and civil society faces escalating crises.
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Peer-to-Peer Power-Up Social

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Double Tap (Tap Tap)

The Graduate College has joined the Graduate Student Senate and the Graduate & Professional Student Government to encourage a week-long celebration of our graduate students from April 6-10, 2026. Learn more about the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students.

Join us for an evening of connection, community, and conversation at our Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Mentor Social at Double Tap, 121 E. College Street)! This casual gathering is a chance for P2P Mentor Program participants to unwind...

The Nonlinear Writer: How English Majors Build Careers Across Media, Sports, and Live Culture with Jason Torres promotional image

The Nonlinear Writer: How English Majors Build Careers Across Media, Sports, and Live Culture with Jason Torres

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 7:00pm to 8:00pm
English-Philosophy Building
How to Be an Influencer: Talk with Jason Torres

Joint Sophomore Recital: Josiah Goodlett, Bass and Kirsten Staker, Soprano

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Joint Sophomore Recital: Josiah Goodlett, Bass and Kirsten Staker, Soprano

This concert is free and open to the public.

CLAS Staff Council DVIP Donation Drive promotional image

CLAS Staff Council DVIP Donation Drive

Thursday, April 9 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

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.
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Carmichael Symposium Call for Participants

Thursday, April 9 to Friday, April 10, 2026 (all day)
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)

CBE has a long and distinguished history of outstanding research and graduate student training. This is best exemplified by the pioneering work of Karl Kammermeyer (department head 1949-1972) on membrane separations initiated in late 1940s. Greg Carmichael, the Karl Kammermeyer Professor, has been part of CBE for nearly 50 years and served as department chair for 14 years and associate dean for research and graduate studies in the college for another dozen years. The research conducted by his...

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Top Hat Student Response System

Thursday, April 9, 2026 8:30am to 9:30am
Virtual

Top Hat has several options to engage students with in-class quizzes, surveys, and discussions, as well as attendance features that connect to the ICON gradebook. Learn how to get started with this platform and get ideas to adapt it to your courses.

Register for 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...

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Tippie College of Business Coffee Time, Graduate Programs for UIHC Employees

Thursday, April 9, 2026 9:00am to 12:00pm
UI Hospital
Tabling event with free coffee and swag for all UIHC employees!

Spring 2026 IRB Office Hours

Thursday, April 9, 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.

AI User Group: AI, Data, and Decision-Making in Athletics

Thursday, April 9, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual
Join this month’s AI User Group for a virtual conversation with Eddie T. Etsey on how AI, data, analytics, and decision-making come together in Athletics.

REDCap Surveys Training

Thursday, April 9, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This is the third step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will cover survey configuration and distribution such as:

Allowing potential participants to self-initiate participation in your study with public surveys

Manually and automatically sending surveys

Administering electronic consent (e-consent) forms

Controlling survey access with conditional logic and survey login

This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training you will have a basic understanding of surveys in...

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar: Dr. Michael Lagunoff promotional image

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar: Dr. Michael Lagunoff

Thursday, April 9, 2026 10:30am to 11:20am
Medical Education Research Facility

This event is open to the public.

Alteration of cellular metabolism and lipids by the oncogenic virus, KSHV

Michael Lagunoff, PhD
MCB Graduate Program
University of Washington

Lagunoff Lab | https://faculty.washington.edu/lagunoff/#/

Faculty Co-Hosts: Miles Pufall, PhD and Jessica Tucker, PhD

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The Mini Series: Meet The Ambassadors

Thursday, April 9, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Pomerantz Center
Get the opportunity to meet the student ambassadors representing the full-time programs at Tippie.

OWLSS Spring Conference: Lawyer in the Making - Personal Branding and Professional Development for Law Students

Thursday, April 9, 2026 12:30pm to 1:45pm
Boyd Law Building

Come join OWLSS for our spring conference. This year, the conference is all about developing your professional and personal brand as a lawyer. We will have a guest speaker via zoom along with food being provided.

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Neuroscience and Pharmacology Workshop - Gabby Bierlein-De La Rosa (Flippo Lab) & Sean Brobston (Lehmler Lab)

Thursday, April 9, 2026 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Medical Education Research Facility

FGF21 as a neuroendocrine modulator of alcohol consumption and cued fear

Gabby Bierlein-De La Rosa
Neuroscience PhD/ MSTP Student in Dr. Kyle Flippo's Lab

A Bad Gut Feeling: How the Microbiome Shapes PCB Metabolism and Neurotoxic Outcomes

Sean Brobston
Human Toxicology PhD Student in Dr. Hans-Joachim Lehmler's Lab

A Lawyer's Role in the Global Environmental Movement: Lunchtime Chat with Alfred Brownell

Thursday, April 9, 2026 12:45pm to 1:45pm
Boyd Law Building

A Lawyer's Role in the Global Environmental Movement: Lunchtime Chat with Alfred Brownell
Students are welcome to meet the global environmental law leader, Alfred Brownell, for a lunchtime discussion on his work in Liberia and beyond.

Exploring Careers in Tax Law: A Conversation with Jonathan C. Landon of Fredrikson & Byron

Thursday, April 9, 2026 12:45pm to 1:45pm
Boyd Law Building

Join the Iowa Tax Law Society for a conversation with Jonathan C. Landon, Shareholder with Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. and College of Law alumnus (J.D. '09). Come learn and ask questions about Mr. Landon's experience at the University of Florida Levin College of Law's LL.M. in Taxation program, clerkship with the Honorable David Gustafson on the United States Tax Court, and current career with Fredrikson & Byron. Lunch will be provided!

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Artificial Intelligence Lightning Talks

Thursday, April 9, 2026 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Virtual
April AI Lightning Talks
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Microsoft Loop: Get Started with Loop

Thursday, April 9, 2026 1:00pm to 1:45pm
Virtual

Microsoft Loop is a transformative co-creation experience that brings together teams, content, and tasks across your tools and devices. This training will introduce you to Loop workspaces, which can be used as a notetaking tool or to manage projects. Additionally, we will discuss how you can integrate a Loop workspace into a team in Microsoft Teams. While this is a Microsoft Loop training, it is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before attending this session.

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Humanities Write-In

Thursday, April 9, 2026 2:00pm to 4:00pm
111 Church Street

The Graduate College has joined the Graduate Student Senate and the Graduate & Professional Student Government to encourage a week-long celebration of our graduate students April 6–10, 2026.

Celebrate Graduate Student Appreciation Week with dedicated writing time and meaningful community. Join us for a focused Humanities Write-In facilitated by Grad Ambassadors, designed to offer structure, accountability, and connection for Iowa’s graduate and professional students working on any kind of...

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Physics and Astronomy Thesis Defense Seminar - Kevin Hall

Thursday, April 9, 2026 2:00pm
Van Allen Hall
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