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

Tickets open on March 1, 2026

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Events Around Campus

Iowa Reception at APhA Annual Meeting & Exposition

Sunday, March 29, 2026 5:30pm to 7:00pm
JW Marriott

Join your Iowa pharmacy family, friends, and colleagues from across the country at the Iowa Reception during the 2026 APhA Annual Meeting and Exhibition. This event will recognize Iowa award recipients and leadership, including outgoing APhA President Randy McDonough.

Hosted by IPA, Drake University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, and UI College of Pharmacy.

Key Change: Brahms and His Piano Legacy, Concert #5

Sunday, March 29, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Key Change: Brahms and His Piano Legacy, Concert #5

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.

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CLAS Staff Council DVIP Donation Drive

Monday, March 30 to Friday, April 17, 2026 (all day)
CLAS Staff Council
CLAS Staff Council DVIP Donation Drive

Clarence Tow Seminar Series in Economics: Yucheng Liang

Monday, March 30, 2026 10:45am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Yucheng Liang is an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

OWLSS Women's History Month Trivia

Monday, March 30, 2026 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Boyd Law Building

Please join OWLSS for a game of Women's History Month trivia in Room 235 at 12:30pm on March 30th. Sweet treats provided and prizes available! We hope to see you there!

Clinical Science Rounds

Monday, March 30, 2026 12:30pm to 1:20pm
Psychological and Brain Sciences Building

Clinical Science graduate students and post-bacc researchers will present updates on their research projects in 5-minute data blitzes and 15-minute research talks.

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Beyond ESG: How Environmental Governance Actually Works Inside Companies

Monday, March 30, 2026 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Boyd Law Building

Join the Hubbell Environmental Law Initiative, Vanderbilt Law School’s Private Climate Governance Lab, and the Tippie Social Impact Community for the fourth and final program in the Private Sector and the Planet series. We are pleased to welcome Jessica Frustere-Johnson, Director of Sustainability & CSR at Krause Group.

In her talk, “Beyond ESG: How Environmental Governance Actually Works Inside Companies,” Jessica will move beyond the public-facing conversation about Environmental, Social, and...

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The Private Sector and the Planet: Jessica Hinman, Director of Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility at Krause Group

Monday, March 30, 2026 12:45pm to 2:00pm
Boyd Law Building

Join the Hubbell Environmental Law Initiative, Vanderbilt Law School’s Private Climate Governance Lab, and the Tippie Social Impact Community for The Private Sector and the Planet speaker series.

For our last speaker of the 2025-2026 speaker series, we are excited to welcome Jessica Hinman, Director of Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility at Krause Group.

In her talk, “Beyond ESG: How Environmental Governance Actually Works Inside Companies,” Jessica will move beyond the public-facing...

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Frontiers in Obesity, Diabetes and Metabolism Seminar - Vitor Lira, PhD

Monday, March 30, 2026 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Carver Biomedical Research Building

Vitor Lira, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Health, Sport and Human Physiology will be giving a talk titled, "Emerging Roles of ULK1/2 in The Dynamic Control of Protein Metabolism in Skeletal Muscle."

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Nuclear & Particle Physics Seminar - Xiaojun Yao, PhD; Department of Physics, University of Washington

Monday, March 30, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Van Allen Hall
Nuclear & Particle Physics Seminar
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Earthmind Workshop

Monday, March 30, 2026 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)

Earthmind is…

Provided in a collaboration with Backyard Abundance, a local nonprofit organization

Taught in four, 75-minute classes

Taught in small groups

Registration required. Space is limited; please only sign up if you can attend all four classes.

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Laurie Hernandez: "I've Got This"

Monday, March 30, 2026 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)

Since bringing home the gold and silver medals from the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Laurie has won the coveted Mirror ball trophy on Dancing with the Stars Season 23 and published her first New York Times bestselling book titled I Got This: To Gold and Beyond. In 2018, she released a NYT bestseller children’s picture book She’s Got This, and Mattel created a Laurie Hernandez Shero Barbie to honor her and her Latina heritage.

She has served as the KPMG Literacy Champion to promote readership as a path...

Junior Recital: Xavier Vongphakdy, double bass

Monday, March 30, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Junior Recital: Xavier Vongphakdy, double bass

This concert is free and open to the public.

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CLAS Staff Council DVIP Donation Drive

Tuesday, March 31 to Friday, April 17, 2026 (all day)
CLAS Staff Council
CLAS Staff Council DVIP Donation Drive

Introduction to ChatGPT Edu: Key Features and Best Practices

Tuesday, March 31, 2026 9:00am to 10:00am
Virtual
An introductory training to ChatGPT Edu
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Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Seminar, Tatjana Jakobs, MD

Tuesday, March 31, 2026 9:30am to 10:30am
Bowen Science Building
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College of Pharmacy PSET Seminar Series: Yuan Zhang, PhD

Tuesday, March 31, 2026 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: 

Yuan Zhang, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa

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

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Quizzes: ICON User Group

Tuesday, March 31, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual

This session of the ICON User Group will start with an overview of how to use Quizzes and Respondus Lockdown Browser in ICON and then lead into faculty discussing how they use ICON, asking each other questions and giving each other tips. All instructors are welcome to attend ICON User Group sessions.

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...

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Spring Panel Series: AI Across the Disciplines

Tuesday, March 31, 2026 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)
An interdisciplinary panel on artificial intelligence featuring speakers from medicine, business, and philosophy.

Academic Success Workshop presented by Professor Graham

Tuesday, March 31, 2026 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Boyd Law Building

CCC Community Potluck

Tuesday, March 31, 2026 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Boyd Law Building

The CCC is hosting a Law School Community Potluck to celebrate the start of classes after Spring Break on Tuesday, March 31st from 12:30-2 in the Student Lounge (BLB 494).

Food brings people together. In past years, the law school has hosted a cultural showcase to highlight the many traditions among our community members. This year, we are changing up the format to welcome all law school community members to share a dish that carries a special meaning — whether that is your cultural heritage...

Canceled

Lawyering With Care: An Introduction to Trauma-Informed Practice

Tuesday, March 31, 2026 12:45pm to 2:00pm
Boyd Law Building

Join Alexandra Doner, a family law attorney with Simmons Perrine PLC, for an introduction to trauma-informed lawyering and why it matters for your future clients.

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Crafternoon

Tuesday, March 31, 2026 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)

Get crafty with us at Crafternoon! Join us for various fun crafts Tuesday, March 31 from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Homecoming Room at the IMU.✂🖇

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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, March 31, 2026 1:30pm to 2:20pm
Van Allen Hall
Operator Theory Seminar
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