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

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The University of Iowa Computing Conference (UICC) 2026

Sunday, February 22, 2026 (all day)
University of Iowa Main Library
Welcome students, faculty, and all members of the community to our annual UIowa Computing Conference!

Chamber Music: Caleb J. Estrada-Valentín, flute

Sunday, February 22, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Chamber Music: Caleb J. Estrada-Valentín, flute

Sayyod Mirzomurodov, clarinet
Alec Gabel, oboe
Keegan Hockett, bassoon
Ana Clark, flute

This concert is free and open to the public.

Canceled
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Center for New Music Ensemble Concert III

Sunday, February 22, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Center for New Music Ensemble Concert III

Click here for program.

Part of Free Week 2026, a festival sponsored by Think Iowa City and the Iowa City Downtown District.

More concert details can be viewed here on the Center for New Music website: https://cnm.uiowa.edu/

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

This concert is free and open to the public. It's also part of New Work City, the spring initiative by Performing Arts At Iowa to...

Clarence Tow Seminar Series in Economics: Cormac O'Dea

Monday, February 23, 2026 10:45am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Cormac O'Dea is an assistant professor of Economics at Yale University.

Big Ten Neuroscience Seminar

Monday, February 23, 2026 11:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual
Neuroscience presentations (virtual) hosted by Big Ten Academic Alliance members
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Frontiers in Obesity, Diabetes and Metabolism Seminar - Kevin Williams, PhD

Monday, February 23, 2026 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Carver Biomedical Research Building

Kevin Williams, PhD, Associate Professor of in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a member of the Center for Hypothalamic Research will be giving a talk titled, "Neural Plasticity in Energy Homeostasis and Obesity".

Nuclear & Particle Physics Seminar - Blake Senseman & Joel Choi; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Iowa

Monday, February 23, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Van Allen Hall
Nuclear & Particle Physics Seminar
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CSD Professional Seminar Series

Monday, February 23, 2026 3:45pm to 4:45pm
Virtual

Title: "Beyond the Audiogram: Data-Driven Insights to Precision Audiology"

Speaker: Varsha M. Athreya, Ph.D.

Speech perception in noise (SPIN) varies widely across individuals, even among those with similar pure-tone averages (PTA), highlighting a fundamental limitation of the most used metric in hearing care. While PTA offers a convenient summary of hearing sensitivity, it ignores audiometric configuration and has limited ability to predict real-world communication outcomes, hearing-aid benefit...

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Playwrights Workshop Reading: Soup Chicken

Monday, February 23, 2026 5:30pm
Theatre Building

By Emily Kaufman-Bell

Theodora is hiding a dark secret from her granddaughter, Atlas.

Please be advised this play contains depictions of blood and violence.

Part of Theatre Arts' Reading Series

Tickets:
Tickets for readings are free of charge; seating is limited.

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Book Reading by Clare Kinberg

Monday, February 23, 2026 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Prairie Lights Books

Join the University of Iowa (UI) Jewish Studies Network, an International Programs affinity group, for a special event with author Clare Kinberg. Kinberg will read from her novel, By the Waters of Paradise: An American Story of Racism and Rupture in a Jewish Family, and share reflections on uncovering long-hidden truths within her family’s history.

Clare Kinberg is a white Jewish woman whose wife and daughters are descendants of the African diaspora. When she discovered her estranged Aunt Rose’s...

Recital: Omar H Elmusa, Trombone

Monday, February 23, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

DMA Qualifying Recital: Omar H Elmusa, Trombone

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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Anthology Ally: An ICON Course Accessibility Tool

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 8:30am to 9:30am
Virtual

Anthology Ally is a powerful tool in your ICON courses. It provides instructors guidance and feedback on accessibility issues in their course sites and offers students multiple formats for downloading and using course materials. Join us to learn how this tool works, how you can make your course sites more accessible, and how it can increase students' ability to engage with your course materials.

Register for event.

The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and...

Iowa Court of Appeals Day

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 10:00am to 4:00pm
Boyd Law Building

The Iowa Court of Appeals will visit the College of Law on Tuesday, February 24, 2026. The seven-judge panel will preside over appellate cases in Levitt Auditorium with a Q&A session for the public following each case.

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Neuroscience and Pharmacology Seminar - Justin Wolter, PhD

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 10:30am to 11:30am
Medical Education Research Facility

Molecular Determinants of Purkinje Neurodegeneration in ARSACS

Justin Wolter, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Genetics, Waisman Center
University of Wisconsin - Madison

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College of Pharmacy PSET Seminar Series: Bill Thiel, PhD

Tuesday, February 24, 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: 

Bill Thiel, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Iowa

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

Online Degree Programs Information Session

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 12:00pm to 12:29pm
Virtual

Join us for a 30-minute online overview of the Bachelor of Applied Studies (BAS) and Bachelor of Liberal Studies (BLS) online degree programs from the Univeristy of Iowa. You can join from a PC, Mac, iOS, or Android device here: BAS and BLS Information Session Zoom Link

You are welcome to drop-in or register!

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Common Ground: Applications of Eminent Domain

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 12:45pm to 2:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)
Join GPSG and Faculty Senate for an interdisciplinary panel over the lunch hour. Hear perspectives from engineering, law, and planning/land use on eminent domain.

From Logo to Legacy: The Business of Hawkeye Branding

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 12:45pm to 1:45pm
Boyd Law Building

Join leaders from the University of Iowa Hawkeye Branding Team for an inside look at how one of college athletics’ most recognizable identities is built, protected, and evolved. This conversation will explore the strategic foundations of sports branding and the powerful intersections between athletics, entertainment, and intellectual property.

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Microsoft Teams: Working with Files

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 1:00pm to 1:45pm
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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Isidore String Quartet at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 1:00pm
Dey House
The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Hancher Auditorium, and the Iowa String Quartet Residency Program present the Isidore String Quartet for an intimate hour-long afternoon concert at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop Frank Conroy Reading Room.

Seminar Series: Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Bowen Science Building

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

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Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - Professor Maxim Pospelov; School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 3:30pm to 4:50pm
Van Allen Hall
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
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LLLC Work in Progress Working Group

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Phillips Hall

LLLC Work in progress Working Group presentations will take place on the fourth Tuesday of each month in 318 Phillips Hall from 3:30-5pm.These workshops will feature writing by WIP group members, which will be circulated beforehand by the author/translator/scholar. We will begin with a short presentation by the writer, followed by workshop and Q&A. The goal of these meetings is to give a platform for working group members to share writing and get feedback, edits, ideas from colleagues in the...

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Iowa baseball vs. Wartburg

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 4:05pm
Duane Banks Field
The Iowa baseball team hosts Wartburg College.
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