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

Stay tuned for more information!

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Events Around Campus

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UI Monthly Jazz Jam

Tuesday, February 3, 2026 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Tavern Blue
Jazz Studies faculty members host a monthly community jazz jam session
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Hardin Open Workshops - PubMed (Zoom)

Wednesday, February 4, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This hands-on session will help you improve your searching through best practices for basic and advanced searching and show you features for saving or exporting citations. The session will also help you understand medical subject headings (MeSH) and how they improve your search as well as the benefits of a MyNCBI account.

PLEASE NOTE:

Enrollment in HOW is open to all University of Iowa affiliates and residents of the state of Iowa. Advance registration is required for Zoom classes, though walk-ins...

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Study Hall

Wednesday, February 4, 2026 10:00am to 12:00pm
University of Iowa Museum of Natural History
The Museum of Natural History welcomes students each week for a study session in our galleries. We'll provide the snacks, cushions, and ambiance. You bring your planners, textbooks, or assignments. Together, we'll stay ahead of our goals this semester.
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CSD Professional Seminar Series

Wednesday, February 4, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual

Title: “Imaging the neural systems underlying human communication”

Speaker: Dr. Kevin Sitek, PhD

Speech communication relies on coordinated processing across cortical and subcortical auditory pathways, yet much of our understanding of the human auditory system has been limited to the cortex due to challenges in imaging deep brain structures. Recent advances in non-invasive neuroimaging, including ultra-high field 7T MRI, make it possible to study the full human auditory network and its role in...

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Iowa Innovation Leadership Fellows Informational Session

Wednesday, February 4, 2026 12:00pm to 12:30pm
Virtual

Curious about how you can address society's unmet needs through health care innovation? The Iowa Innovation Leadership Fellowship Program is a yearlong experience that connects graduate trainees with industry leaders, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs. At this session, current fellows will share insights on how the program’s coursework, networking, and mentorship opportunities have empowered them to drive impactful change. An open Q&A will follow, giving you the chance to explore how the...

Law Journals 1L Training Program

Wednesday, February 4, 2026 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Boyd Law Building

The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice, Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems, The Journal of Corporation Law, and Iowa Law Review are launching a new program to inform 1Ls about what it looks like to be a student writer on a journal. The program will occur during Week 3 of the Spring 2026 semester, and those who signed up during the Fall 2025 semester have already been contacted. If you are a 1L interested but missed the sign-up, please contact the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Gender...

Building Healthier Futures: Explore the New Maternal and Child Health Program

Wednesday, February 4, 2026 12:30pm to 1:20pm
Virtual
Explore the New Maternal and Child Health Program
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Microsoft Teams: Get Started with Teams Phone

Wednesday, February 4, 2026 1:00pm to 1:30pm
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.

Spring 2026 IRB Office Hours

Wednesday, February 4, 2026 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Virtual
IRB Office Hours are for all UI faculty, staff, and Investigators, HawkIRB delegates, and research team members involved with Human Subjects research.
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Astrophysics & Space Physics Seminar - George Hospodarsky, PhD; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Iowa

Wednesday, February 4, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Van Allen Hall
Astrophysics & Space Physics Seminar
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Exhibit Opening Celebration for ‘Orchestrating Community: The Public Service of Iowa Conductor James Dixon’

Wednesday, February 4, 2026 4:00pm to 5:30pm
University of Iowa Main Library

Enjoy refreshments, remarks from the curators, and an open house in recognition of the spring 2026 Main Library Gallery exhibition, Orchestrating Community: The Public Service of Iowa Conductor James Dixon.

Event Schedule

4–5:30 p.m.: Reception and open house with curators Sarah Suhadolnik and Katie Buehner
4:30 p.m.: Brief remarks in the Main Library Gallery
5:30 p.m.: Opening event ends
6 p.m.: Main Library Gallery closes

Admission to the gallery is always free. No RSVP required for this event.

About...

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Condensed Matter Seminar - Sagar Chowdhury, PhD; Department of Physics & Astronomy; University of Iowa

Wednesday, February 4, 2026 4:30pm to 5:20pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)
Condensed Matter Seminar

Guest Artist: Ashley Hall-Tighe with Ana María Otamendi

Wednesday, February 4, 2026 5:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Guest Artist: Ashley Hall-Tighe with Ana María Otamendi

This concert is free and open to the public.

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Intro to Mindfulness Workshop for Students

Wednesday, February 4, 2026 6:00pm to 7:15pm
Women's Resource and Action Center
Sign up for a free, 4-week workshop to learn mindfulness meditation in community with other students

Guest Solo Recital: Asiya Korepanova, Piano

Wednesday, February 4, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Guest Solo Recital: Asiya Korepanova, Piano

This concert is free and open to the public.

Spring 2026 IRB Office Hours

Thursday, February 5, 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.
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Neuroscience & Pharmacology Workshop - Yuxi Li and Hyojin (Julia) Kim

Thursday, February 5, 2026 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Medical Education Research Facility

Using projection-based transcriptomics to study metabolic control by the PVH

Yuxi Li
Pharmacology Graduate Student
Dr. Jon Resch's Lab

Neuronal mechanism of hunger-induced reward sensitization

Hyojin (Julia) Kim
Pharmacology Graduate Student
Dr. Deniz Atasoy's Lab

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Microsoft Teams: Working with Files

Thursday, February 5, 2026 2:00pm to 2:45pm
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...

Legal Research Training: Research Strategies

Thursday, February 5, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Boyd Law Building

Join the Law Library to explore essential research techniques and tools that can help you excel in your upcoming projects. Mastering these skills will not only give you a head start but also enhance your understanding, efficiency, and confidence in conducting research.

This session is especially beneficial for students working on their first research project this spring.

Sign up here: https://uiowa.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3n54czhFxLH3iZg

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A Cyber-Physical Platform for Aeroelastic System Characterization and its Application to Rigid Inverted Flags

Thursday, February 5, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Seamans Center

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Graduate Seminar

PRESENTATION: The study, optimization and data-driven modeling of aeroelastic systems require evaluating their dynamics for large parametric spaces. Obtaining comprehensive datasets of such systems is challenging as a result of the nonlinear and tightly coupled fluid and structural mechanics that govern their behavior. In this research, a cyber-physical platform is developed that enables fast evaluation of the two-way coupled fluid-structure...

SEES:7000 Colloquium - Candidate Interview

Thursday, February 5, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Visual Arts Building
SEES:7000
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Authentic Assignments

Thursday, February 5, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Virtual

Learn what platforms are available to enable students to create projects that showcase their learning beyond the classroom.

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.edu.

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Public Lecture: Post-border Poetics: North Korean Refugees and Politics of Narratives

Thursday, February 5, 2026 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Virtual
Dr. Eun Ah Cho, assistant professor of Korean language and culture in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Kansas, will examine how North Korean female refugees’ narratives against the established images and stereotypical stories that have shaped their representation.

Masterclass: Ashley Hall-Tighe

Thursday, February 5, 2026 5:00pm
Voxman Music Building

Masterclass: Ashley Hall-Tighe

This concert is free and open to the public.

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