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

Stop/Time Festival promotional image

Stop/Time Festival

Saturday, April 4, 2026 (all day)
Hancher Auditorium
Stop/Time Festival is a two-day, multi-venue, multi-artist spring festival produced by Hancher Auditorium and devoted to innovation and independence in contemporary music and the arts. This is a festival of discovery—opening our ears and minds to new sounds, ideas, and possibilities.
Call for Nominations: 2026 UI Family Spirit Award promotional image

Call for Nominations: 2026 UI Family Spirit Award

Saturday, April 4 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.
The Homage to Mirage promotional image

The Homage to Mirage

Saturday, April 4, 2026 (all day)
Pride Alliance Center
The Homage to Mirage
Dance Thesis Concert: Lauren Linder, Mikey Rioux promotional image

Dance Thesis Concert: Lauren Linder, Mikey Rioux

Saturday, April 4, 2026 8:00pm
Space Place Theater

Free and open to the public.

This performance will feature works choreographed by graduate students Lauren Linder and Mikey Rioux from the University of Iowa Department of Dance.

Please be advised this performance includes adult language and moments where dancers will enter the house.

Program
Flowering Body Blooming Mind choreography and improvography by Mikey Rioux in collaboration with Rachel Carpenter, Olivia Farmerie, Sydney Gorak, Tori Lefler, Ally Meinders, Lindsey Wildman
tracing fragments/...

Call for Nominations: 2026 UI Family Spirit Award promotional image

Call for Nominations: 2026 UI Family Spirit Award

Sunday, April 5 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.
Iowa baseball vs. Minnesota promotional image

Iowa baseball vs. Minnesota

Sunday, April 5, 2026 1:05pm
Duane Banks Field
The Iowa baseball team hosts Minnesota.

Senior Recital: Darwin Kohl, Tenor

Sunday, April 5, 2026 3:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Senior Recital: Darwin Kohl, Tenor

Darwin Kohl - Tenor
Caleb Haselhuhn - Baritone

This concert is free and open to the public.

Faculty and Guest Recital: Doreen Lee, Jamie Clark, and Patrick Yim

Sunday, April 5, 2026 5:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Faculty and Guest Recital: Doreen Lee, Jamie Clark, and Patrick Yim

Click here for program.

Event can be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream

This concert is free and open to the public.

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.

Clarence Tow Seminar Series in Economics: Rohit Allena

Monday, April 6, 2026 10:45am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Rohit Allena is an assistant professor at the University of Houston.

AI Prompting (Advanced): Elevating your Craft

Monday, April 6, 2026 11:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual
Designed for users who already understand the basics, this session dives deeper into prompt engineering techniques to generate more precise, creative, and impactful generative artificial intelligence responses.
OSA Brown Bag | A Forgotten Excavation: Seeberger Cave promotional image

OSA Brown Bag | A Forgotten Excavation: Seeberger Cave

Monday, April 6, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Clinton Street Building
Join Bill Green, OSA Adjunct Research Associate and former Iowa State Archaeologist, as he presents an OSA Brown Bag talk on excavations at Seeberger Cave. This program is free and open to the public. It will also be viewable via Zoom.
13th Annual Fulbright Week - New Competition Opens Info Session promotional image

13th Annual Fulbright Week - New Competition Opens Info Session

Monday, April 6, 2026 12:30pm to 1:30pm
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!

Across the Aisle: Housing Affordability

Monday, April 6, 2026 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Boyd Law Building

Brought to you by the Collegiate Community Committee, our goal is to bridge divisions by bringing people with different perspectives on important social issues into conversation with one another. Our upcoming topic is Housing Affordability.

Participants will pair up during lunch to discuss their views after introductory remarks. Participants are not expected to reach a consensus. Instead, the event is meant to foster civil dialogue and exchange. Across the Aisle is open to all BLB students, staff...

Virtual Clinical Science Rounds (via Zoom): Adam Bramoweth promotional image

Virtual Clinical Science Rounds (via Zoom): Adam Bramoweth

Monday, April 6, 2026 12:30pm to 1:20pm
Virtual

Dr. Bramoweth, PhD, DBSM, is a Research Health Scientist at VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System (VAPHS) in the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP) and the VISN4 Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC). He is also a Staff psychologist at VAPHS in the Behavioral Medicine Clinic where he treats behavioral sleep disorders, particularly chronic insomnia. His program of research is focused on improving access to insomnia care using methods from implementation...

Frontiers in Obesity, Diabetes and Metabolism Seminar - M. Furkan Burak, MD  promotional image

Frontiers in Obesity, Diabetes and Metabolism Seminar - M. Furkan Burak, MD

Monday, April 6, 2026 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Pappajohn Biomedical Discovery Building

Guest speaker, Furkan Burak, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine from Harvard Medical School will be giving a talk title, "The fat talks and the body listens! The effects of palmitoleic acid on metabolic syndrome".

Biostatistics Seminar: Dr. Muxuan Liang

Monday, April 6, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
College of Public Health Building
Please join the Department of Biostatistics for our second lecture of the semester: Dr. Muxuan Liang, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, MD Anderson Cancer Center, will present his research April 6th, 2026, from 3:30pm to 4:20pm in C217 CPHB.

Nuclear & Particle Physics Seminar - Aparajitha Karthikeyan; Texas A&M University

Monday, April 6, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Van Allen Hall
Nuclear & Particle Physics Seminar
Biology Seminar: "Transcriptional regulation by a fast-evolving RNA scaffold in cancer and development" promotional image

Biology Seminar: "Transcriptional regulation by a fast-evolving RNA scaffold in cancer and development"

Monday, April 6, 2026 4:00pm
Biology Building East
Yikang Rong, Ph.D., a Visiting Scholar (Helen C. Levitt Visiting Endowed Professorship) in Lori Wallrath's lab in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Iowa, will be giving a seminar on Monday, April 6, at 4:00pm in Kollros Auditorium (Room 101), Biology Building East (BBE).
Final Exam - Runtime and Compiler Optimizations for Subgraph Matching Algorithms on GPUs (RSVP) promotional image

Final Exam - Runtime and Compiler Optimizations for Subgraph Matching Algorithms on GPUs (RSVP)

Monday, April 6, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
MacLean Hall
Final Exam - PhD candidate Shihui Song: "Data Volume Reduction and Efficient Data Placement for Accelerator-Based HPC Systems" (RSVP requested)

WOCC Externship/Clinic Information Panel

Monday, April 6, 2026 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Boyd Law Building

Are you wondering what it is like to work in one of the clinics or extern with a outside organization? WOCC is hosting an informational session featuring 2Ls and 3Ls who can tell you all about their experience! Snacks will be provided.

Playwrights Workshop Reading: pill promotional image

Playwrights Workshop Reading: pill

Monday, April 6, 2026 5:30pm
Theatre Building

pill

    or, the unmedicated y-chromosome

    or, blood clots, heart attack, bleeding, nausea, vomiting, weight gain, depression, dizziness, nervousness,         headaches, mood changes, etc, etc, etc
by gwen docter

Five women sit in an office. Some women see the doctor. All of them take the pill.

Please be advised this play contains violence and mentions of suicide.

Part of Theatre Arts' Reading Series

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

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...

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