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

Tickets open on March 1, 2026

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Events Around Campus

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LLLC Carnival Celebration

Tuesday, February 17, 2026 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Phillips Hall
Join the Portuguese and Italian programs for a carnival party and mask making event!
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Intuitive Eating Workshop for Students

Tuesday, February 17, 2026 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Campus Recreation and Wellness Center

Intuitive Eating is an approach that teaches you how to create a healthy relationship with your food, mind, and body. It is based on 10 basic principles that invite you to a world of satisfying eating and a sense of freedom from dieting.

The four-week workshop is free for students and will provide education, activities, practice, and support to improve your food and body image awareness.

Register for the summer workshop by visiting our website.

DMA Qualifying Recital: Jacob White, horn

Tuesday, February 17, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

DMA Qualifying Recital: Jacob White, horn

Click here for concert 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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Men's basketball vs. Nebraska

Tuesday, February 17, 2026 8:00pm
Carver-Hawkeye Arena
The Iowa men's basketball team hosts Nebraska.
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Microsoft Teams: Meetings

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This course is designed for users who would like to gain a better understanding about one of the key collaboration tools within Microsoft Teams — meetings. We will cover scheduling a meeting, as well as how to use the controls and features available during the meeting, such as breakout rooms. After the meeting is over, we will teach you how to access recordings, in-meeting chat, notes, and files. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course. To...

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Study Hall

Wednesday, February 18, 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.

Getting started with Linux Command Line on Argon (Zoom)

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 10:00am to 11:30am
Virtual

This workshop is geared toward UI researchers who are not familiar with the Linux command line environment. It covers essential and fundamental Linux shell commands to help users develop their way to Linux mastery. This workshop will NOT cover advanced commands and shell scripts. Prior coding and Linux experience are not required. Doosoo Yoon in the ITS Research Services team will lead this workshop.

It will be lectured by Doosoo Yoon from Research Services and will include hands-on training.

The...

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Accessibility Focus: Writing Effective ALT Text

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 12:00pm to 12:45pm
Virtual
ALT text is a core concept in digital accessibility. Join us to learn some practices for providing better ALT text.
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CSD Professional Seminar Series

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual

Title: "Perception of complex sounds across frequency"

Speaker: Daniel Guest, Ph.D.

Detection and analysis of complex sounds is essential for speech communication and making sense of the acoustic environment. In this talk, I will present several experiments that compare complex sound perception at low (below ~4 kHz) and high frequencies (above ~4 kHz) and reveal fundamental limitations in our ability to analyze complex sounds at higher frequencies. I will demonstrate how physiological models of...

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University of Iowa Sound Awareness for Everyone: Promoting Healthy Hearing in Public Health

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 12:30pm to 1:30pm
College of Public Health Building
Doctor of Audiology Graduate Students will join faculty, staff, and students at the College of Public Health to discuss basics of hearing loss, healthy hearing habits, as well as the intersectionality of audiology and public health.
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From Statutes to Soil: How Environmental Law and Geoscience Interact in Practice

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Boyd Law Building

What happens when environmental lawyers and geoscientists team up to tackle contaminated sites? Join Iowa Law alum Michael Dunning (Partner at Perkins Coie) and David Cook (Principal Geologist at the State of Washington Water Research Center) for a candid conversation on real-world collaboration at the intersection of law, science, and redevelopment - from hazardous waste cleanup to major urban projects. This joint HELI-SEES session will explore why interdisciplinary fluency isn’t just useful in...

Spring 2026 IRB Office Hours

Wednesday, February 18, 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 - Associate Professor Ken Gayley; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Iowa

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Van Allen Hall
Astrophysics & Space Physics Seminar
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French Game Night

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Phillips Hall
Join the UI French program from game night in the CLCL with free pizza and drinks!
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First Round

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Dr. Bob Cargill will explore the question, “Can Archaeology Prove the Bible?”
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Intro to Mindfulness Workshop for Students

Wednesday, February 18, 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
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Chamber Music Concert of Works by Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor Lowell Liebermann

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Chamber Music Concert of Works by Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor Lowell Liebermann

Click here for program.

This concert is free and open to the public, and is part of Free Week 2026, a festival sponsored by Think Iowa City and the Iowa City Downtown District.

Air for flute and organ Op.106 (2008) c.10’00”

Nicole Esposito, flute

Greg Hand, organ

Sonata for Contrabass and Piano Op.24 (1987) c.25'00"

Volkan Orhon, contrabass

Doreen Lee, piano

-Intermission-

Three Lullabies for Two Pianos...

UI Advise Spring Professional Development Day

Thursday, February 19, 2026 8:00am to 12:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)

Introduction to High Performance Computing using Argon (Zoom)

Thursday, February 19, 2026 10:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual

The workshop is a two-hour session that consists of two parts: an introduction to a High-Performance Computing (HPC) environment and hands-on training on the basic usage of the Argon cluster (access, configuration, job submission, and data transfer). It is geared towards users of HPC, including faculty, postdocs, and students, who are eager to learn about getting started with the Argon cluster and storage services for their computational research. No prior experience or knowledge of...

Spring 2026 IRB Office Hours

Thursday, February 19, 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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Hardin Open Workshops - ORCiD: Open Researcher and Contributor ID (Zoom)

Thursday, February 19, 2026 11:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual

What is ORCID? Why would you want one? This session will discuss ORCID, how researchers can benefit from having one, and how ORCID connects with other information systems. This will also be a hands-on workshop where everyone will have the chance to create their own ORCID and learn the most efficient ways to populate their profile with their publications.

PLEASE NOTE

Enrollment in HOW is open to all University of Iowa affiliates and residents of the state of Iowa. Advance registration is required...

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Reiterative Teaching Practices to Support Learning

Thursday, February 19, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual
Scaffolding new knowledge with previous course concepts is an important part of learning. Discuss strategies to help students recall, retain, and connect ideas across the semester with English PhD Candidate Sarah Frank.
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Neuroscience & Pharmacology Workshop - Yutong Wang and Pravda Quiñones-Labernik

Thursday, February 19, 2026 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Medical Education Research Facility

Effect of acute sleep deprivation on hippocampal activity and gene expression changes

Yutong Wang
Pharmacology Graduate Student
Dr. Ted Abel's Lab

Investigating Molecular Mechanisms of Behavioral Rescue Following Excess Neonatal Testosterone

Pravda Quiñones-Labernik
Pharmacology Graduate Student
Dr. Ted Abel's Lab

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Hardin Open Workshops: EMBASE (Zoom)

Thursday, February 19, 2026 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Virtual

EMBASE is a biomedical and pharmaceutical database containing bibliographic records with abstracts. Although there is overlap with records from PubMed, there are also many unique records. This hands-on session will show you how to conduct basic searches using EMBASE’s quick search box, how to conduct searches using EMTREE subject headings, and how to use subheadings for drug and disease topics.

PLEASE NOTE

Enrollment in HOW is open to all University of Iowa affiliates and residents of the state of...

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