The Graduate and Professional Student Government hosts a wide variety of events throughout the year! 

GPSG Meetings Fall 2025

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Legislative Meeting

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Legislative Meeting

Black Box Theater (360 IMU)
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Legislative Meeting

Black Box Theater (360 IMU)

GPSG Events

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Events Around Campus

Restoring the Sacred: A Native Youth and Healing Symposium promotional image

Restoring the Sacred: A Native Youth and Healing Symposium

Wednesday, September 17, 2025 (all day)
Drury Inn and Suites
Through sessions on intergenerational healing, culturally grounded interventions, and trauma-informed leadership, this two-day event focuses on what has been sacred all along: the strength, wisdom, and resilience of Native communities. Join us in a space of truth-telling, renewal, and collective power that emphasizes healing pathways rooted in tradition, heritage, and connection.Who should attend:• Students and professionals in behavioral, public, tribal/urban Indian, and community health• Pre-K...
Special Topics in Politics - Strategizing and Leading Campaigns & Political Movements promotional image

Special Topics in Politics - Strategizing and Leading Campaigns & Political Movements

Wednesday, September 17, 2025 5:30pm to 8:00pm
Schaeffer Hall
Introduction to the world of political campaigns and movement building. Learn the fundamentals of campaign roles, messaging, field and digital strategy, and mechanics of fundraising and GOTV. Whether exploring a career in politics or aiming to drive change from the ground up, this class will equip you with the tools and perspective to make an impact.
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Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory

Wednesday, September 17, 2025 7:30pm
The Englert
A singular, American songwriter continues her artistic journey with a new band in tow.
LivingWorks Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) promotional image

LivingWorks Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)

Thursday, September 18, 2025 8:30am to 4:30pm
Blank Honors Center
ASIST is a two-day interactive workshop in suicide first-aid. ASIST teaches participants to recognize when someone may have thoughts of suicide and work with them to create a plan that will support their immediate safety. As the world’s leading suicide intervention workshop, LivingWorks’ ASIST program is supported by numerous evaluations including independent and peer-reviewed studies.Results demonstrate that ASIST helps participants become more willing, ready, and able to intervene. Although...

Fall 2025 IRB Office Hours

Thursday, September 18, 2025 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. No appointment necessary. First come, first served.
Limited Submissions Policy Updates and Information Session promotional image

Limited Submissions Policy Updates and Information Session

Thursday, September 18, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual
Limited submission programs are competitive funding opportunities that restrict the number of proposals an institution may submit. At the University of Iowa (UI), institutional applicants for these programs are selected through an internal review process.Event InformationThe RDO is hosting a virtual information session on Thursday, Sept. 18 from 10 to 11 a.m. Join us virtually for an overview of the Limited Submissions process at the UI, which supports researchers pursuing funding opportunities...

REDCap Data Handling

Thursday, September 18, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual
This is the sixth and final step in the REDCap training series. In this training we won't use REDCap at all. Instead, we will cover ways to view and manage your exported REDCap data in Microsoft Excel and Sublime Text such as: Populating data from one Excel sheet to another with vlookup() Seeing specific data with column sorting and filtering Ensuring data is cohesive by creating tables Looking at how data relates to other data by creating pivot tables Transforming unusable data to a...
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar: Dr. Melissa Jurica promotional image

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar: Dr. Melissa Jurica

Thursday, September 18, 2025 10:30am to 11:20am
Medical Education Research Facility
This event is open to the public."Exploring intron recognition by U2 snRNP with spliceosome inhibitors"Melissa Jurica, PhDUniversity of California Santa CruzFaculty Host: Lori Wallrath, PhD

FGL Mentorship Picnic

Thursday, September 18, 2025 12:00pm to 2:00pm
Boyd Law Building
Join FGL for the annual mentorship picnic! Make sure you fill out the forms we emailed out to indicate interest in being a mentor or a mentee.

Christian Legal Society Weekly Meeting

Thursday, September 18, 2025 12:00pm to 12:59pm
Boyd Law Building
This is the Christian Legal Society Weekly Meeting!
Neuroscience & Pharmacology Faculty Seminar - Jon Resch, PhD and Snehajyoti (Jyoti) Chatterjee, PhD promotional image

Neuroscience & Pharmacology Faculty Seminar - Jon Resch, PhD and Snehajyoti (Jyoti) Chatterjee, PhD

Thursday, September 18, 2025 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Medical Education Research Facility
Salt hunger driven by hindbrain HSD2 neurons: Regulation by aldosterone and afferent controlJon Resch, PhDAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Neuroscience & PharmacologySpatial transcriptomic and epigenetic signature of the retrosplenial cortex during memory consolidationSnehajyoti (Jyoti) Chatterjee, PhDAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Neuroscience & Pharmacology

Mindfulness Writing Workshop

Thursday, September 18, 2025 12:45pm to 1:55pm
Boyd Law Building
Dive Into Mindfulness: A 3-Part Writing WorkshopRecharge, reflect, and reconnect with your law school journey in this exclusive 3-part Mindfulness Writing Workshop, curated by Sam, our embedded therapist, and Tania, your Academic Advisor. Using Life’s Ocean: Journal of a First-Year Law Student by Lola Marie Rococo and insights from The Mindful Law Student by Scott Rogers, this workshop blends reflection, research, and real-world law student experience.While designed with 1Ls in mind, carefully...
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Microsoft Teams: An Introduction

Thursday, September 18, 2025 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Virtual
This introductory course will give you a high-level overview of how to utilize Microsoft Teams and the tools within to collaborate and communicate with a work group, a project team, or any assortment of people. Topics covered include chat, creating a team, communicating in a team, meetings, and more. This course is designed for first-time users of Teams and those who would like to ensure they are getting the most out of this organizational tool. To schedule additional Microsoft Teams training...

Advising at Iowa Fall Kickoff and Awards Ceremony

Thursday, September 18, 2025 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)

SEES 7000 Colloquium: Dr. Dave Cwiertny (Civil and Environmental Engineering / IIHR - Hydroscience and Engineering)

Thursday, September 18, 2025 3:30pm
Visual Arts Building
Title: PFAS in Iowa: There is much work to be doneAbstract: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, commonly referred to as PFAS, are a family of several thousand chemicals made primarily of carbon and fluorine atoms that have been widely used in industry and commerce since at least the 1950s. Popularly referred to as "forever chemicals" because of their general resistance to degradation, PFAS chemicals pose a significant ecological and human health threat due to their toxicity and bioaccumulative...

Aircraft Under Adverse Weather: Aero-engine Icing Phenomenon

Thursday, September 18, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Seamans Center
Mechanical Engineering Graduate Seminar
ISE:5000 graduate seminar -- Dr. Bijaya Adhikari promotional image

ISE:5000 graduate seminar -- Dr. Bijaya Adhikari

Thursday, September 18, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Seamans Center
Join us in welcoming Bijaya Adhikari, professor within the Department of Computer Science at the University of Iowa, to our graduate seminar. Dr. Adhikari will present his seminar titled, “Approximation Algorithms and Machine Learning for Healthcare-Associated Infections Response,” on Thursday, Sept. 18, from 3:30 to 4:20 p.m. in 3505 SC.

Story Lab Workshop #1

Thursday, September 18, 2025 5:00pm to 8:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building
Pick ONE workshop, leave with skills, stories, and smiles.
Free CPR/AED, Red Watch Band Training promotional image

Free CPR/AED, Red Watch Band Training

Thursday, September 18, 2025 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Campus Recreation and Wellness Center
The Red Watch Band Program focuses on knowledge, skill, and confidence building regarding preventing death from alcohol overdose. Students are taught the knowledge and skills to "make the call," and using role plays, given opportunities to build confidence to intervene on behalf of another. All students who complete the training will receive CPR and alcohol bystander training, and will be better able to link the impact that alcohol has on the body. Students will also receive training on how to...
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Success, Not Excess

Thursday, September 18, 2025 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Bowman House
Success, Not Excess provides a small, safe and supportive space for UI students wanting to make or considering changes in their alcohol or other drug use. The group emphasizes success in academics, relationships, mental and physical health, and other goals through reducing alcohol and other drug use. Meetings are provided by the UI Collegiate Recovery Program. For more information, please visit our website.This is not a treatment group and will not satisfy legal or other disciplinary mandates...
Special Topics in Politics - Strategizing and Leading Campaigns & Political Movements promotional image

Special Topics in Politics - Strategizing and Leading Campaigns & Political Movements

Thursday, September 18, 2025 5:30pm to 8:00pm
Schaeffer Hall
Introduction to the world of political campaigns and movement building. Learn the fundamentals of campaign roles, messaging, field and digital strategy, and mechanics of fundraising and GOTV. Whether exploring a career in politics or aiming to drive change from the ground up, this class will equip you with the tools and perspective to make an impact.
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Tote'ally Awesome Painting

Thursday, September 18, 2025 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)
Tote bag painting with Brush & Barrell!

Iowa Law Alumni Reception - Washington, D.C.

Thursday, September 18, 2025 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Baker Donelson
College of Law Reception - Washington, D.C.
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Farmhouse/Whorehouse

Thursday, September 18, 2025 6:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
Looking back on a childhood spent in the shadow of the Chicken Ranch.
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