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

GPSG Meetings Fall 2025

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Black Box Theater (360 IMU)
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Legislative Meeting

Black Box Theater (360 IMU)
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Legislative Meeting

Black Box Theater (360 IMU)
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Legislative Meeting

Black Box Theater (360 IMU)

GPSG Events

There are no upcoming GPSG events at this time. 

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Events Around Campus

Center for New Music Ensemble Concert II

Sunday, December 7, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Center for New Music | Concert II

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.

View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/952051

This concert is free and open to the public.

AI Prompting (Advanced): Elevating your Craft

Monday, December 8, 2025 9:00am to 10:00am
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.

Women In Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour

Monday, December 8, 2025 11:00am to 12:00pm
Carver Biomedical Research Building

Join us for the Women in Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour. It is the monthly coffee hour on the second Monday of the month from 11 a.m. to noon in 1289 CBRB. Enjoy coffee, pastries and contribute to the discussion!

This is open to ALL — students, staff, postdocs, and faculty interested in promoting women in science.

Speakers change monthly. Contact: jessica-tucker@uiowa.edu for details.

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Entomology Lab Insect Collection Showcase

Monday, December 8, 2025 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Biology Building East
The students in the Entomology Lab course will be displaying their insect collections on Monday, December 8 from 1:30-2:30pm in the BBE Lobby. All are invited.
Biology Graduate Student Seminar (Hamza Mohammed): "Sequence determinants of DNA curvature" promotional image

Biology Graduate Student Seminar (Hamza Mohammed): "Sequence determinants of DNA curvature"

Monday, December 8, 2025 3:30pm
Biology Building East
Hamza Mohammed, a Ph.D. student in the Integrated Biology (iBio) Graduate Program, will be giving a seminar on Monday, Dec. 8, at 3:30 p.m. in Kollros Auditorium (Room 101, Biology Building East).
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Nuclear & Particle Physics Seminar - Zane Ozzello & Blake Senseman

Monday, December 8, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Van Allen Hall
Nuclear & Particle Physics Seminar
Biology Graduate Student Seminar (Rebekah Yarvis/Cheng Lab): "The evolution of the transition to reproduction from ferns to flowering plants" promotional image

Biology Graduate Student Seminar (Rebekah Yarvis/Cheng Lab): "The evolution of the transition to reproduction from ferns to flowering plants"

Monday, December 8, 2025 3:30pm
Biology Building East
Rebekah Yarvis, a Ph.D. student in the Integrated Biology (iBio) Graduate Program and a member of the Cheng Lab, will be giving a seminar on Monday, Dec. 8, at 3:30 p.m. in Kollros Auditorium (Room 101, Biology Building East).
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Neuroscience & Pharmacology Seminar - Michelle Mazei-Robison, PhD

Monday, December 8, 2025 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Medical Education Research Facility

Novel molecular mechanisms induced in the ventral tegmental area by drugs of abuse

Michelle S. Mazei-Robison, PhD
Professor and Associate Chair
Department of Physiology
Michigan State University

Playwrights Workshop Reading: Sorority Sex Kittens 3: Revenge of the Femboys promotional image

Playwrights Workshop Reading: Sorority Sex Kittens 3: Revenge of the Femboys

Monday, December 8, 2025 5:30pm
Theatre Building

By Adrian Enzastiga

An aspiring film director finds a new way to make next month’s rent.

Please be advised this play contains homophobic slurs, consensual non-consent, vivid pornographic descriptions, and a lot of sexual content.

Part of Theatre Arts' Reading Series

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

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Jazz Repertory Ensemble

Monday, December 8, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Jazz Repertory Ensemble

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

View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/952052

This concert is free and open to the public.

Student Recital: Hugo Kaut, violin

Monday, December 8, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Optional Recital: Hugo Kaut, violin

Hugo Kaut, violin
Danyun Zhao, piano
Katie Forbush, cello

This concert is free and open to the public.

Senior Recital: Tatum Calderwood, Mezzo-Soprano

Monday, December 8, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Senior Recital: Tatum Calderwood, Mezzo-Soprano

This concert is free and open to the public.

Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Seminar, Peter Adams, PhD promotional image

Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Seminar, Peter Adams, PhD

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 9:30am to 10:30am
Bowen Science Building

Design Your Own Copilot Agent: Custom AI for Everyday Tasks

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual
Hands-on with Microsoft Copilot Agents: create, customize, and collaborate using everyday AI.

REDCap Basic Training

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This is the first step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will build a new REDCap project from scratch and cover basic features such as:

• Building forms with proper field types and validation
• Assigning user permissions
• Project backup and overview with data dictionary, codebook, pdf, and xml
• Ensuring your project works properly by testing with real world application
• Making mid-study modifications safely after having started data collection in production
• Creating...

Neuroscience and Pharmacology Seminar - Habibeh Khoshbouei, PhD promotional image

Neuroscience and Pharmacology Seminar - Habibeh Khoshbouei, PhD

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 10:30am to 11:30am
Medical Education Research Facility

Midbrain dopamine neuronal activity modulates splenic immunity via a brain–body circuit

Habibeh Khoshbouei, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair of Research
Department of Neuroscience
University of Florida College of Medicine

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Microsoft Teams: Structure and Manage Your Team (Best Practices)

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 11:00am to 11:45am
Virtual

This course is designed for anyone who creates a team or has been given the team owner role in an existing team. Team owners have access to settings and capabilities that members do not see. This training will discuss how best to create a team, choose settings based upon your needs, and manage the team throughout its existence. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course. To schedule additional Microsoft Teams training for your department, team...

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Maker Break: Cookies and Coasters

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 11:30am to 1:00pm
Seamans Center

Slow down before finals and make some art on a coaster using a cool chemical reaction or on a cookie using frosting. No registration is required for this drop-by event.

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College of Pharmacy PSET Seminar Series: Matthew Caporizzo, PhD

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 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: 

Matthew Caporizzo, PhD
Assistant Professor
Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
The University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont

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

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Mug Painting

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)

Get your hot cocoa mugs ready with Mug Painting December 9th, 1-3 pm in the Divine Nine Room at the IMU. Come paint your very own mug with us as gift for a loved one or a new hot cocoa mug for the season.☕

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Operator Theory Seminar - Andrew Barsky, Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 1:30pm to 2:20pm
Van Allen Hall
Operator Theory Seminar

TriNetX Basic Training

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Virtual

This training will provide an in-depth look at TriNetX and show you how to use the tool. We will go through building a study, searching for a specific population, and finally what information you can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research.

After this training you will have a thorough understanding of how to use TriNetX and what the process is to get data extracted for research studies.

Register by clicking the virtual event link...

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Mathematical Physics Seminar - Salvatore Quaid

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 2:30pm to 3:20pm
Van Allen Hall
Mathematical Physics Seminar

Seminar Series: Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 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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