We learned that one of the toughest parts about the start of the semester for most students is none other than homesickness. Show your loved ones you're thinking about them by sending a University of Iowa Museum of Natural History or Old Capitol Museum postcard. We've got all the materials and we'll take care of the postage and mailing.Find us on the Pentacrest Monday, Sept. 89:30–11:30 a.m. Stay connected, Hawkeyes!

Need some inspiration to keep you motivated for the fall semester? Help envision your best self through vision board making, Sept. 8 from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Hawkeye Room at the IMU. Hope to see you there getting crafty!

With special guest Lindsey KraftPart of Hancher's 53rd seasonAn artist whose career has unfolded in a myriad of genre-bending ways sits down at the piano.Widely regarded as a major music influencer of his generation, Ben Folds is an Emmy-nominated singer-songwriter-composer who has created an enormous body of work. His catalog includes pop albums with Ben Folds Five, multiple solo albums, and numerous collaborative records. As the tour title suggests, this time out he’s getting down to basics...

Take your prompting skills to the next level in this advanced AI prompting session. 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.Participants will explore advanced prompting strategies including multi-step task execution, structured output formatting, and iterative refinement through practical application and project development. The...

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...

Insights into hippocampal function from studies on synaptic plasticity in area CA2Serena M. Dudek, PhDSenior Investigator and Acting Chief, Neurobiology LaboratoryNational Institute of Environmental Health, NIH

This course will show you how to utilize applications in a channel, meeting, or chat to extend the capabilities of your team. We will talk about using personal applications to help streamline and organize your work within Microsoft Teams. The apps covered in this course include OneNote, Forms, Planner, and Viva Learning. 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, or...

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 NOTEClass will be taught via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be emailed the Zoom link 30 minutes before the...

Brittany Todd is a PhD candidate in the Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Graduate Program, as well as a student in the Medical Scientist Training Program. Her research has been with Drs. Alexander Bassuk and Elizabeth Newell's laboratories.If you are unable to attend in person, please consider showing your support and attending via Zoom. Please email britt-hokanson@uiowa.edu for the zoom link.

Faculty Research Assistant Training for 2025-2026

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 NOTEClass will be taught via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be emailed...

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...

Wavelet methods in quantum field theoryWayne Polyzou, PhDThis is a talk that I will present (by zoom) at JLAB later this month.I will discuss a representation of local quantum fields using Daubechies' wavelets, which are fractal-valued functions that are useful for data compression (related functions are used in jpeg photographs, the film industry, and the FBI fingerprint database). Basis functions are generated from the fixed point of a renormalization group equation by scale transformations...

Navigating a Cosmic Maelstrom with Sub-Parsec Observations of Cool Gas Around Our Central Supermassive Black HoleMark Gorski, PhDHiding behind the dust lanes of the Milky Way lives our closest supermassive black hole (Sagittarius A* or Sgr A*). It is hailed as both our best hope to study black hole physics, accretion, feeding, and feedback, and as too complex a region to completely understand. The absence of any signatures of an active outflow and the spin orientation of the black hole are some...

We invite you to attend a welcome reception for David Schwebel, the university's new vice president for research, on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025. The event will take place from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the Levitt Center for University Advancement Rotunda, located at One West Park Road in Iowa City, Iowa. Please note that brief remarks will be delivered at 5:15 p.m.

This stress management workshop will be held on all five Tuesday evenings of September. The workshop provides law students with an opportunity to explore the most common mental health challenges that law students face. The rationale for this exploration is simple: engaging with the content and procedure of legal work can take a toll on one’s ability to maintain their mental health; confronting this reality in law school allows future lawyers to equip themselves with the awareness, coping...

This is the second step in the REDCap training series. In this training we will cover basic and intermediate features such as: • Outputting data automatically with calculated fields • Collecting the same data points multiple times with longitudinal and one-to-many data collection • Standardizing your data to industry standards with ontologies and the REDCap Instrument Library • Ways to customize your data entry experience with action tags • Viewing data with reports, dashboards, and charts...

Students! Each week this semester we're setting out cushions, free study supplies, and snacks in the Museum of Natural History for you to take a break and fit in some study time. Take the stairs or the elevator in Macbride Hall to the third floor and join us on the north side in Bird Hall.The best way to stay ahead and meet your goals this semester is to be intentional about study time. Slowing down, spending time in creative, calm spaces, finding others who dedicate time to their work (remember...

The College of Pharmacy will host a second workshop for PGY1 residents of the Pharmacy Educator Preparatory Program for Residents and Fellows (PEPPR) Teaching Certificate Program.

Hispanic Latino Law Student Association First-General Board Meeting.

Steve Tonsfeldt, Partner at Cooley LLP in Palo Alto, CA, will join us at Boyd Law Building to answer your questions about Big Law! Please RSVP if you plan to attend so we may order an appropriate amount of food.