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

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

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Events Around Campus

The Iowa Chase Regatta promotional image

The Iowa Chase Regatta

Saturday, November 1, 2025 (all day)
Lower City Park
The Iowa Chase Regatta returns Saturday, November 1, 2025 -- a fall rowing tradition on the Iowa River in the heart of Iowa City.
Camille Thurman with the Darrell Green Quartet promotional image

Camille Thurman with the Darrell Green Quartet

Saturday, November 1, 2025 7:00pm
Hancher Auditorium
A confluence of a powerhouse saxophonist and a top-shelf quartet honors the past and heralds the future.
CAB's Haunted House promotional image

CAB's Haunted House

Saturday, November 1, 2025 7:00pm to 11:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)
Come check out our annual Haunted House for all the scares!
"Only a Mask" a new musical by Blake Cordell promotional image

"Only a Mask" a new musical by Blake Cordell

Saturday, November 1, 2025 7:30pm
The James Theatre
A workshop of a new musical about identity and superpowers written by a music composition graduate student as part of thesis research

Martin Schmeding, Guest Organ Recital

Saturday, November 1, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Martin Schmeding, Guest Organ Recital

This event is free and open to the public.

View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/952017

Camille Thurman with the Darrell Green Quartet promotional image

Camille Thurman with the Darrell Green Quartet

Saturday, November 1, 2025 9:00pm
Hancher Auditorium
A confluence of a powerhouse saxophonist and a top-shelf quartet honors the past and heralds the future.
Trisha Brown's "Floor of the Forest" promotional image

Trisha Brown's "Floor of the Forest"

Sunday, November 2, 2025 12:00pm to 2:59pm
Visual Arts Building
First performed in 1970 in downtown New York City by Trisha Brown and Carmen Beuchat, Floor of the Forest is danced upon a sculptural steel frame holding up a web of ropes that have been threaded with colorful used clothing.
Piano Sundays at Old Capitol: Doreen Lee and UI Collaborative Pianists promotional image

Piano Sundays at Old Capitol: Doreen Lee and UI Collaborative Pianists

Sunday, November 2, 2025 1:30pm
Old Capitol Museum

Piano Sundays at Old Capitol

This event will feature Doreen Lee and UI Collaborative Pianists

Upcoming Piano Sundays at Old Capitol:
March 1, 2026 | Ksenia Nosikova and Studio
May 3, 2026 | Alan Huckleberry and Studio

This concert is free and open to the public.

Women's wrestling All Iowa Dual promotional image

Women's wrestling All Iowa Dual

Sunday, November 2, 2025 2:00pm
Carver-Hawkeye Arena
The Iowa women's wrestling team hosts the All Iowa Dual.
Faculty Chamber Concert #2 promotional image

Faculty Chamber Concert #2

Sunday, November 2, 2025 3:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Faculty Chamber Concert

Suite for Violin and Cello Reinhold Glière
Cello Sonata for Two Cellos Jean-Baptiste Barrière
Piano Quintet in C Minor Ralph Vaughan Williams

Jamie Clark, cello

Alan Huckleberry, piano

Volkan Orhon, double bass

Rebecca Vieker, viola (Guest)

Katie Wolfe, violin

This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.

View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/952018

This concert is free and open to the public.

Piano Studio Recital

Sunday, November 2, 2025 5:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Piano Studio Recital

View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/952019

This concert is free and open to the public.

Joint Recital: Charlie Muehlberger, Grace Walker, Cali Weber: horn promotional image

Joint Recital: Charlie Muehlberger, Grace Walker, Cali Weber: horn

Sunday, November 2, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Joint Recital: Charlie Muehlberger, Grace Walker, Cali Weber: horn

Charlie Muehlberger, horn
Grace Walker, horn
Cali Weber, horn

This event is free and open to the public.

Annual First-Generation College Celebration Week promotional image

Annual First-Generation College Celebration Week

Monday, November 3 to Friday, November 7, 2025 (all day)
Various Locations
Held each year on November 8th, the National First-Generation College Celebration encourages colleges and universities across the country to celebrate the successes of the institution's first-generation students. At the University of Iowa, one day isn't enough - we celebrate all week long!

Clarence TOW Seminar Series in Economics: Jeongbin Kim

Monday, November 3, 2025 11:30am to 12:45pm
Pomerantz Center

Jeongbin Kim is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Florida State University.

Trisha Brown's "Floor of the Forest" promotional image

Trisha Brown's "Floor of the Forest"

Monday, November 3, 2025 12:00pm to 2:59pm
Visual Arts Building
First performed in 1970 in downtown New York City by Trisha Brown and Carmen Beuchat, Floor of the Forest is danced upon a sculptural steel frame holding up a web of ropes that have been threaded with colorful used clothing.
Finding Common Ground: Bypassing Polarization on Energy Issues Fireside Chat promotional image

Finding Common Ground: Bypassing Polarization on Energy Issues Fireside Chat

Monday, November 3, 2025 12:10pm to 1:10pm
Virtual

The Private Sector and the Planet: Environmental Governance Across Industries series presents:

Watch Party – Finding Common Ground: Energy and Bipartisanship
Join us for a live watch party of “Finding Common Ground: Bypassing Polarization on Energy Issues,” featuring former Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen, a nationally recognized leader in clean energy and pragmatic policymaking. Hosted by Vanderbilt Law School, this conversation explores how collaboration can drive real progress on...

Clinical Science Rounds: Joanna Arch promotional image

Clinical Science Rounds: Joanna Arch

Monday, November 3, 2025 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Psychological and Brain Sciences Building

ACT and Exposure Across Contexts: Insights from 20 Years of Anxiety and Cancer Research

Abstract: This talk will highlight key findings, lessons, and emerging directions from two decades of research on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and exposure therapy across diverse populations—ranging from adults with anxiety disorders to individuals coping with cancer. I will begin by summarizing our early work integrating exposure-based ACT for anxiety disorders, then turn to our ongoing efforts...

Global Perspectives: Constitutional Courts in an Age of Democratic Backsliding promotional image

Global Perspectives: Constitutional Courts in an Age of Democratic Backsliding

Monday, November 3, 2025 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Boyd Law Building
Global Perspectives: Constitutional Courts in an Age of Democratic Backsliding
2025 Neuroscience Research Day Keynote Speaker: Gregory Corder, PhD promotional image

2025 Neuroscience Research Day Keynote Speaker: Gregory Corder, PhD

Monday, November 3, 2025 1:00pm
Medical Education Research Facility

Keynote Speaker Announcement: Dr. Gregory F. Corder
2025 Neuroscience Research Day – Monday, November 3, 2025

The Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience is pleased to announce Dr. Gregory F. Corder, Ph.D., as the keynote speaker for the 2025 Neuroscience Research Day. Dr. Corder is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Corder’s keynote presentation, titled “Pain, Poppies, Placebos, and...

Department of Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series

Monday, November 3, 2025 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Bowen Science Building
Biology Graduate Student Seminar: "Comparison of Growth Strategy in Response to Phosphate Limitation in Diverse Yeasts" promotional image

Biology Graduate Student Seminar: "Comparison of Growth Strategy in Response to Phosphate Limitation in Diverse Yeasts"

Monday, November 3, 2025 3:30pm
Biology Building East
Emily O'Brien, an MS student in the Integrated Biology (iBio) Graduate Program and a member of the Bin Z. HE's Lab, will be giving a seminar on Monday, Nov. 3, at 3:30 p.m. in 101 BBE.
Biology Graduate Student Seminar: "RNAcross: Interactive Cross-Species Timecourse RNA-Seq Analysis" promotional image

Biology Graduate Student Seminar: "RNAcross: Interactive Cross-Species Timecourse RNA-Seq Analysis"

Monday, November 3, 2025 3:30pm
Biology Building East
Hubert Kicinski, an MS student in the Integrated Biology (iBio) Graduate Program and a member of the Bin Z. HE's Lab, will be giving a seminar on Monday, Nov. 3, at 3:30 p.m. in 101 BBE.
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - James Juno, Ph.D.; Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory promotional image

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - James Juno, Ph.D.; Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Monday, November 3, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Van Allen Hall
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
Intro to Mindfulness Workshop for Students promotional image

Intro to Mindfulness Workshop for Students

Monday, November 3, 2025 6:00pm to 7:15pm
Adler Journalism and Mass Communication Building
Sign up for a free, 4-week workshop to learn mindfulness meditation in community with other students
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