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

Stay tuned for more information!

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Events Around Campus

Condensed Matter Seminar - Sagar Chowdhury, PhD; Department of Physics & Astronomy; University of Iowa promotional image

Condensed Matter Seminar - Sagar Chowdhury, PhD; Department of Physics & Astronomy; University of Iowa

Wednesday, February 4, 2026 4:30pm to 5:20pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)
Condensed Matter Seminar

Guest Artist: Ashley Hall-Tighe with Ana María Otamendi

Wednesday, February 4, 2026 5:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Guest Artist: Ashley Hall-Tighe with Ana María Otamendi

This concert is free and open to the public.

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Intro to Mindfulness Workshop for Students

Wednesday, February 4, 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

Guest Solo Recital: Asiya Korepanova, Piano

Wednesday, February 4, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Guest Solo Recital: Asiya Korepanova, Piano

This concert is free and open to the public.

Spring 2026 IRB Office Hours

Thursday, February 5, 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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Microsoft Teams: Working with Files

Thursday, February 5, 2026 2:00pm to 2:45pm
Virtual

This course will show you how to edit and share files in Teams chats, meetings, or channels. We will talk about best practices for Team file storage and organization as well as co-authoring files and how to access personal files view. We will discuss how Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive work together from a file storage perspective. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course. To schedule additional Microsoft Teams training for your department...

Legal Research Training: Research Strategies

Thursday, February 5, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Boyd Law Building

Join the Law Library to explore essential research techniques and tools that can help you excel in your upcoming projects. Mastering these skills will not only give you a head start but also enhance your understanding, efficiency, and confidence in conducting research.

This session is especially beneficial for students working on their first research project this spring.

Sign up here: https://uiowa.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3n54czhFxLH3iZg

A Cyber-Physical Platform for Aeroelastic System Characterization and its Application to Rigid Inverted Flags promotional image

A Cyber-Physical Platform for Aeroelastic System Characterization and its Application to Rigid Inverted Flags

Thursday, February 5, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Seamans Center

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Graduate Seminar

PRESENTATION: The study, optimization and data-driven modeling of aeroelastic systems require evaluating their dynamics for large parametric spaces. Obtaining comprehensive datasets of such systems is challenging as a result of the nonlinear and tightly coupled fluid and structural mechanics that govern their behavior. In this research, a cyber-physical platform is developed that enables fast evaluation of the two-way coupled fluid-structure...

SEES:7000 Colloquium - Candidate Interview

Thursday, February 5, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Visual Arts Building
SEES:7000
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Authentic Assignments

Thursday, February 5, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Virtual

Learn what platforms are available to enable students to create projects that showcase their learning beyond the classroom.

The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and services to optimize teaching and learning through learning sciences research, ICON, teaching and learning data, and advanced classroom and instructional technology. To learn more about the services we offer, please visit our website at teach.its.uiowa.edu.

Public Lecture: Post-border Poetics: North Korean Refugees and Politics of Narratives promotional image

Public Lecture: Post-border Poetics: North Korean Refugees and Politics of Narratives

Thursday, February 5, 2026 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Virtual
Dr. Eun Ah Cho, assistant professor of Korean language and culture in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Kansas, will examine how North Korean female refugees’ narratives against the established images and stereotypical stories that have shaped their representation.

Masterclass: Ashley Hall-Tighe

Thursday, February 5, 2026 5:00pm
Voxman Music Building

Masterclass: Ashley Hall-Tighe

This concert is free and open to the public.

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Success, Not Excess

Thursday, February 5, 2026 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...

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Women's basketball vs. Minnesota

Thursday, February 5, 2026 6:00pm
Carver-Hawkeye Arena
The Iowa women's basketball team hosts Minnesota.
Artist Talk & Performance with Alejandro Russo promotional image

Artist Talk & Performance with Alejandro Russo

Thursday, February 5, 2026 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Space Place Theater

Join us for a lecture and performance with Alejandro Russo, an Argentine-Spanish choreographer and the co-director of La Malagua dance company based in Lille, France. Russo’s work uniquely blends the disciplines of engineering, dance notation, and movement research. His work Entre-autre, created while in residence at an auto factory in the north of France, highlights the body in working atmospheres and explores the erasure and withdrawal of corporeal physicality in factory environments. Russo is...

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Faith on the Plate

Thursday, February 5, 2026 6:00pm
Phillips Hall
Explore the intersection of religion and cuisine, guided by Christina Ward's book "Holy Food"
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Jazz at the Stanley

Thursday, February 5, 2026 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Stanley Museum of Art

Experience an evening of art and music at the Stanley Museum of Art with a jazz ensemble performance featuring the Ben Banta Trio & Mathuin Smith Trio. Explore the galleries before or after the performance as the museum will remain open late till 8 p.m. This program is in collaboration with SCOPE and is free for all.

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Gallery Talk | Abstract Patterns

Friday, February 6, 2026 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Stanley Museum of Art

Join us for a Gallery Talk that offers an engaging, hands-on exploration of artworks that use repetition to spark emotion, movement, and meaning.

Visitors will start with a tour of the works on view in the Visual Lab led by Isabel Cazares, followed by close-looking exercises that will deepen their understanding of the works on display.

After the tour, enjoy a creative session inspired by the patterns using colored pencils and paper. Participants will experiment with pattern making to translate...

Don't Knock It Til You Try It: Creating Writing Rituals to Help Get you Started

Friday, February 6, 2026 12:45pm to 1:30pm
Boyd Law Building

How to Avoid Procrastination in Your Writing Process - Writing Center Workshop with Prof. Dawn Anderson

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Friday Crafternoons

Friday, February 6, 2026 1:00pm to 3:30pm
Stanley Museum of Art

Need a break at the end of the week? Swing by the Stanley on Friday afternoons for Crafternoons. Bring whatever low-mess craft you're currently working on (a sketchbook, knitting, embroidery, coloring books, origami — whatever you're into!) or just show up and use some of the various supplies we'll have on hand. No experience required! Light snacks provided. Stay for five minutes or hang out for a while, it's up to you.

Environmental Engineering and Science Graduate Seminar

Friday, February 6, 2026 1:30pm to 2:20pm
Seamans Center

Hans-Joachim Lehmler, Associate Dean for Research, Director, Professor, Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Iowa, will be presenting, A Persistent Problem: PCB Exposure and Adverse Health Effects.

Publishing Talk with n+1 Editors Lisa Borst and Mark Krotov promotional image

Publishing Talk with n+1 Editors Lisa Borst and Mark Krotov

Friday, February 6, 2026 3:00pm
English-Philosophy Building
n+1 Editors Lisa Borst and Mark Krotov are on campus for a publishing talk
Biology Seminar/Barbara Stay Alumnus Seminar featuring UI Alumnus Atulya Iyengar promotional image

Biology Seminar/Barbara Stay Alumnus Seminar featuring UI Alumnus Atulya Iyengar

Friday, February 6, 2026 3:30pm
Biology Building East
The Department of Biology’s inaugural Barbara Stay Alumnus Seminar will be held on Friday, February 6, featuring UI alumnus Atulya Iyengar, as the speaker. His seminar will be held at 3:30pm in 101 BBE.

A Data-Driven Framework for Flood Mitigation Using Transformers and Reinforcement Learning

Friday, February 6, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall

Speaker: Shaoping Xiao, Department of Mechanical Engineering

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