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

GPSG Meetings Fall 2025

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GPSG Events

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Events Around Campus

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Boost Skills with LinkedIn Learning

Thursday, November 6, 2025 1:00pm to 1:30pm
Virtual

LinkedIn Learning is an online training library that provides access to thousands of courses. This session will discuss how to create a learning plan, how to use AI coaching and feedback, as well as certifications that can be obtained for free on the platform.

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First-Gen Graduate Student Panel

Thursday, November 6, 2025 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)
Graduate student panel for First-Generation College Celebration Week
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LinkedIn Lab: Build your Professional Brand

Thursday, November 6, 2025 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Seamans Center
LinkedIn Lab
ISE 5000 GRADUATE SEMINAR --DR. YULIANG XIE promotional image

ISE 5000 GRADUATE SEMINAR --DR. YULIANG XIE

Thursday, November 6, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Seamans Center

Join us in welcoming Yuliang Xie, professor within the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Iowa, to the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Graduate Seminar. Dr. Xie will present his seminar titled "Engineered airway explant to study pulmonary disease and therapy."

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - M. Hasan Barbhuiya, Ph.D.; Clemson University promotional image

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - M. Hasan Barbhuiya, Ph.D.; Clemson University

Thursday, November 6, 2025 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Van Allen Hall
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium

Development and Evaluation of Biomimetic Methods for Characterizing Ankle-Foot Orthosis Properties

Thursday, November 6, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Seamans Center

Mechanical Engineering Graduate Seminar

PRESENTATION: Ankle-foot orthoses (AFOs) are assistive devices used by people with neuromuscular conditions that affect gait. AFO stiffness is the resistance to sagittal-plane, rotational motion around the ankle joint. Individually optimizing AFO stiffness improves gait performance, but it is not typically quantified in clinical practice. A major barrier to the evaluation and development of AFOs is the absence of AFO testing standards, resulting in...

SEES 7000 Colloquium: Dr. Brad Cramer & Dr. Heather Sander (SEES)

Thursday, November 6, 2025 3:30pm
Visual Arts Building

Speaker: Brad Cramer

Title: Nutrients, Eutrophy, Anoxia & Extinction | An Ancient Example of a Green Tide Event

Abstract: The Ireviken Biogeochemical Event was a Silurian Oceanic Anoxic Event that dramatically altered major- and trace-element nutrient cycling in the oceans and led to a biotic crisis known as the Ireviken Extinction Event. This event, first identified in the fossil record of conodonts, is also identified by a major perturbation to the global carbon cycle with carbonate carbon...

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Capture Your Research Awards Ceremony and Reception

Thursday, November 6, 2025 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Old Capitol Museum

Capture Your Research is an image competition where students, faculty, and staff can submit one image that captures the essence of their research. They will be judged on originality/creativity, the appeal of the image, relationship between the image and their research, and the clarity of the written description.

Sponsors: University of Iowa Libraries, Hanson Center for Communication, NEXUS | Artineers, and Office of Undergraduate Research

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Free CPR/AED, Red Watch Band Training

Thursday, November 6, 2025 4:00pm to 6:00pm
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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Blind Date with a Book

Thursday, November 6, 2025 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Poindexter Coffee

Discover your next read with us on Nov. 6 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Poindexter with Blind Date with a Book. First 40 attendees will get a free coffee/drink on us!* Cozy up with a book and a coffee at this literary event.

*Free coffee/drink tickets will be given on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Registration of a student organization does not imply University of Iowa endorsement of its views, activities, or content. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in a student organization...

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Tippie Hawkeyes Night Out – Quad Cities

Thursday, November 6, 2025 5:00pm to 7:30pm
Mississippi River Distilling Company Downtown Lounge

Calling all Tippie alumni and Graduate Program students in the Quad Cities area! Join us for a special evening of networking on Thursday, November 6, at Mississippi River Distilling Company in downtown Davenport.

Whether you’re looking to catch up with old friends, make new professional connections, or simply unwind with fellow Hawkeyes, this is the perfect opportunity. You’ll also get a chance to connect with Associate Dean Erin Nelson and catch up on all the exciting things happening with...

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Restaging Trisha Brown & Merce Cunningham in Collaboration with Robert Rauschenberg

Thursday, November 6, 2025 6:00pm
Stanley Museum of Art

Part of Hancher's 53rd season

Presented in collaboration with the Stanley Museum of Art

A free conversation reflecting on the restaging of historic collaborations between visual artist Robert Rauschenberg and choreographers Trisha Brown and Merce Cunningham — exploring the creative process, archival challenges, and the enduring influence of these groundbreaking works. The conversation will feature Carolyn Lucas (associate artistic director, Trisha Brown Dance Company), Andrea Weber (associate...

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Men's wrestling vs. Bellarmine

Thursday, November 6, 2025 6:00pm
Carver-Hawkeye Arena
The Iowa men's wrestling team hosts Bellarmine.
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Midterm Reset @ the Museum

Thursday, November 6, 2025 7:00pm to 8:00pm
University of Iowa Museum of Natural History

Midterms are upon us, and we’re practicing the art of the pause here at the Museum of Natural History. Join us for one or all three upcoming events designed to help you unwind and recharge through origami, movement, and mindfulness at the museum.

Origami in Bird Hall
Step into the calm of Bird Hall for an origami break led by Mary Alice, our Visitor Services Coordinator. Fold peaceful paper birds, quiet your mind, and take a moment to breathe. No experience needed — just show up and recharge.
Wedne...

Iowa Steel Bands Fall Concert

Thursday, November 6, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Iowa Percussion Fall Concert

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/952021

This concert is free and open to the public.

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Annual First-Generation College Celebration Week

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!
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Write Now Hawkeye Haiku Contest

Friday, November 7 to Friday, November 14, 2025 (all day)
Virtual
Submit your milestone haiku by Nov. 14!
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DeLTA Center Roundtable Discussion: Jeff Cockburn

Friday, November 7, 2025 9:00am to 10:20am
Lindquist Center

The DeLTA Center Roundtable Discussion is an event that expands the interdisciplinary research community by promoting reciprocal interactions between basic and applied researchers. These events showcase presenters from a wide variety of academic disciplines and an open discussion about implications of the presenter's ideas across fields of study and research.

This roundtable event features Dr. Jeff Cockburn. Jeff is an Assistant Professor the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the...

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College of Pharmacy P4 Career Prep Event - Day 2

Friday, November 7, 2025 9:30am to 12:15pm
College of Pharmacy Building

The College of Pharmacy will host a P4 Career Prep Event, with opportunities for fourth-year pharmacy students to participate in a CV review, mock interviews, networking, and more! 

Day 2 topics include:

Salary and benefits negotiation

Paying off loans

NAPLEX prep tips

2025 CS Prospective Graduate Student Visit Day - Morning Sessions promotional image

2025 CS Prospective Graduate Student Visit Day - Morning Sessions

Friday, November 7, 2025 9:30am to 1:25pm
Iowa Advanced Technology Laboratories
The Computer Science (CS) department welcomes prospective students interested in our graduate programs to our annual Prospective Student Visit Day and Graduate Research Symposium
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Sip and String: Museum of Natural History

Friday, November 7, 2025 10:00am to 1:00pm
University of Iowa Museum of Natural History
Celebrate First-Gen Week with a cozy creative break!
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Swing Fore Stead

Friday, November 7, 2025 10:00am to 3:00pm
PinSeekers
Grab your clubs — and your competitive spirit — and join us for a fun-filled day benefiting University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital.
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Pecha Kucha - Glocal at Iowa

Friday, November 7, 2025 11:30am to 12:30pm
Iowa City Public Library
Using the fast-paced and visually engaging Pecha Kucha format—meaning “chit-chat” in Japanese—five student speakers will share their most meaningful “glocal” experiences in six-minute presentations composed of 20 timed slides.
Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Program Thesis Defense Seminar: Angela Richardson promotional image

Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Program Thesis Defense Seminar: Angela Richardson

Friday, November 7, 2025 12:00pm
Psychological and Brain Sciences Building

Angela Richardson is a PhD candidate in the Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Graduate Program. Her research has been conducted in Dr. Mark Blumberg's laboratory.

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.

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