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

GPSG Meetings Fall 2026

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Legislative Meeting

Black Box Theater (360 IMU)
meetings

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

GPSG Ball 2026

The ticket request period has now closed. All attendees who RSVP’d will receive additional details from GPSG soon.

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Events Around Campus

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Readings from the Student Center: New Moon

Wednesday, September 9, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Adler Journalism and Mass Communication Building
Join us in the Student Center of the Adler Journalism building for readings from the most recent issue of the New Moon literary magazine.
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Equatio for Handwritten Math and Chemistry Accessibility

Wednesday, September 9, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Virtual
Handwriting notes and equations can be a powerful pedagogical tool. However, when designing courses with digital accessibility in mind, handwritten documents can cause real roadblocks. Equatio is a tool that can turn handwritten math and chemistry into screen-readable information as well as other helpful tools for learners and instructors
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Condensed Matter Seminar - Eudes Gomes da Silva; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Iowa

Wednesday, September 9, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)
Condensed Matter Seminar
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Tig Notaro

Wednesday, September 9, 2026 7:00pm
Hancher Auditorium

Part of Hancher's 2026-2027 Season
Presented by HANCHER AUDITORIUM and ENGLERT THEATRE

One of Rolling Stone’s 50 best comedians of all time rolls into Hancher.

Tig Notaro is an Emmy and Grammy nominated stand-up comedian, actor, writer, podcaster, and radio contributor, as well as a favorite on numerous talk shows, including The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Her special Tig Notaro: Hello Again premiered in March of 2024 on Amazon, garnering multiple Emmy...

Rise & Shine with Hawkeye Leadership

Thursday, September 10, 2026 7:30am to 9:00am
The Monroe
Start your day with Hawkeye pride and inspiration.

Career Services Office Kickoff

Thursday, September 10, 2026 8:30am to 9:30am
Boyd Law Building

Join the Career Services Office (CSO) to learn more about how we support you throughout your time at Iowa Law! Breakfast will be provided for attendees

REDCap Data Handling

Thursday, September 10, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This is the sixth and final step in the REDCap training series. In this training we won't use REDCap at all. Instead, we will cover ways to view and manage your exported REDCap data in Microsoft Excel and Sublime Text such as:

Populating data from one Excel sheet to another with vlookup()

Seeing specific data with column sorting and filtering

Ensuring data is cohesive by creating tables

Looking at how data relates to other data by creating pivot tables

Transforming unusable data to a usable format...

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Microsoft Teams: Working with Files

Thursday, September 10, 2026 10:30am to 11:30am
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...

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Maximizing Pivot to Find Funding and Collaborators (September 2026)

Thursday, September 10, 2026 10:30am to 11:20am
Schaeffer Hall

Do you want to maximize your time spent searching for funding opportunities or potential project collaborators? Join us to learn how Pivot can save you time and effort in identifying the right funding opportunities for your research lines as well as identifying collaborators with the relevant expertise.

Register here. The RDO will send a calendar invitation and room location details upon registration.

Clarence Tow Lecture Series in Economics: Guillaume Frechette

Thursday, September 10, 2026 10:45am to 12:00pm
Pomerantz Center

Guillaume Frechette is a Professor of Economics from New York University.

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The Great American Melting Pot Pop-Up

Thursday, September 10, 2026 11:00am to 1:01pm
University of Iowa Main Library

On Thursday, Sept. 10 from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. stop by Group Area D in the Main Library to see a selection of cookbooks from the Chef Louis Szathmáry Collection and celebrate 250 years of culinary history in America. Find out about landmark cookbooks, dish about your favorite recipes, and grab a treat!

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Science Thursdays Blood Drive

Thursday, September 10, 2026 11:00am to 3:00pm
Medical Education Research Facility
The DeGowin Blood Center is hosting a blood drive from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday, September 10th, 2026 at the MERF atrium. Help the University of Iowa climb the Abbott & Big Ten We Give Blood Drive leaderboard and received a special-edition t-shirt from Abbott, while supplies last!
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Peer Review Process and Journal Expectations

Thursday, September 10, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Seamans Center
Build your scholarly toolkit with this workshop on the peer review process
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Neuroscience and Pharmacology Faculty Seminar

Thursday, September 10, 2026 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Medical Education Research Facility

Risk Factors for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias

Snehajyoti Chatterjee, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Pharmacology
University of Iowa

Networking: What is it and why do I need it?

Thursday, September 10, 2026 12:30pm to 1:45pm
Boyd Law Building

Networking is a big word that Tami Diebel will break down into manageable insights into why networking is important for law students and lawyers. How you do it is as unique to you as you are unique to the world. Why you should embrace it will be explained in this session. Learn the ins and outs and reasons to make it a good habit and practice as you enter the legal world.

Outlaws Interest Meeting

Thursday, September 10, 2026 12:40pm to 1:45pm
Boyd Law Building

This meeting is to have people who are interested in learning more about what goes on in Outlaws!

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Engineering Career Trek to Schneider Electric

Thursday, September 10, 2026 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Schneider Electric
Career Trek to Schneider Electric
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Graduate Student Open House at Main Library

Thursday, September 10, 2026 2:00pm to 4:00pm
University of Iowa Main Library
Join us at the Main Library for a Graduate Student Open House

SEES:7000 Colloquium - Christopher Steven Marcum, Ph.D. (Federation of American Scientists) - "Federal Information Policy in a Time of Transformation"

Thursday, September 10, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Macbride Hall

SEES:7000 Colloquium - Thursday, 9/10/26, 3:30pm, 255 MacBride Hall

Christopher Steven Marcum, Senior Advisor for Federal Data Policy (Federation of American Scientists)

"Federal Information Policy in a Time of Transformation"

Federal information and data policy determines how government data and scientific knowledge are collected, managed, and shared with the public (or not, as the case may be). Grounded in constitutional principles like the Census Clause, these policies establish that information...

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SJMC New Majors Fair and Fall Picnic

Thursday, September 10, 2026 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Adler Journalism and Mass Communication Building

New SJMC Majors get a rundown of what it's like to be a journalism major, followed by a tour of Adler. An all you care to eat taco bar from Estela's will be served at 4 pm!

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ISE:5000 GRADUATE SEMINAR -- TZE NING HIEW

Thursday, September 10, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Seamans Center

Join us in welcoming Tze Ning Hiew, an assistant Professor at at the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy, to the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Graduate Seminar.

Dr. Hiew will present her seminar titled "Process-Structure-Property Relationships in Co-Precipitated Amorphous Solid Dispersions: A Hierarchical Particle Approach". This talk presents a hierarchical particle approach that deposits a secondary polymer onto particle surfaces during a high-shear co-precipitation...

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AI Discussion Boards

Thursday, September 10, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Virtual
Managing online discussion boards faces the new challenge of students potentially replacing their online interactions with AI-generated responses. Participants will explore new ways to engage and motivate their students and to dissuade them from using AI.
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Exhibit Opening Celebration for 'It’s Been Wonderful Knowing You: Wildlife Conservation and Advocacy Through the Lens of Jay N. “Ding” Darling'

Thursday, September 10, 2026 4:00pm to 5:30pm
University of Iowa Main Library

Enjoy refreshments, remarks from the curators, and an open house in recognition of the fall 2026 Main Library Gallery exhibition, It’s Been Wonderful Knowing You: Wildlife Conservation and Advocacy Through the Lens of Jay N. “Ding” Darling.

Event Schedule
4–5:30 p.m.: Reception and open house with curators Lindsay Moen and Collin Vandewalle
4:30 p.m.: Brief remarks in the Main Library Gallery
5:30 p.m.: Opening event ends
6 p.m.: Main Library Gallery closes

Admission to the gallery is always free...

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