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

GPSG Meetings Fall 2025

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Events Around Campus

DeLTA Center Colloquium: Kaya de Barbaro promotional image

DeLTA Center Colloquium: Kaya de Barbaro

Thursday, November 13, 2025 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Gilmore Hall

Dr. de Barbaro is an Associate Professor of Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin.

Interests: behavior, social interactions, development, dynamical systems theory, mobile sensing, machine learning, and mental health

Presentation title and abstract to come.

Kaya’s Bio Page: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/psychology/faculty/kd26254

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ISE 5000 GRADUATE SEMINAR --DR. DANIEL SEWELL

Thursday, November 13, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Seamans Center

Join us in welcoming Daniel Sewell, professor within the Department of Biostatistics of the College of Public Health at the University of Iowa, to the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Graduate Seminar. Dr. Sewell will present his seminar titled "From Data to Decisions: How to leverage the networks in which we are embedded to improve health outcomes."

Commitment to Internationalization Lecture: Iowa alumna Karri Goeldner Byrne to discuss private sector’s role in global humanitarian response promotional image

Commitment to Internationalization Lecture: Iowa alumna Karri Goeldner Byrne to discuss private sector’s role in global humanitarian response

Thursday, November 13, 2025 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Old Capitol Museum
University of Iowa (UI) alumna Karri Goeldner Byrne (BA communication theory ‘92) will deliver the 2025 Commitment to Internationalization Lecture, Navigating the Unpredictable: The Private Sector as Partners in Humanitarian Response.
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Night at the Museum: Chill & Create

Thursday, November 13, 2025 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Stanley Museum of Art

Join us for our next installment of Night at the Museum, a series of monthly events for UI students that occurs on Thursday nights when the museum is open late.

This month, our session is aimed at helping students destress around midterms by making and viewing art. To do this, we're teaming up with Dana Keeton, a local artist, art therapist and mental health counselor.

All night in the lobby, we'll have snacks and art materials provided for creative mask making. Dana will take interested students...

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Native Policy Lab Open House

Thursday, November 13, 2025 5:00pm to 7:30pm
The Green House
Learn more about Native Policy Lab projects!
Public Lecture: Entangled Ecologies: Memory, Place, and the Camellia Forests of Jeju promotional image

Public Lecture: Entangled Ecologies: Memory, Place, and the Camellia Forests of Jeju

Thursday, November 13, 2025 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Virtual
Drawing on ethnographic research with Jeju villagers, conservationists, and environmental activists, Dr. Jeongsu Shin, LB Korean Studies postdoctoral associate in the East Asia Program at Cornell University, will explore how memory, ecology, and place intertwine in Jeju’s Giving Forest.
WATER: The Current of Life - Investigate Midwest Storytelling Event promotional image

WATER: The Current of Life - Investigate Midwest Storytelling Event

Thursday, November 13, 2025 5:30pm to 8:30pm
Trumpet Blossom Cafe

You're invited to join us on the evening of Thursday November 13th, at Trumpet Blossom Cafe in Iowa City. Doors open at 5:30, program starts at 6:20. Investigate Midwest will bring together a diverse group of storytellers to discuss water and its impacts on their lives. Through an evening of storytelling, interactive engagement, and a silent auction benefiting Investigate Midwest's investigative journalism and educational initiatives, WATER: The Current of Life seeks to create a space where...

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Success, Not Excess

Thursday, November 13, 2025 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...

College of Law Alumni Reception in Cedar Rapids

Thursday, November 13, 2025 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Shuttleworth & Ingersoll
College of Law Alumni Reception
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Bob Ross Paint Along

Thursday, November 13, 2025 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)

Come paint happy little trees with us with the help of @uiowa_arthawks at our Bob Ross Paint Along event November 13th in the Hawkeye Room from 6:00-7:00pm. Follow along and create an early holiday present for someone you love or something to hang in your room for good vibes!🎨🖌

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 activity, please...

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Iowa volleyball vs. Northwestern

Thursday, November 13, 2025 6:00pm
Xtream Arena
The Iowa volleyball team will host Northwestern.
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Owl Prowl

Thursday, November 13, 2025 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Iowa Raptor Project

SOLD OUT!

Your evening will begin indoors with an up-close introduction to our ambassador owls. After this interactive program, we will embark on a night hike adventure in search of owls. Warm up afterwards with a hot beverage. Head lamps will be provided. Space is limited. Participants ages 10+ are invited to register.

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U.S. Marine Anthony Swofford, Writer of Jarhead

Thursday, November 13, 2025 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)

Anthony Swofford is the author of the memoirs Jarhead and Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails and the novel Exit A. The 2005 Sam Mendes film Jarhead was adapted from his first book, detailing his service in the United States Marine Corps and his combat deployment for the 1990-91 Gulf War.

His essays, reportage, and opinion pieces have appeared in Harper’s, The Guardian, Slate, and The New York Times, among other places. He has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is currently Special Faculty in the...

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Good Things: An Evening with Samin Nosrat

Thursday, November 13, 2025 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
Samin Nosrat, champion of the home cook, connects food and community with her new book GOOD THINGS.
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Women's basketball vs. Drake

Thursday, November 13, 2025 7:30pm
Carver-Hawkeye Arena
The Iowa women's basketball team hosts Drake.

Horn Studio Recital

Thursday, November 13, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Horn Studio Recital

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

View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/952029

This concert is free and open to the public.

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Argonautika

Thursday, November 13, 2025 8:00pm
Theatre Building
An epic story of heroes and monsters, of enchanted islands and vengeful gods, where danger looms at every turn --- from savage kings and sea beasts to a capricious sorceress named Medea --- Mary Zimmerman’s Argonautika explores themes of heroism, love, and loss in a modern retelling of the 3rd century B.C. poem.
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Write Now Hawkeye Haiku Contest

Friday, November 14, 2025 (all day)
Virtual
Submit your milestone haiku by Nov. 14!
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ICON Day 2025

Friday, November 14, 2025 9:00am to 3:00pm
Grand Ballroom in the Hilton Garden Inn
ICON Day 2025 will take place on Friday, Nov. 14, at the Hilton Garden Inn's Grand Ballroom. Jeffrey Kontio will deliver the keynote, "What You Do Matters: Designing for Real Access in Real Classrooms," focusing on the role of instructors and instructional designers in creating engaging learning environments while helping to frame accessibility as something that benefits all. Register by Monday, Nov. 3, to attend ICON Day 2025.
DeLTA Center Roundtable Discussion: Kaya de Barbaro promotional image

DeLTA Center Roundtable Discussion: Kaya de Barbaro

Friday, November 14, 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.

Dr. de Barbaro is an Associate Professor of Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin.

Interests: behavior, social interactions...

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UICB Annual Kozo Harvest

Friday, November 14, 2025 9:30am to 4:30pm
UICB Paper Research Facility & Kozo Garden
Join us for the 2025 Kozo Harvest!

Clarence TOW Seminar Series in Finance: Gerard Hoberg

Friday, November 14, 2025 10:35am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Gerard Hoberg is the Charles E. Cook Community Bank Professor of Finance at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business.

Hayward Oubre Pop-Up | Veteran and Student at the University of Iowa promotional image

Hayward Oubre Pop-Up | Veteran and Student at the University of Iowa

Friday, November 14, 2025 11:00am to 1:00pm
Stanley Museum of Art

Visit the Stanley Museum of Art for a pop-up display showcasing items from the University of Iowa Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives related to Hayward Oubre’s student experience.

Visitors are invited to view materials on display in the lobby, including summer art show details, art program brochures, and campus life materials. Take part in an origami craft activity inspired by Oubre’s first wire sculpture.

Bring a friend to experience the pop-up and the Oubre exhibition for a great day at...

Story Lab Fall Showcase

Friday, November 14, 2025 11:30am to 1:00pm
MERGE
Join us for lunch and a showcase of this semester’s best student stories.
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