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Events Around Campus

Legally Different: Careers That Break the Mold

Thursday, November 13, 2025 12:40pm to 1:40pm
Boyd Law Building

Join us for a panel discussion with current lawyers, industry leaders and dynamic professions. Focused on alternative career paths for J.D. holders, attendees will participate in a Q&A and learn about legal journeys beyond big law. Lunch provided.

Legally Different: Careers That Break the Mold

Thursday, November 13, 2025 12:40pm to 1:40pm
Boyd Law Building

Join OWLSS for our Fall conference on Thursday, November 13th from 12:40-1:40 PM in Boyd Law School, Room 235! This year's conference will focus on "non-traditional" legal careers and aims to highlight women leaders who have forged unique and impactful professional paths beyond traditional law firm or courtroom settings. We hope to inspire students to think creatively about how they can apply their legal education to diverse roles in policy, academia, advocacy, and beyond.

Along with a panel...

Christian Legal Society Weekly Meeting

Thursday, November 13, 2025 12:45pm to 1:44pm
Boyd Law Building

This is the Christian Legal Society Weekly Meeting!

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Microsoft Teams: Get Started with Teams Phone

Thursday, November 13, 2025 1:00pm to 1:30pm
Virtual

The University of Iowa is currently in the process of migrating from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams for telephony services. This course will show you how to place calls, transfer calls, set up voicemail, assign delegates, and more.

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2025 Three Minute Thesis Competition

Thursday, November 13, 2025 1:30pm to 3:30pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)

The University of Iowa’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition challenges graduate students to clearly and concisely articulate complex research to nonspecialist audiences.
Join us on Nov. 13 at the Iowa Memorial Union (IMU) International Ballroom.

The 3MT competition will be held from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the IMU International Ballroom (2nd floor). Join us to see our amazing 3MT finalists present their incredible research at the final competition. This event is open to the entire UI campus and...

Story Lab Showcase Prep (MERGE)

Thursday, November 13, 2025 3:00pm to 5:00pm
MERGE
Final practice before the showcase!

Plasma Physics Seminar - Daniel Groselj, Ph.D.; KU Leuven

Thursday, November 13, 2025 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Van Allen Hall
Plasma Physics Seminar
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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

Soft Actuation with Smart Materials: A Bioinspired Approach

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

Mechanical Engineering Graduate Seminar

Presentation: Soft robotics is an emerging discipline focused on developing machines composed of compliant materials that mimic the adaptability and dexterity of biological organisms. Unlike traditional rigid systems, soft robots can safely interact with humans and conform to complex, unstructured environments. This seminar presents the design, fabrication, and characterization of bioinspired soft robotic systems that employ Twisted and Coiled Artificial...

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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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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.
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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!

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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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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Owl Prowl

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

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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Iowa volleyball vs. Northwestern

Thursday, November 13, 2025 6:00pm
Xtream Arena
The Iowa volleyball team will host Northwestern.
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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 1990-1991 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...

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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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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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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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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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.
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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!
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