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Events Around Campus

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Ten-Minute Play Festival

Friday, February 20, 2026 2:00pm
Theatre Building

By Undergraduate Playwrights

The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts is proud to present the 29th annual Ten-Minute Play Festival. Join us for the premiere of our undergraduate playwrights' new works, directed by Tony Meneses!

The Ten-Minute Play Festival features ten-minute productions that are written, acted, designed, and run by undergraduate students. Support these students in a night that will have something for everyone.

Tickets
Tickets for the Ten-Minute Play Festival are...

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Spiker Memorial Lecture: Nim Tottenham

Friday, February 20, 2026 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Psychological and Brain Sciences Building

The Spiker Memorial Lecture honors Charles W. Spiker's influential research and educational leadership in the field of experimental child psychology. Following Spiker's death in 1993, his students and colleagues endowed this memorial lectureship to honor all that he stood for. Its purpose is to bring to Iowa today's outstanding minds in developmental psychology.

Nim Tottenham is a Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University in the City of New York. Her...

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UI Symphony Orchestra with Gabriel Kahane

Friday, February 20, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

A concert bringing composers and musicians together.

The University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra will perform a suite of murder ballads by Hancher’s composer-in-residence Gabriel Kahane—and Kahane himself will join the ensemble. In addition, composer Lowell Liebermann will be in attendance to experience the U.S. premiere of his Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra Op. 142, written for and performed by UI Professor of Saxophone, Dr. Kenneth Tse, during the first half of the program.

Conducted by...

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Ten-Minute Play Festival

Saturday, February 21, 2026 2:00pm
Theatre Building

By Undergraduate Playwrights

The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts is proud to present the 29th annual Ten-Minute Play Festival. Join us for the premiere of our undergraduate playwrights' new works, directed by Tony Meneses!

The Ten-Minute Play Festival features ten-minute productions that are written, acted, designed, and run by undergraduate students. Support these students in a night that will have something for everyone.

Tickets
Tickets for the Ten-Minute Play Festival are...

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Symphony Band Showcase Concert

Saturday, February 21, 2026 6:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Symphony Band Showcase Concert

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

This concert is free and open to the public.

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Del Sol Quartet, presented by UI String Quartet Residency Program + UI Center for Asian and Pacific Studies

Saturday, February 21, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Del Sol Quartet, presented by UI String Quartet Residency Program + UI Center for Asian and Pacific Studies

Benjamin Kreith & Hyeyung Sol Yoon, violin
Charlton Lee, viola
Kathryn Bates, cello

The Del Sol Quartet residency is a UI String Quartet Residency Program / Center for Asian and Pacific Studies/ Obermann Center for Advanced Studies collaboration with support from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Endowment Fund

delsolquartet.com

This concert is free and open to the public, and sponsored in part by...

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Women's basketball vs. Michigan

Sunday, February 22, 2026 11:00am
Carver-Hawkeye Arena
The Iowa women's basketball team hosts Michigan.
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Iowa Honor Band Showcase Concert

Sunday, February 22, 2026 1:00pm
Voxman Music Building

Iowa Honor Band Showcase Concert

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

This concert is free and open to the public.

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Ten-Minute Play Festival

Sunday, February 22, 2026 2:00pm
Theatre Building

By Undergraduate Playwrights

The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts is proud to present the 29th annual Ten-Minute Play Festival. Join us for the premiere of our undergraduate playwrights' new works, directed by Tony Meneses!

The Ten-Minute Play Festival features ten-minute productions that are written, acted, designed, and run by undergraduate students. Support these students in a night that will have something for everyone.

Tickets
Tickets for the Ten-Minute Play Festival are...

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Gabriel Kahane

Sunday, February 22, 2026 4:00pm
Hancher Auditorium
The confines of “singer-songwriter” are too limiting to hold this artist and his searching work.

Center for New Music Ensemble Concert III

Sunday, February 22, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Center for New Music Ensemble Concert III

More concert details can be viewed here on the Center for New Music website: https://cnm.uiowa.edu/

This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule.

This concert is free and open to the public.

DMA Qualifying Recital: Omar H Elmusa, Trombone

Monday, February 23, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

DMA Qualifying Recital: Omar H Elmusa, Trombone

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

This concert is free and open to the public.

College of Pharmacy PSET Seminar Series: William Thiel, PhD

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 11:30am
College of Pharmacy Building

The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics (PSET) in the College of Pharmacy will host a seminar presented by: 

William Thiel, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Iowa

All are welcome to attend. No pre-registration required.

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Isidore String Quartet at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 1:00pm
Dey House
The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Hancher Auditorium, and the Iowa String Quartet Residency Program present the Isidore String Quartet for an intimate hour-long afternoon concert at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop Frank Conroy Reading Room.
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Study Hall

Wednesday, February 25, 2026 10:00am to 12:00pm
University of Iowa Museum of Natural History
The Museum of Natural History welcomes students each week for a study session in our galleries. We'll provide the snacks, cushions, and ambiance. You bring your planners, textbooks, or assignments. Together, we'll stay ahead of our goals this semester.
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Departmental Brown Bag: Koushani Biswas and Hazal Arpaci

Wednesday, February 25, 2026 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Psychological and Brain Sciences Building

Brown Bag events feature presentations by Psychological and Brain Sciences graduate students from the Cognitive and Behavioral Cognitive Neuroscience training areas.

Koushani Biswas is a Graduate Student in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Koushani is in the Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience training area and is a member of the Freeman Lab.

Hazal Arpaci is a Graduate Student in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Hazal is in the Behavioral & Cognitive...

Catie Hickey - Trombone Guest Artist

Wednesday, February 25, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Catie Hickey - Trombone Guest Artist

This concert is free and open to the public.

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Men's basketball vs. Ohio State

Wednesday, February 25, 2026 8:00pm
Carver-Hawkeye Arena
The Iowa men's basketball team hosts Ohio State.
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Maximizing Pivot to Find Funding and Collaborators (February 2026)

Thursday, February 26, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

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 Zoom link upon registration.

Contracting Principles in the EU and UK

Thursday, February 26, 2026 12:40pm to 1:50pm
Boyd Law Building

Join us for a presentation and Q&A on contracting principles in the EU and UK with EU-based lawyer Iwona Gryglicka. Lunch will be provided!

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Women's basketball vs. Illinois

Thursday, February 26, 2026 2:00pm
Carver-Hawkeye Arena
The Iowa women's basketball team hosts Illinois.
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Success, Not Excess

Thursday, February 26, 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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DeLTA Center Bold Assertion Night

Thursday, February 26, 2026 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Psychological and Brain Sciences Building

DeLTA members challenge each other to think new, think differently and think big. This happens at our roundtables and regular meetings. But the heart of this challenge is Bold Assertion Night.

DeLTA members gather over snacks and drinks to think together about challenging problem. One or two people make a bold assertion and defend it. Then comes the discussion. No slides, no movies, and no holds barred.

Location subject to change. Theme of the Bold Assertion to be announced.

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Isidore String Quartet

Thursday, February 26, 2026 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
“Live performance is where the four of us love to be because so many things are possible,” says Adrian Steele, violinist in the Isidore String Quartet.
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