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

GPSG Meetings Fall 2025

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Legislative Meeting

Black Box Theater (360 IMU)
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Legislative Meeting

Black Box Theater (360 IMU)

GPSG Events

There are no upcoming GPSG events at this time. 

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Events Around Campus

Clarinet Choir Recital

Sunday, November 16, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Clarinet Choir 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/952032

This concert is free and open to the public.

Clarence TOW Seminar Series in Economics: Jack Porter

Monday, November 17, 2025 11:30am to 12:45pm
Pomerantz Center

Jack Porter is the Richard E. Stockwell Distinguished Chair and a Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Aurora Borealis: The Physics of Nature’s Light Show

Monday, November 17, 2025 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Sciences Library
Explore the science behind the aurora borealis with Prof. Allison Jaynes and a panel of University of Iowa graduate students and postdoc researchers who study these dazzling displays.
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Clinical Science Rounds: Aaron Scherer

Monday, November 17, 2025 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Psychological and Brain Sciences Building

Dr. Scherer is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Dr. Scherer is a medical decision-making researcher who uses insights from psychology to improve how we utilize and communicate about preventative services such as vaccines, cancer screening, and clinical laboratory test results.

LRJ Houses into Homes Fundraiser

Monday, November 17, 2025 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Boyd Law Building

LRJ is collecting household cleaning items such as multipurpose spray, dish soap, toilet cleaner and brushes/sponges/washrags/paper towels. All students and faculty are encouraged to donate at our table in BLB Lobby. A collection bin will remain in the lobby through Thanksgiving as well. We are not currently accepting monetary donations.

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Career Connectors Session 3: Connecting to the Future

Monday, November 17, 2025 1:00pm to 2:30pm
University Capitol Centre

Participants should complete Session 1 and 2 before attending Session 3.

Designed by the Pomerantz Career Center, the Career Connector training series engages faculty and staff in a tailored curriculum designed to provide knowledge about the career development process and the foundations of employability, as well as teaching best practices for having career conversations with students. Participants will learn valuable helping skills, goal setting techniques, ethical practices, and how best to...

Department of Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series

Monday, November 17, 2025 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Bowen Science Building
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Free CPR/AED, Red Watch Band Training

Monday, November 17, 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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Intro to Mindfulness Workshop for Students

Monday, November 17, 2025 6:00pm to 7:15pm
Adler Journalism and Mass Communication Building
Sign up for a free, 4-week workshop to learn mindfulness meditation in community with other students
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University Band & Concert Band

Monday, November 17, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

University & Concert Band

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

View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/952033

This concert is free and open to the public.

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Iowa swimming and diving Hawkeye Invitational

Tuesday, November 18 to Friday, November 21, 2025 (all day)
Campus Recreation and Wellness Center
Iowa swimming and diving hosts the Hawkeye Invitational.

Design Your Own Copilot Agent: Custom AI for Everyday Tasks

Tuesday, November 18, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual
Hands-on with Microsoft Copilot Agents: create, customize, and collaborate using everyday AI.
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College of Pharmacy PSET Seminar Series: Leslie Benet, PhD

Tuesday, November 18, 2025 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: 

Leslie Benet, PhD
Professor
Department of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, California

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

Seminar Title: "Simplifying the Application and Teaching of Clinical Pharmacokinetics"

LRJ Houses into Homes Fundraiser

Tuesday, November 18, 2025 12:30pm to 1:59pm
Boyd Law Building

LRJ is collecting household cleaning items such as multipurpose spray, dish soap, toilet cleaner and brushes/sponges/washrags/paper towels. All students and faculty are encouraged to donate at our table in BLB Lobby. A collection bin will remain in the lobby through Thanksgiving as well. We are not currently accepting monetary donations.

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Attacca Quartet at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop

Tuesday, November 18, 2025 1:00pm
Dey House
Attacca Quartet is engaged in a week-long residency at the University of Iowa alongside UI 2025–2026 Composer-in-Residence, Gabriel Kahane.
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Stanley Award for International Research - Information Session

Tuesday, November 18, 2025 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Virtual
Dreaming of doing your own research abroad? The Stanley Award for International Research gives UI students up to $2,500 to design and carry out a research or fieldwork project overseas.
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Course Accessibility For Everyone (CAFÉ): Full Blend

Tuesday, November 18, 2025 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Virtual

Course Accessibility for Everyone (CAFÉ) will help you make your ICON course site accessible to all your students. We'll focus on how to improve usage of headings, tables, color contrast, alternative text, and more. By making these simple changes to your ICON site, you're making your course accessible for everyone.

This offering combines content from previous CAFÉ sessions into a single extended session.

Register for event.

The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools...

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Kaffeeklatsch - German Conversation Hour

Tuesday, November 18, 2025 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Phillips Hall
Come and practice your German in a comfortable group setting!
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Intuitive Eating Workshop for Students

Tuesday, November 18, 2025 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Campus Recreation and Wellness Center

Intuitive Eating is an approach that teaches you how to create a healthy relationship with your food, mind, and body. It is based on 10 basic principles that invite you to a world of satisfying eating and a sense of freedom from dieting.

The four-week workshop is free for students and will provide education, activities, practice, and support to improve your food and body image awareness.

Register for the summer workshop by visiting our website.

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Iowa swimming and diving Hawkeye Invitational

Wednesday, November 19 to Friday, November 21, 2025 (all day)
Campus Recreation and Wellness Center
Iowa swimming and diving hosts the Hawkeye Invitational.

Iowa Diabetes and Wellness Summit

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 8:30am to 4:30pm
FFA Enrichment Center/DMACC Ankeny Campus

The 10th Annual Iowa Diabetes + Wellness Summit is a one-day conference that brings together health professionals, including diabetes educators, physicians, dietitians, nurses, and public health practitioners, from across the state of Iowa to learn about the latest in diabetes care, network, and share their experiences working in the field.

The Summit will provide an engaging forum to discuss the latest practices, opportunities, resources, and tools for diabetes prevention, control, and...

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Iowa Nurse Innovators Roadshow

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 11:30am to 2:00pm
Cherokee Regional Medical Center
Join the Office of Innovation for the 2025 Iowa Nurse Innovators Roadshow, a two-day event across Iowa where seasoned nurse innovators will share their stories, and emerging nurse innovators will pitch their ideas!

IRB Efficiency Initiative Information Session

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual
The Human Subjects Office invites the UI research community to attend monthly information sessions about the IRB Efficiency Initiative on the fourth Wednesday of the month, from 12-1 pm.

Departmental Brown Bag

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 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.

Presenter, title, and abstract to come.

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