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

GPSG Meetings Spring 2026

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Legislative Meeting

Black Box Theater (360 IMU)
meetings

Legislative Meeting

Black Box Theater (360 IMU)
meetings

Legislative Meeting

Black Box Theater (360 IMU)
meetings

Legislative Meeting

Black Box Theater (360 IMU)

GPSG Events

GPSG Ball 2026

Tickets open on March 1, 2026

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Events Around Campus

Engaging Across Cultures: Demystifying the Academic Job Search Process promotional image

Engaging Across Cultures: Demystifying the Academic Job Search Process

Wednesday, April 1, 2026 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Virtual
This session will help students better understand how academic culture(s) impact the academic job search process. Participants will learn about how to navigate the academic job search process and develop application materials that effectively reflect the values and priorities of the institutions and departments to which they are applying.
Culture on Film: Short, Indigenous, Creative (pick 2 or more) - Ida Beam public lecture promotional image

Culture on Film: Short, Indigenous, Creative (pick 2 or more) - Ida Beam public lecture

Wednesday, April 1, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Becker Communication Studies Building
This talk will offer a quick-start guide for novice filmmakers, illustrated by several Indigenous-made films that showcase the creative energy and power of short-form and do-it-yourself media.
Hillcrest Market Place Nutrition Tour: Plant-Based Dining promotional image

Hillcrest Market Place Nutrition Tour: Plant-Based Dining

Wednesday, April 1, 2026 4:30pm to 5:30pm
Hillcrest Hall
Interested in learning more about plant-based dining options? Sign up for a Market Place Tour with a UHD Registered Dietitian!
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College of Pharmacy Etiquette Dinner

Wednesday, April 1, 2026 5:30pm
The Courtyard Marriott

UI College of Pharmacy, Genesis Board, and Phi Lambda Sigma invite pharmacy students to join them for a fun, interactive Etiquette Dinner & Cocktail Hour designed to take the guesswork out of professional social events. Learn how to mix, mingle, and dine with confidence to make a lasting, positive impression.

RSVP by March 23.

DMA III Recital: Rachel Walter, violin

Wednesday, April 1, 2026 5:30pm
Voxman Music Building

DMA III Recital: Rachel Walter, violin

Rachel Walter, violin
Halie Augustus

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

This concert is free and open to the public.

Documentary screening of "Searching for Sequoyah" hosted by Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor Joshua B. Nelson promotional image

Documentary screening of "Searching for Sequoyah" hosted by Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor Joshua B. Nelson

Wednesday, April 1, 2026 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Becker Communication Studies Building
We will hold a screening of the PBS documentary "Searching for Sequoyah (ᎾᏍᎩᏃ ᏍᏏᏉᏯ ᎠᏥᏲᎭ)" with commentary by co-producer, co-writer and host Prof. Joshua B. Nelson, Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor.
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UI Symphony Orchestra

Wednesday, April 1, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

UI Symphony Orchestra

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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Top Hat Student Response System

Thursday, April 2, 2026 8:30am to 9:30am
Virtual

Top Hat has several options to engage students with in-class quizzes, surveys, and discussions, as well as attendance features that connect to the ICON gradebook. Learn how to get started with this platform and get ideas to adapt it to your courses.

Register for event.

The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and services to optimize teaching and learning through learning sciences research, ICON, teaching and learning data, and advanced classroom and...

Spring 2026 IRB Office Hours

Thursday, April 2, 2026 10:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual
IRB Office Hours are for all UI faculty, staff, and Investigators, HawkIRB delegates, and research team members involved with Human Subjects research.
Microsoft Teams: Structure and Manage Your Team (Best Practices) promotional image

Microsoft Teams: Structure and Manage Your Team (Best Practices)

Thursday, April 2, 2026 1:00pm to 1:45pm
Virtual

This course is designed for anyone who creates a team or has been given the team owner role in an existing team. Team owners have access to settings and capabilities that members do not see. This training will discuss how best to create a team, choose settings based upon your needs, and manage the team throughout its existence. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course. To schedule additional Microsoft Teams training for your department, team...

Integrating Fluid Dynamics With Virology: An Intra-airway Model for Inhaled Transmission of Pathogens promotional image

Integrating Fluid Dynamics With Virology: An Intra-airway Model for Inhaled Transmission of Pathogens

Thursday, April 2, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Seamans Center

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Graduate Seminar

PRESENTATION: While substantial research has focused on the spatial transmission of human respiratory ejecta, progress has been relatively limited in understanding how the physics of inhalation flow within an exposed subject's airway affects the local transport of pathogen-laden particulates, ultimately influencing infection onset. In the first part of this talk, Dr. Basu will present a pathogen-agnostic fluid dynamics model that explores...

Burge Market Place Nutrition Tour: Plant-Based Dining promotional image

Burge Market Place Nutrition Tour: Plant-Based Dining

Thursday, April 2, 2026 4:30pm to 5:30pm
Burge Hall
Interested in learning more about plant-based dining options? Sign up for a Market Place Tour with a UHD Registered Dietitian!
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Arabic Cultural Hour

Thursday, April 2, 2026 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Phillips Hall
Join the UI Arabic Program for Arabic Cultural Hour! We have set up a number of exciting activities to explore the cultural practices behind Arabic and their relationship with the language. These activities include traditional crafts, cooking, movies, and more. Alongside each activity we will practice our in-class vocabulary and learn new terms to describe the activity.
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Success, Not Excess

Thursday, April 2, 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...

Guest Artist Recital: Scott Sutherland, tuba

Thursday, April 2, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Guest Artist Recital: Scott Sutherland, tuba

This concert is free and open to the public.

Iowa Steel Bands Spring Concert

Thursday, April 2, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Iowa Steel Bands Spring Concert

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

This concert is free and open to the public.

Dance Thesis Concert: Lauren Linder, Mikey Rioux promotional image

Dance Thesis Concert: Lauren Linder, Mikey Rioux

Thursday, April 2, 2026 8:00pm
Space Place Theater

Free and open to the public.

This performance will feature works choreographed by graduate students Lauren Linder and Mikey Rioux from the University of Iowa Department of Dance.

It's all part of #NewWorkCity, the spring initiative by #PerformingArtsAtIowa to highlight new work created by our talented graduate students in the performing arts. Join us as we celebrate one part of the full range of creative work happening at the University of Iowa. Keep an eye out for more posts this spring featuring...

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Stop/Time Festival

Friday, April 3 to Saturday, April 4, 2026 (all day)
Hancher Auditorium
Stop/Time Festival is a two-day, multi-venue, multi-artist spring festival produced by Hancher Auditorium and devoted to innovation and independence in contemporary music and the arts. This is a festival of discovery—opening our ears and minds to new sounds, ideas, and possibilities.

AI Prompting (Beginner): Crafting the Basics

Friday, April 3, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual
Through hands-on practice and interactive exercises, attendees will apply promoting strategies in real-time with guidance and feedback.

Clarence Tow Seminar Series in Finance: Tristan Fitzgerald

Friday, April 3, 2026 10:35am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Tristan Fitzgerald is an assistant professor of Finance at the Texas A&M University.

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Friday Crafternoons

Friday, April 3, 2026 1:00pm to 3:30pm
Stanley Museum of Art

Need a break at the end of the week? Swing by the Stanley on Friday afternoons for Crafternoons. Bring whatever low-mess craft you're currently working on (a sketchbook, knitting, embroidery, coloring books, origami — whatever you're into!) or just show up and use some of the various supplies we'll have on hand. No experience required! Light snacks provided. Stay for five minutes or hang out for a while, it's up to you.

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The Social Impact of AI Roundtable Discussion

Friday, April 3, 2026 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building
The Tippie College of Business Social Impact Community and Hubbell Environmental Law Initiative are hosting a workshop connecting researchers and professionals interested in exploring one of today’s most urgent questions: What is the social impact of artificial intelligence—and how can we shape it for good?

Story Lab Showcase Prep (MERGE)

Friday, April 3, 2026 1:00pm to 3:00pm
MERGE
Showcase practice in the space—one week out!
School's Out at the Stanley | Wobbly Eggs promotional image

School's Out at the Stanley | Wobbly Eggs

Friday, April 3, 2026 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Stanley Museum of Art

Make your very own collection of weighted easter eggs that won't fall over. Use them to play, decorate, or hide around the house!

Space is limited; please reserve your spot at https://uiowa.doubleknot.com/event/schools-out-at-the-stanley-wobbly-eggs/3114202

Please arrive in time for children to settle in and begin the project at 2 p.m.

School's Out at the Stanley is offered on days when Iowa City Community Schools District has no classes. Art projects are developed with school-aged children in mind...

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