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

GPSG Meetings Fall 2025

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Black Box Theater (360 IMU)
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Legislative Meeting

Black Box Theater (360 IMU)
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Legislative Meeting

Black Box Theater (360 IMU)
meetings

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

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.

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.

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...

Ada Stoflet Lecture: Joyce McIntosh

Tuesday, November 18, 2025 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Old Capitol Museum
Ada Stoflet Lecture: Joyce McIntosh

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!

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.

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...

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.

LRJ Houses into Homes Fundraiser

Wednesday, November 19, 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.

NLG Lecture

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 12:40pm to 1:50pm
Boyd Law Building

From Disney and Paramount settling frivolous lawsuits with President Trump to Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension from ABC, the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) examines the state of free speech under his influence.

2026 Environmental Legislative Updates

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 12:45pm to 2:00pm
Boyd Law Building

Join the Environmental Law Society for a preview of the 2026 Iowa state legislative session, featuring insights from the president and CEO of Advocacy Strategies, a government relations and media consulting firm, and the senior director of policy and programs at the Iowa Environmental Council (IEC). The briefing will include an overview of key environmental and energy policy, land and water initiatives expected in the upcoming legislative session. This discussion will also introduce attendees to...

Current Event Discussion Group

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 12:45pm to 1:45pm
Boyd Law Building

Microsoft Teams: Working with Files

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 1:00pm to 1:45pm
Virtual

This course will show you how to edit and share files in Teams chats, meetings, or channels. We will talk about best practices for Team file storage and organization as well as co-authoring files and how to access personal files view. We will discuss how Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive work together from a file storage perspective. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course. To schedule additional Microsoft Teams training for your department...

Fall 2025 IRB Office Hours

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Virtual
IRB Office Hours are for all UI faculty, staff, and Investigators, HawkIRB delegates, and research team members involved with Human Subjects research. No appointment

Food Around the World

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Phillips Hall
The Food Studies Group, a promising new initiative supported by International Programs, will host its first event, Food Around the World, on Wednesday, November 19, from 2 to 3 p.m. in the Culture Bites Cafe, room 120 of Phillips Hall. Free and open to all students, this event invites attendees to explore global cultures through one of our greatest connectors—food.

Maximizing Pivot to Find Funding and Collaborators (November 2025)

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 2:00pm to 3:00pm
University Capitol Centre

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 room location upon registration.

School's Out at the Stanley | Quirky Bird

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Stanley Museum of Art

Create your very own "quirky bird" using a foil relief technique! Children will think outside the box as they design and construct a low foil relief quirky bird using cardboard shapes, glue, tin foil and sharpies.

Space is limited; please reserve your spot at https://uiowa.doubleknot.com/event/schools-out-at-the-stanley-quirky-bird/3114194

Please arrive in time for children to settle in and begin the project at 2:00 pm.

School's Out at the Stanley is offered on days when Iowa City Community Schools...

Fall Undergraduate Research Festival

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 3:30pm to 6:00pm
University Capitol Centre
Join us to view undergraduate research posters in 2nd floor UCC!

Success, Not Excess

Wednesday, November 19, 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...

Masters Recital: Neile Breiten, french horn

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 5:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Masters Recital: Neile Breiten, french horn

This concert is free and open to the public.

International Movie Night

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 6:30pm to 8:30pm
FilmScene
International Movie Night
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