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

GPSG Meetings Spring 2026

meetings

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

Follow us on Instagram (uiowagpsg) for the latest updates!

Events Around Campus

This Is the Route of My Forefathers: The 1837 Ioway Map | Iowa City promotional image

This Is the Route of My Forefathers: The 1837 Ioway Map | Iowa City

Monday, April 6, 2026 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Join University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist adjunct research associate and former Iowa State Archaeologist, William Green, for a book discussion and meet the author event for his new title, This is the Route of My Forefathers: The 1837 Ioway Map. He will be joined in conversation by Alan Kelley of the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska.

Zeitgeist Duo: Theodor Carlson, baritone and Hyun Kim, piano

Monday, April 6, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Zeitgeist Duo: Theodor Carlson, baritone and Hyun Kim, piano

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

This concert is free and open to the public.

Flute Studio Recital- Works by Living Composers

Monday, April 6, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Flute Studio Recital- Works by Living Composers

University of Iowa Flute Studio
Emily Ho
Ryan MacDonald
Caleb Estrada-Valentín
Chaosupei Gao
Eric Luminais
Ana Clark
Jair Lopez
Isabella Anderson
Ella Boesen
Mikaila Matheson
Brady Johnson
Jay White
Ali Taylor
Jessica Ford

This concert is free and open to the public.

Recital: Sean Harken, bass-baritone

Monday, April 6, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Recital: Sean Harken, bass-baritone

This concert is free and open to the public.

Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Program Thesis Defense Seminar: Ashby Martin promotional image

Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Program Thesis Defense Seminar: Ashby Martin

Monday, April 6, 2026 11:30pm
Medical Laboratories

Ashby Martin is a PhD candidate in the Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Graduate Program. His research has been conducted in Dr. Dan Tranel's laboratory.

If you are unable to attend in person, please consider showing your support and attending via Zoom. Please email britt-hokanson@uiowa.edu for the zoom link.

Engaging Across Cultures: Navigating Intercultural Conflicts promotional image

Engaging Across Cultures: Navigating Intercultural Conflicts

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 9:00am to 11:00am
Virtual
In this interactive session, participants will explore the four intercultural conflict styles using the Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory (ICS). The ICS is an 18-item assessment that measures individuals’ core approaches to communicating about differences, resolving conflicts, and solving problems across cultures.

REDCap Basic Training

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 10:00am to 11:30am
Virtual

This is the first step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will build a new REDCap project from scratch and cover basic features such as:

• Building forms with proper field types and validation
• Assigning user permissions
• Project backup and overview with data dictionary, codebook, pdf, and xml
• Ensuring your project works properly by testing with real world application
• Making mid-study modifications safely after having started data collection in production
• Creating and...

College of Pharmacy PSET Seminar Series: Aktham Aburub, '04 PhD

Tuesday, April 7, 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: 

Aktham Aburub, '04 PhD
VP-Research-Synthetic Molecule Design and Development
Eli Lilly and Company

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

Hardin Open Workshops: Open Access: Policies, Publishers, and Predators (Zoom) promotional image

Hardin Open Workshops: Open Access: Policies, Publishers, and Predators (Zoom)

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual
Hardin Open Workshops: Open Access: Policies, Publishers, and Predators
13th Annual Fulbright Week - The Application Start to Finish promotional image

13th Annual Fulbright Week - The Application Start to Finish

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Virtual
Would you like to teach English, study, or do research abroad for an academic year at no cost? Join International Programs for a week of virtual workshops and information sessions to kick off the 2027-2028 Fulbright U.S. Student Program competition!

Seminar Series: Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Bowen Science Building

Each semester, we are proud to host outstanding seminar speakers. Everyone is encouraged to attend.

Bachelor of Arts in Social Work Info Session

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Virtual

Please join us via Zoom for an info session to learn more about earning a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work degree.

https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/96938044127

Contact our Admissions Office directly with any questions or requests.

ssw-admissions@uiowa.edu

319-335-1250

UI Monthly Jazz Jam promotional image

UI Monthly Jazz Jam

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Tavern Blue
Jazz Studies faculty members host a monthly community jazz jam session
This Is the Route of My Forefathers: The 1837 Ioway Map | Grinnell promotional image

This Is the Route of My Forefathers: The 1837 Ioway Map | Grinnell

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 7:00pm
Grinnell College HSSC A22321 Auditorium
Join University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist adjunct research associate and former Iowa State Archaeologist, William Green, for a book discussion and meet the author event for his new title, This is the Route of My Forefathers: The 1837 Ioway Map. This event is organized by the Center for Prairie Studies, contact grahamj@grinnell.edu if you have questions.

Jonathan Allen, Trombone Faculty Recital

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Jonathan Allen, Trombone Faculty Recital

This concert is free and open to the public.

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Study Hall

Wednesday, April 8, 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.

REDCap Intermediate Training

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This is the second step in the REDCap training series. In this training we will cover basic and intermediate features such as:
• Outputting data automatically with calculated fields
• Collecting the same data points multiple times with longitudinal and one-to-many data collection
• Standardizing your data to industry standards with ontologies and the REDCap Instrument Library
• Ways to customize your data entry experience with action tags
• Viewing data with reports, dashboards, and charts
• And more

T...

13th Annual Fulbright Week - New Grants and Countries Available! promotional image

13th Annual Fulbright Week - New Grants and Countries Available!

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 11:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual
Would you like to teach English, study, or do research abroad for an academic year at no cost? Join International Programs for a week of virtual workshops and information sessions to kick off the 2027-2028 Fulbright U.S. Student Program competition!
Departmental Brown Bag: Woo-Tek Lee promotional image

Departmental Brown Bag: Woo-Tek Lee

Wednesday, April 8, 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.

Woo-Tek Lee is a Graduate Student in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Woo-Tek is in the Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience training area and is a member of the Jiang Lab.

Title and abstract to come

Spring 2026 IRB Office Hours

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 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.
Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Program Thesis Defense Seminar: Utsav Mukherjee promotional image

Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Program Thesis Defense Seminar: Utsav Mukherjee

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 2:00pm
Medical Education Research Facility

Utsav Mukherjee is a PhD candidate in the Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Graduate Program. His research has been conducted in Dr. Ted Abel's laboratory.

If you are unable to attend in person, please consider showing your support and attending via Zoom. Please email britt-hokanson@uiowa.edu for the zoom link.

Iowa softball vs. Iowa State promotional image

Iowa softball vs. Iowa State

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 5:00pm
Pearl Softball Field
The Iowa softball team hosts Iowa State.

Sioux City MSW Info Session

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Virtual
To learn about the MSW program options and specializations available in Sioux City.
Hope and fears: Why journalism remains essential in a time of global democratic erosion  promotional image

Hope and fears: Why journalism remains essential in a time of global democratic erosion

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 6:00pm to 7:15pm
Iowa City Public Library
Prof. Silvio Waisbord will interrogate the global role of journalism as authoritarianism and populism gain ground and civil society faces escalating crises.
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