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)
meetings

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

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Handel’s Messiah, featuring UI Choirs and Symphony Orchestra

Saturday, December 6, 2025 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium

Perfectly timed to ring in the holiday season.

Handel’s Messiah is a beloved masterwork. University of Iowa student musicians from the choir and orchestra programs will come together to bring this perennial favorite gloriously to life. Hallelujah!

Music by George Frideric Handel
Conducted by David Puderbaugh

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Free CPR/AED, Red Watch Band Training

Sunday, December 7, 2025 1:00pm to 3:00pm
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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Women's wrestling home dual vs. Oklahoma State, Colorado Mesa

Sunday, December 7, 2025 2:00pm
Carver-Hawkeye Arena
Women's wrestling home dual vs. Oklahoma State, Colorado Mesa

Double Bass Studio Recital

Sunday, December 7, 2025 3:00pm
Voxman Music Building

Double Bass Studio Recital

This concert is free and open to the public.

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Band Extravaganza

Sunday, December 7, 2025 3:00pm
Xtreme Arena

Band Extravaganza
Featuring the Iowa Symphony Band (Richard Mark Heidel, conductor), Johnson County Landmark (Curtis Taylor, conductor), and the Hawkeye Marching Band (Eric W. Bush, director). Our special guest band this year is the Iowa City West High School Trojan Marching Band, Brian Zeglis and Ryan Middleton, directors.

General Public - $21.00
Youth and Senior - $16.50
UI Student - $5.00
Prices are inclusive of Xtream Arena ticket fees

https://xtreamarena.com/event/ui-band-extravaganza-2025/507

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Senior Recital: Joanna Leston, trumpet

Sunday, December 7, 2025 5:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Senior Recital: Joanna Leston, trumpet

Joanna Leston, trumpet
Jason Sifford, piano

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

This concert is free and open to the public.

Center for New Music Ensemble Concert II

Sunday, December 7, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Center for New Music | Concert II

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.

AI Prompting (Advanced): Elevating your Craft

Monday, December 8, 2025 9:00am to 10:00am
Virtual
Designed for users who already understand the basics, this session dives deeper into prompt engineering techniques to generate more precise, creative, and impactful generative artificial intelligence responses.

Women In Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour

Monday, December 8, 2025 11:00am to 12:00pm
Carver Biomedical Research Building

Join us for the Women in Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour. It is the monthly coffee hour on the second Monday of the month from 11 a.m. to noon in 1289 CBRB. Enjoy coffee, pastries and contribute to the discussion!

This is open to ALL — students, staff, postdocs, and faculty interested in promoting women in science.

Speakers change monthly. Contact: jessica-tucker@uiowa.edu for details.

Clarence TOW Seminar Series in Economics: Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde

Monday, December 8, 2025 11:30am to 12:45pm
Pomerantz Center

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde is a Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Jazz Repertory Ensemble

Monday, December 8, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Jazz Repertory Ensemble

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

This concert is free and open to the public.

Student Recital: Hugo Kaut, violin

Monday, December 8, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Optional Recital: Hugo Kaut, violin

Hugo Kaut, violin
Danyun Zhao, piano
Katie Forbush, cello

This concert is free and open to the public.

Senior Recital: Tatum Calderwood, Mezzo-Soprano

Monday, December 8, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Senior Recital: Tatum Calderwood, Mezzo-Soprano

This concert is free and open to the public.

REDCap Basic Training

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
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...

Design Your Own Copilot Agent: Custom AI for Everyday Tasks

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual
Hands-on with Microsoft Copilot Agents: create, customize, and collaborate using everyday AI.
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Microsoft Teams: Structure and Manage Your Team (Best Practices)

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 11:00am to 11:45am
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...

College of Pharmacy PSET Seminar Series: Matthew Caporizzo, PhD

Tuesday, December 9, 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: 

Matthew Caporizzo, PhD
Assistant Professor
Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
The University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont

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

TriNetX Basic Training

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Virtual

This training will provide an in-depth look at TriNetX and show you how to use the tool. We will go through building a study, searching for a specific population, and finally what information you can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research.

After this training you will have a thorough understanding of how to use TriNetX and what the process is to get data extracted for research studies.

Register by clicking the virtual event link...

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Kaffeeklatsch - German Conversation Hour

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Phillips Hall
Come and practice your German in a comfortable group setting!

DMA I Recital: Eric Luminais, flute

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

DMA I Recital: Eric Luminais, flute

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

This concert is free and open to the public.

Thrive During Finals

Wednesday, December 10, 2025 10:00am to 2:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Finals can be a stressful time, stop by and see Tippie Thrive to unwind and gain some tips to manage stress during finals week.

REDCap Intermediate Training

Wednesday, December 10, 2025 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
...

Departmental Brown Bag

Wednesday, December 10, 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.

Fall 2025 IRB Office Hours

Wednesday, December 10, 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
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