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GPSG Meetings Fall 2025

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Events Around Campus

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"Navigating Health Care & Insurance in Iowa City" Workshop

Thursday, October 23, 2025 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Virtual
Join Life in Iowa and International Student & Scholar Services (ISSS) for a workshop designed to help international students better understand how health insurance works in the U.S., especially as it relates to everyday life. Learn about how to navigate medical care, make sense of insurance terms, and understand what your plan covers.Whether you’re a first-year student or heading toward graduation soon, we invite all international students to join this event.Access to this event will be...
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Success, Not Excess

Thursday, October 23, 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...
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Kelsey Cook

Thursday, October 23, 2025 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
The Happy Hour TourPart of Club HancherPart of Hancher's 53rd seasonHustle to secure your seat for a comic whose territory is personal—and hilarious.Don’t challenge Kelsey Cook to a foosball game, and don’t miss her standup comedy. Her first special, The Hustler, racked up three million views on YouTube with even more viewers watching on Hulu. In her latest special, Mark Your Territory, she shares personal stories that are equal parts embarrassing, shocking, and hysterical. Claim your spot in...

Guest Artist Recital: Robert Benton, euphonium

Thursday, October 23, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Guest Artist Recital: Robert Benton, euphoniumThis concert is free and open to the public.
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Kelsey Cook

Thursday, October 23, 2025 9:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
The Happy Hour TourPart of Club HancherPart of Hancher's 53rd seasonHustle to secure your seat for a comic whose territory is personal—and hilarious.Don’t challenge Kelsey Cook to a foosball game, and don’t miss her standup comedy. Her first special, The Hustler, racked up three million views on YouTube with even more viewers watching on Hulu. In her latest special, Mark Your Territory, she shares personal stories that are equal parts embarrassing, shocking, and hysterical. Claim your spot in...

CIRTL Teaching as Research Series: Register by Oct. 24

Friday, October 24, 2025 (all day)
Virtual
Graduate students and post-docs from all disciplines can register for this series to learn about teaching as research, develop their own projects, and earn CIRTL Practitioner Level certification.This six-part series will meet online from noon - 1 p.m. on the following dates:Tuesday, Oct. 28Thursday, Oct. 30Tuesday, Nov. 4Thursday, Nov. 6Tuesday, Nov. 11Thursday, Nov. 13Over the course of these sessions, you will learn to use your disciplinary research skills to develop a research question...
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DeLTA Center Roundtable Discussion: Gahyun Callie Sung

Friday, October 24, 2025 9:00am to 10:20am
Lindquist Center
The DeLTA Center Roundtable Discussion is an event that expands the interdisciplinary research community by promoting reciprocal interactions between basic and applied researchers. These events showcase presenters from a wide variety of academic disciplines and an open discussion about implications of the presenter's ideas across fields of study and research.This roundtable event features Dr. Gahyun Callie Sung. Callie is an Assistant Professor of Learning Sciences and Educational Psychology at...

Founding Mothers Support Group

Friday, October 24, 2025 12:28pm to 1:58pm
Boyd Law Building
This support group is led by Social Worker Sam for any student enrolled at Iowa Law who wishes to explore gender dynamics in law school and in the legal field. The invitation is to come together to share, process, and support each other. There is no long-term commitment and no need to attend consistently. If you are interested in attending, please email Social Worker Sam to receive and review a copy of the group’s Constitution before attending. All attendees must sign the group’s Constitution to...

Story Lab Showcase Prep

Friday, October 24, 2025 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building
In preparation for the November 14th Story Lab Showcase at MERGE, we will meet Fridays in October. Attend these casual sessions to workshop and practice your story. Questions? Contact Nick Westergaard at nick-westergaard@uiowa.edu.
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Iowa Volleyball vs. Michigan State

Friday, October 24, 2025 6:00pm
Xtream Arena
The Iowa volleyball team will host Michigan State.

Guest Artist Recital: Caleb Lambert, trombone

Friday, October 24, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Guest Artist Recital: Caleb Lambert, tromboneThis concert is free and open to the public.
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Jeremy Denk, piano

Friday, October 24, 2025 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
J.S. Bach: Partitas for KeyboardPart of Hancher Up ClosePart of Hancher's 53rd seasonA perfect match of a genius musician and ingenious music.A virtuoso of the first order, Jeremy Denk will perform a selection of Bach’s Partitas—works known for being as complex and challenging as they are gorgeous. Denk has won the Avery Fisher Prize, been named a MacArthur “Genius,” and is the author of the bestselling memoir Every Good Boy Does Fine. Enjoy this masterful musician in an intimate setting on...

Guest Chamber Recital: Nicolas Prost, Kenneth Tse, & Casey Dierlam Tse

Friday, October 24, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Guest Chamber Recital: Nicolas Prost, Kenneth Tse, & Casey Dierlam TseNicolas Prost, saxophoneKenneth Tse, saxophoneCasey Dierlam Tse, pianoThis 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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Public Observing Night - Van Allen Observatory

Friday, October 24, 2025 8:00pm to 10:00pm
Van Allen Hall
Please join the University of Iowa Physics & Astronomy Department as we use the Van Allen Observatory and small telescopes to tour the fall sky. To attend this Astronomy observation session, follow the signs in Van Allen Hall to the east elevator to reach the roof.
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Jellyfish Baby

Friday, October 24, 2025 8:00pm
Theatre Building
By Darrin Terpstra Part of Theatre Arts' Gallery Series Tickets:Tickets for workshops and galleries are free of charge; however, you must obtain a ticket at the door and seating is limited.
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Iowa Football vs. Minnesota

Saturday, October 25, 2025 (all day)
Kinnick Stadium
The Iowa Hawkeyes will host Minnesota at Kinnick Stadium.

DMA II Recital: Wendi Griffiths, soprano

Saturday, October 25, 2025 5:30pm
Voxman Music Building
DMA II Recital: Wendi Griffiths, sopranoThis 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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Jellyfish Baby

Saturday, October 25, 2025 8:00pm
Theatre Building
By Darrin Terpstra Part of Theatre Arts' Gallery Series Tickets:Tickets for workshops and galleries are free of charge; however, you must obtain a ticket at the door and seating is limited.
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International Writing Program & Dance Collaboration

Saturday, October 25, 2025 8:00pm
Space Place Theater
An Iowa tradition connects writers from around the world and Department of Dance students. Every year, the University of Iowa's International Writing Program welcomes distinguished writers from around the world for a three-month residency. These visiting writers connect with students and faculty in the UI Department of Dance to develop a collaborative performance. Dancers and writers converse across written, spoken, and movement languages, but also through a shared creative practice. It's an...
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Iowa Volleyball vs. Rutgers

Sunday, October 26, 2025 2:00pm
Xtream Arena
The Iowa volleyball team will host Rutgers.
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Jellyfish Baby

Sunday, October 26, 2025 2:00pm
Theatre Building
By Darrin Terpstra Part of Theatre Arts' Gallery Series Tickets:Tickets for workshops and galleries are free of charge; however, you must obtain a ticket at the door and seating is limited.

Key Change: Brahms and His Piano Legacy, Concert #2

Sunday, October 26, 2025 3:00pm
Voxman Music Building
Key Change: Brahms and His Piano Legacy, Concert #2This 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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Disney's Moana

Sunday, October 26, 2025 6:00pm
Hancher Auditorium
Live-to-Film ConcertPart of Hancher's 53rd seasonYour family doesn’t have to go far to embark on a quest with an intrepid chosen one.Disney’s Moana Live-to-Film Concert features a full-length screening of the beloved animated movie accompanied by live music performed by an ensemble of top Hollywood studio musicians, Polynesian rhythm masters, and vocalists. This event for the whole family celebrates the music and songs from an award-winning Walt Disney Animation Studios’ animated classic.Moana L...
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