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Events Around Campus

Rocklin Teaching and Learning Speaker Series: Sarah Silverman

Thursday, January 15, 2026 9:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

With more students identifying as neurodivergent, this session will explore what neurodiversity looks like in the classroom. Participants will engage with case studies and learn about resources for syllabus and assignment design that take a neurodiversity-informed approach.

Sarah Silverman, an educator and independent faculty developer focusing on neurodiversity, disability studies, and instructional design, will be our featured speaker for this year's event.

The Center for Teaching advocates for...

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Women's basketball vs. Oregon

Thursday, January 15, 2026 8:00pm
Carver-Hawkeye Arena
The Iowa women's basketball team hosts Oregon.
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Iowa diving vs. Nebraska and Illinois

Friday, January 16 to Saturday, January 17, 2026 (all day)
Campus Recreation and Wellness Center
Iowa diving hosts Nebraska and Illinois.

New TA Orientation

Friday, January 16, 2026 9:00am to 12:00pm
Van Allen Hall
This in-person event will introduce participants to the role of teaching assistant at the University of Iowa. This event is geared toward any TA interested in developing practical teaching skills and increasing their knowledge of pedagogy. New TA Orientation is especially beneficial to anyone who will be a TA at the UI for the first time.
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College of Nursing White Coat Ceremony

Friday, January 16, 2026 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)
BSN and MSN:EIP White Coat Ceremony
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Men's wrestling vs. Penn State

Friday, January 16, 2026 6:00pm
Carver-Hawkeye Arena
The Iowa men's wrestling team hosts Penn State.
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Iowa diving vs. Nebraska and Illinois

Saturday, January 17, 2026 (all day)
Campus Recreation and Wellness Center
Iowa diving hosts Nebraska and Illinois.
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Women's wrestling home dual vs. Lehigh and Otterbein

Sunday, January 18, 2026 12:00pm
Carver-Hawkeye Arena
Women's wrestling home dual vs. Lehigh and Otterbein
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Women's basketball vs. Michigan State

Sunday, January 18, 2026 7:00pm
Carver-Hawkeye Arena
The Iowa women's basketball team hosts Michigan State.
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Men's basketball vs. Rutgers

Tuesday, January 20, 2026 7:30pm
Carver-Hawkeye Arena
The Iowa men's basketball team hosts Rutgers.
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Success, Not Excess

Wednesday, January 21, 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...

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Kinky Boots

Friday, January 23, 2026 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
Everybody say “Yeah!” and let Kinky Boots lift your spirits to high-heeled heights! Winner of every Best Musical award, including the Tony, Grammy and London’s Olivier Award, Kinky Boots continues to captivate and entertain audiences around the world with a Tony-winning score by Cyndi Lauper, book by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, and original direction and Tony-winning choreography by Jerry Mitchell.

Based on true events, Kinky Boots follows the journey of two people with nothing in common — or so they think. The unlikely pair find that they have more in common than they realized ... and discover that you change the world when you change your mind.
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Kinky Boots

Saturday, January 24, 2026 2:00pm
Hancher Auditorium
Everybody say “Yeah!” and let Kinky Boots lift your spirits to high-heeled heights! Winner of every Best Musical award, including the Tony, Grammy and London’s Olivier Award, Kinky Boots continues to captivate and entertain audiences around the world with a Tony-winning score by Cyndi Lauper, book by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, and original direction and Tony-winning choreography by Jerry Mitchell.

Based on true events, Kinky Boots follows the journey of two people with nothing in common — or so they think. The unlikely pair find that they have more in common than they realized ... and discover that you change the world when you change your mind.
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Kinky Boots

Saturday, January 24, 2026 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
Everybody say “Yeah!” and let Kinky Boots lift your spirits to high-heeled heights! Winner of every Best Musical award, including the Tony, Grammy and London’s Olivier Award, Kinky Boots continues to captivate and entertain audiences around the world with a Tony-winning score by Cyndi Lauper, book by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, and original direction and Tony-winning choreography by Jerry Mitchell.

Based on true events, Kinky Boots follows the journey of two people with nothing in common — or so they think. The unlikely pair find that they have more in common than they realized ... and discover that you change the world when you change your mind.
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Women's basketball vs. Ohio State

Sunday, January 25, 2026 1:00pm
Carver-Hawkeye Arena
The Iowa women's basketball team hosts Ohio State.
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Kinky Boots

Sunday, January 25, 2026 2:00pm
Hancher Auditorium
Everybody say “Yeah!” and let Kinky Boots lift your spirits to high-heeled heights! Winner of every Best Musical award, including the Tony, Grammy and London’s Olivier Award, Kinky Boots continues to captivate and entertain audiences around the world with a Tony-winning score by Cyndi Lauper, book by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, and original direction and Tony-winning choreography by Jerry Mitchell.

Based on true events, Kinky Boots follows the journey of two people with nothing in common — or so they think. The unlikely pair find that they have more in common than they realized ... and discover that you change the world when you change your mind.

Longing: Stella Dayrit Roden, soprano and Amanda Arrington, piano

Sunday, January 25, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Faculty & Guest Artist Recital: Longing

Stella Dayrit Roden, soprano and Amanda Arrington, piano

This concert is free and open to the public.

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5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music--A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 3: Memes

Monday, January 26, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music - A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 3: Memes

Professor Matthew Arndt emcees the third presentation in this series of intergalactic music poetics. Drawing together ancient wisdom and modern science, this poetics aims at transmuting one’s experience of everything as music and living joyfully even as we work confidently toward an abundant future.

Featuring selections from Quartet for the End of Time

Katie Wolfe, violin
Jorge Montilla Moreno, clarinet
Carey...

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Maximizing Pivot to Find Funding and Collaborators (January 2026)

Wednesday, January 28, 2026 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Virtual

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 Zoom link upon registration.

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Success, Not Excess

Wednesday, January 28, 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...

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Men's basketball vs. USC

Wednesday, January 28, 2026 6:00pm
Carver-Hawkeye Arena
The Iowa men's basketball team hosts USC.
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DeLTA Center Colloquium: Sophia Choukas-Bradley

Thursday, January 29, 2026 3:30pm to 5:00pm
University Capitol Centre

Dr. Choukas-Bradley is an Associate Professor at The University of Pittsburgh in the Department of Psychology

Interests: interpersonal and sociocultural influences on the mental health and wellbeing of adolescents and emerging adults (ages 11–24).

Presentation title and abstract to come.

Sophia’s Bio Page: https://www.psychology.pitt.edu/people/sophia-choukas-bradley-phd

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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

Thursday, January 29, 2026 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
Wynton Marsalis and his eminent ensemble return with an inspired Ellington program.
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DeLTA Center Roundtable discussion: Sophia Choukas-Bradley

Friday, January 30, 2026 9:00am to 10:30am
University Capitol Centre

The DeLTA Center Roundtable Discussion is an event in which DeLTA 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.

Dr. Choukas-Bradley is an Associate Professor at The University of Pittsburgh in the Department of Psychology

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