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

GPSG Meetings Spring 2026

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Black Box Theater (360 IMU)
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Legislative Meeting

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Legislative Meeting

Black Box Theater (360 IMU)
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Legislative Meeting

Black Box Theater (360 IMU)

GPSG Events

GPSG Ball 2026

The ticket request period has now closed. All attendees who RSVP’d will receive additional details from GPSG soon.

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Events Around Campus

Molecular Medicine Interdisciplinary Program Thesis Defense Seminar: Alexander Glebov-McCloud promotional image

Molecular Medicine Interdisciplinary Program Thesis Defense Seminar: Alexander Glebov-McCloud

Friday, April 17, 2026 1:00pm
Bowen Science Building

Alexander Glebov-McCloud is a PhD candidate in the Biomedical Science (Molecular Medicine) Interdisciplinary Graduate Program. His research has been conducted in Stefan Strack's laboratory.

If you are not able to attend in person, please consider showing your support by attending via Zoom. Please email britt-hokanson@uiowa.edu for the Zoom link.

Environmental Engineering and Science Graduate Seminar

Friday, April 17, 2026 1:30pm to 2:20pm
Seamans Center

Brad Pleima, President of EcoEngineers and Clean Energy Advocate, will be presenting, The Next Climate Economy: Careers, Capital, and Innovation.

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Linguistics Day 2026

Friday, April 17, 2026 1:30pm to 4:00pm
Phillips Hall
Meet faculty, students, and alumni, find out more about our courses and programs, discover recent research projects, and learn about career pathways for linguists.
Colloquium - "Finding Pain Points in Learning with Multimodal Learning Analytics" promotional image

Colloquium - "Finding Pain Points in Learning with Multimodal Learning Analytics"

Friday, April 17, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
We welcome UIowa's Gahyun Callie Sung, Ph.D., who will introduce the emerging field of multimodal learning analytics, and its applications for understanding the student experience in introductory programming and STEM.

Dynamical Systems in Medicine from Biochemistry to Physiology

Friday, April 17, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall

Speaker: Colleen Mitchell, Department of Mathematics

Biology Seminar: "What can Arp2/3-branded actin do for you?" promotional image

Biology Seminar: "What can Arp2/3-branded actin do for you?"

Friday, April 17, 2026 3:30pm
Biology Building East
The Department of Biology’s seminar speaker on Friday, April 17, is James Bear, PhD, a Professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His seminar will be held at 3:30pm in Kollros Auditorium (Room 101), Biology Building East (BBE).

Stress Reliever & Game Night Crossover

Friday, April 17, 2026 3:45pm to 7:00pm
Boyd Law Building

Come unwind and play with student services!

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PDF Fixes for Accessibility

Friday, April 17, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Virtual

This training session will teach you about the pitfalls of PDF files and how to replace or remediate them to help make your materials meet digital accessibility standards. We will learn about the tools we have on campus to help with this process and provide a demo on how to fix PDFs and make your documents better.

Register to attend.

The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and services to optimize teaching and learning through learning sciences research, ICON...

Harper Folsom — "Empty Vessels and Paper Portals" An MFA Thesis Exhibition Reception promotional image

Harper Folsom — "Empty Vessels and Paper Portals" An MFA Thesis Exhibition Reception

Friday, April 17, 2026 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Sacred Collective
Harper Folsom's MFA Thesis Exhibition, "I'll Make It A Home"
Iowa softball vs. Indiana promotional image

Iowa softball vs. Indiana

Friday, April 17, 2026 6:00pm
Pearl Softball Field
The Iowa softball team hosts Indiana.
Iowa baseball vs. Maryland promotional image

Iowa baseball vs. Maryland

Friday, April 17, 2026 6:05pm
Duane Banks Field
The Iowa baseball team hosts Maryland.
Manual Cinema’s The 4th Witch promotional image

Manual Cinema’s The 4th Witch

Friday, April 17, 2026 7:30pm
The Englert
Embrace the shadows to explore themes of grief, war, generational conflict, and cycles of violence.
A History of the Telescope - presented by Gavin Frueh & Jacob Payne; Graduate Students; Department of Physics and Astronomy promotional image

A History of the Telescope - presented by Gavin Frueh & Jacob Payne; Graduate Students; Department of Physics and Astronomy

Friday, April 17, 2026 7:30pm to 8:00pm
Van Allen Hall

Please join us for the Astronomy Public Talk series, where we host short, accessible talks on a wide range of astronomy and physics-related topics—free and open to the public! This event will feature a presentation by UI Physics and Astronomy graduate students Gavin Frueh and Jacob Payne, who will share a brief history of the telescope. A public observing session at the Van Allen Observatory will immediately follow this talk, weather permitting.

Recital: Laura Carrico and Morgan Brantman, Trumpet

Friday, April 17, 2026 8:00pm
Voxman Music Building

Recital: Laura Carrico and Morgan Brantman, Trumpet

This concert is free and open to the public.

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Dance BFA Concert

Friday, April 17, 2026 8:00pm
Space Place Theater

Free and open to the public.

This performance will feature works choreographed by Bachelor of Fine Arts students Evelyn Becker, Madison Burkhart, Ruby Gentzler, Claudia Jacobson, Allyson Meinders, Emily Pyburn, and Lindsey Wildman from the University of Iowa Department of Dance, plus one guest work performed by the BFA students.

Please be advised this performance includes haze and strobe lights.

Approximate run time is 90 minutes, including a 10-minute intermission.

PROGRAM
Practice of Return choreog...

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Uncle Vanya

Friday, April 17, 2026 8:00pm
Theatre Building
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker brings her observational prowess and razor-sharp wit to an intimate adaptation of Chekhov's beloved dark comedy. Written with the “goal of creating a version that sounds to our contemporary American ears the way it sounded to Russian ears during the play’s first productions in the provinces in 1898,” Annie Baker’s Uncle Vanya captures the timeless longing, absurdity, and beauty of human relationships.
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Public Observing Night - Van Allen Observatory

Friday, April 17, 2026 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 spring 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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ASL Immersion Retreat

Saturday, April 18 to Sunday, April 19, 2026 (all day)
YMCA Camp Wapsie
A completely ASL (non-voicing) event with cabin-style camping, bonfires, ziplining, visual games, workshops with CEUs, and Deaf Mentors!
Association of Ancient Historians Meeting 2026 promotional image

Association of Ancient Historians Meeting 2026

Saturday, April 18, 2026 (all day)
University of Iowa
Association of Ancient Historians Meeting 2026 supported by the Department of History, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Obermann Center, and the Perry A. and Helen J. Bond Fund for Interdisciplinary Interaction at the University of Iowa
2026 MIKIW Medicinal Chemistry Conference at the UI College of Pharmacy promotional image

2026 MIKIW Medicinal Chemistry Conference at the UI College of Pharmacy

Saturday, April 18 to Sunday, April 19, 2026 (all day)
College of Pharmacy Building

The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics at the University of Iowa, will host the 63rd Annual Medicinal Chemistry Meeting-in-miniature.

MIKIW is the longest-running and largest regional medicinal chemistry conference in the United States. The meeting integrates over 200 graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty members from the Universities of Minnesota, Illinois at Chicago, Kansas, Iowa and Wisconsin. The two-day, multidisciplinary conference exposes...

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Gala promotional image

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Gala

Saturday, April 18, 2026 (all day)
Asian Pacific American Cultural Center
APAHM Gala
Iowa Human Rights Research Conference promotional image

Iowa Human Rights Research Conference

Saturday, April 18, 2026 (all day)
Grinnell College

The annual Iowa Human Rights Research Conference takes place on Saturday, April 18, 2026, at Grinnell College. The conference is hosted by the Iowa Network of Human Rights Academics and the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights.

The call for student proposals is available at: https://iowahumanrights.org/conference/submit-proposal February 16, 2026, is the deadline for students to submit conference proposals.

Registration details and conference schedule will be updated at: https:/...

2026 Iowa Archeological Society Spring Meeting promotional image

2026 Iowa Archeological Society Spring Meeting

Saturday, April 18, 2026 8:00am to 2:00pm
Matt Cosgrove River’s Edge Discovery Center
This year’s Iowa Archeological Society annual spring meeting will take place in Fort Dodge at the Matt Cosgrove River’s Edge Discovery Center on April 18, 2026 from 8am-2pm.
Charity Benefit Run & Walk (RCLA Jesus Jog) promotional image

Charity Benefit Run & Walk (RCLA Jesus Jog)

Saturday, April 18, 2026 9:00am
City Park
Charity Benefit Run & Walk
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