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

GPSG Meetings Spring 2026

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Legislative Meeting

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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

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Microsoft Teams: Structure and Manage Your Team (Best Practices)

Wednesday, June 3, 2026 2:00pm to 2:45pm
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...

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2026 US-Thai/US-ASEAN Pharmacy Consortia Meeting

Thursday, June 4 to Friday, June 5, 2026 (all day)
College of Pharmacy Building (CPB)

The UI College of Pharmacy will host the 2026 US-Thai/US-ASEAN Pharmacy Consortia Meeting.

This long-standing collaboration between the United States and Thailand improves pharmacy education and the advancement of pharmacy practice in Thailand. It’s an opportunity for pharmacy faculty, students, practitioners, and others to share best practices and address challenges, such as curriculum differences, to improve health outcomes and strengthen international networks.

For more information: https:/...

REDCap Surveys Training

Thursday, June 4, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This is the third step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will cover survey configuration and distribution such as:

Allowing potential participants to self-initiate participation in your study with public surveys

Manually and automatically sending surveys

Administering electronic consent (e-consent) forms

Controlling survey access with conditional logic and survey login

This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training you will have a basic understanding of surveys in...

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Science Thursdays Blood Drive

Thursday, June 4, 2026 10:00am to 2:00pm
Medical Education Research Facility
The DeGowin Blood Center is hosting a blood drive from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday, June 4th 2026 at the Atrium in MERF
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Boost Skills with LinkedIn Learning

Thursday, June 4, 2026 11:00am to 11:30am
Virtual

LinkedIn Learning is an online training library that provides access to thousands of courses. This session will discuss how to create a learning plan, how to use AI coaching and feedback, as well as certifications that can be obtained for free on the platform.

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2026 US-Thai/US-ASEAN Pharmacy Consortia Meeting

Friday, June 5, 2026 (all day)
College of Pharmacy Building (CPB)

The UI College of Pharmacy will host the 2026 US-Thai/US-ASEAN Pharmacy Consortia Meeting.

This long-standing collaboration between the United States and Thailand improves pharmacy education and the advancement of pharmacy practice in Thailand. It’s an opportunity for pharmacy faculty, students, practitioners, and others to share best practices and address challenges, such as curriculum differences, to improve health outcomes and strengthen international networks.

For more information: https:/...

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Gallery Walk + Art & Write Night

Friday, June 5, 2026 5:00pm to 8:00pm
Old Capitol Museum
A special edition Art & Write Night coincides with the Iowa City Downtown District's Summer Gallery Walk featuring "Thrift Style" exhibit at Old Capitol Museum.
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Art & Write Night

Friday, June 5, 2026 6:00pm to 8:00pm
University of Iowa Museum of Natural History

Join the long, rich, historical tradition of artists creating in our spaces.

Professional, aspiring, and amateur artists alike, make our museum your muse. The return of this popular program series welcomes guests into the Museum of Natural History's magical gallery spaces after-hours to work on sketching or writing projects with other campus and community artists.

Tell a friend, grab a notebook, and join us on the first Friday of each month. We'll provide a new inspo prompt for each session and...

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Public Observing Night - Van Allen Observatory

Friday, June 5, 2026 9:00pm to 11:00pm
Van Allen Hall

Please join the University of Iowa Physics and Astronomy department as we use the Van Allen Observatory and small telescopes to tour the summer 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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National Learn to Row

Saturday, June 6, 2026 8:00am to 11:00am
Beckwith Boathouse
National Learn to Row Day

Women In Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour

Monday, June 8, 2026 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.

REDCap Advanced Training

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This is the fourth step in the REDCap training series. In this training we will cover advanced features such as:

Importing data from a CSV file

Ways to customize your data entry experience with form display logic

Making your forms more dynamic and personalized with context aware smart variables

Sending automated, conditional email alerts

Ensuring data is high quality by executing data quality rules, creating data 'missingness' codes, and opening data queries

Register by clicking the virtual event link...

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Blood Drive @ Riverside Casino

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 12:00pm to 4:00pm
Riverside Casino
The DeGowin Blood Center is hosting a blood drive from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, June 9th 2026 from 12:00 pm to 4pm at the Riverside Casino!
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Microsoft Teams: Working with Files

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Virtual

This course will show you how to edit and share files in Teams chats, meetings, or channels. We will talk about best practices for Team file storage and organization as well as co-authoring files and how to access personal files view. We will discuss how Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive work together from a file storage perspective. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course. To schedule additional Microsoft Teams training for your department...

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Hardin Open Workshops: EMBASE (Zoom)

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Virtual

EMBASE is a biomedical and pharmaceutical database containing bibliographic records with abstracts. Although there is overlap with records from PubMed, there are also many unique records. This hands-on session will show you how to conduct basic searches using EMBASE’s quick search box, how to conduct searches using EMTREE subject headings, and how to use subheadings for drug and disease topics.

PLEASE NOTE

Enrollment in HOW is open to all University of Iowa affiliates and residents of the state of...

Des Moines MSW Info Session

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Virtual

Please join us via Zoom for an info session to learn more about the MSW program in Des Moines at the John and Mary Pappajohn Education Center.

https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/95053466834

Questions? Contact Melanie at melanie-reed@uiowa.edu

Iowa City MSW Info Session

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Virtual
To learn about the MSW program options and specializations available in Iowa City.

REDCap MyCap Training

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This is the fifth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will discuss using the MyCap mobile app for data collection. We will cover features such as:

Creating participants

Creating tasks and schedules

Active tasks and their unique data output

Direct messages and announcements

This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training, you will have a basic understanding of the MyCap mobile app for REDCap.

Register by clicking the virtual event link above or by going here:  https:/...

Out to Lunch in Des Moines

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 11:00am to 1:30pm
Pappajohn Education Center

Des Moines Tippie alumni and friends—join us downtown for lunch!

Wednesday, June 10
11:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
12th Street (Grand to Locust)
Des Moines, IA

The Tippie College of Business is proud to serve as a location sponsor for the Greater Des Moines Partnership's Out to Lunch series. This free, public event offers a fun and welcoming opportunity for downtown employees, residents, and visitors to gather, connect, and enjoy a lively outdoor atmosphere.

We warmly invite Tippie alumni and all University...

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Hardin Open Workshops - PubMed (Zoom)

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Virtual

This hands-on session will help you improve your searching through best practices for basic and advanced searching and show you features for saving or exporting citations. The session will also help you understand medical subject headings (MeSH) and how they improve your search as well as the benefits of a MyNCBI account.

PLEASE NOTE:

Enrollment in HOW is open to all University of Iowa affiliates and residents of the state of Iowa. Advance registration is required for Zoom classes, though walk-ins...

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Microsoft Planner: An Introduction

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Virtual

Microsoft Planner is a task management and collaboration tool that helps you organize and track your projects and teams. Participants will learn how to use Planner to create plans, assign tasks, set deadlines, and monitor progress. Additionally, we will discuss how to integrate a planner board within Microsoft Teams. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this training.

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Iowa City Area Realtors Blood Drive

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 2:00pm to 6:00pm
Education Center
The DeGowin Blood Center is hosting a blood drive from 2 pm to 6pm on Wednesday, June 10th 2026 at the Education Center for the Iowa City Area Realtors
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Microsoft Teams: Webinars

Thursday, June 11, 2026 10:00am to 10:45am
Virtual

Microsoft Teams offers powerful tools for delivering large-scale events--including webinars and town halls. This session provides a step-by-step guide to planning, configuring, and running large events. Participants will learn how to choose the right Teams format, manage presenters and attendees, and apply best practices for smooth, accessible, and interactive experiences.

REDCap Data Handling

Thursday, June 11, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This is the sixth and final step in the REDCap training series. In this training we won't use REDCap at all. Instead, we will cover ways to view and manage your exported REDCap data in Microsoft Excel and Sublime Text such as:

Populating data from one Excel sheet to another with vlookup()

Seeing specific data with column sorting and filtering

Ensuring data is cohesive by creating tables

Looking at how data relates to other data by creating pivot tables

Transforming unusable data to a usable format...

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