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

GPSG Meetings Fall 2025

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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

There are no upcoming GPSG events at this time. 

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Events Around Campus

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Virtual Editorial Session with Mark Simpson-Vos

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual

Working on a book proposal? Starting to turn your dissertation into a book? Have questions about the academic publishing industry? Join us for one of two “ask-an-editor-anything” sessions with former Obermann Editor-in-Residence Mark Simpson-Vos.

Wednesday, December 3 from 12-1pm and 4-5pm (on Zoom).

Space is limited, RSVP required. RSVP here: https://obermann.uiowa.edu/MSV-virtual

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Departmental Brown Bag: Midha Ahmad

Wednesday, December 3, 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.

Midha Ahmad is a Graduate Student in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Midha is in the Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience training area and is a member of the Blumberg Lab.

Title and abstract to come

Departmental Brown Bag

Wednesday, December 3, 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.

Current Event Discussion Group

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 12:45pm to 1:45pm
Boyd Law Building
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Microsoft Teams: Meetings

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 1:00pm to 1:45pm
Virtual

This course is designed for users who would like to gain a better understanding about one of the key collaboration tools within Microsoft Teams — meetings. We will cover scheduling a meeting, as well as how to use the controls and features available during the meeting, such as breakout rooms. After the meeting is over, we will teach you how to access recordings, in-meeting chat, notes, and files. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course. To...

AI Prompting (Beginner): Crafting the Basics

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Virtual
Through hands-on practice and interactive exercises, attendees will apply promoting strategies in real-time with guidance and feedback.

Fall 2025 IRB Office Hours

Wednesday, December 3, 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
Astrophysics & Space Physics Seminar - John Silva; Physics & Astronomy, University of Iowa promotional image

Astrophysics & Space Physics Seminar - John Silva; Physics & Astronomy, University of Iowa

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Van Allen Hall
Astrophysics & Space Physics Seminar
Virtual Editorial Session with Mark Simpson-Vos promotional image

Virtual Editorial Session with Mark Simpson-Vos

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Virtual

Working on a book proposal? Starting to turn your dissertation into a book? Have questions about the academic publishing industry? Join us for one of two “ask-an-editor-anything” sessions with former Obermann Editor-in-Residence Mark Simpson-Vos.

Wednesday, December 3 from 12-1pm and 4-5pm (on Zoom).

Space is limited, RSVP required. RSVP here: https://obermann.uiowa.edu/MSV-virtual

Sociality, Archives, & Sundries: an ENGL:6601 Graduate Student Conference promotional image

Sociality, Archives, & Sundries: an ENGL:6601 Graduate Student Conference

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 5:00pm to 7:30pm
English-Philosophy Building
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Success, Not Excess

Wednesday, December 3, 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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Lab Chamber Orchestra

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Lab Chamber Orchestra

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

This concert is free and open to the public.

Canceled
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Rival Against Hunger 2025

Thursday, December 4 to Friday, December 5, 2025 (all day)
Levitt Center for University Advancement
Rival Against Hunger is a friendly food drive competition between the University of Iowa, Iowa State University, and the University of Northern Iowa.

Fall 2025 IRB Office Hours

Thursday, December 4, 2025 10:00am to 12:00pm
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 necessary. First come, first served.
Neuroscience & Pharmacology Workshop - Bertha Martin, PhD & Budhaditya Basu, PhD promotional image

Neuroscience & Pharmacology Workshop - Bertha Martin, PhD & Budhaditya Basu, PhD

Thursday, December 4, 2025 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Medical Education Research Facility

Molecular and Spatial Characterization of Caudal Raphe Cell Types

Bertha Martin, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Dr. Jon Resch's Lab

Impact of tau pathology on learning-induced gene expression: A spatial transcriptomics approach

Budhaditya Basu, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Dr. Snehajyoti Chatterjee's Lab

Christian Legal Society Weekly Meeting

Thursday, December 4, 2025 12:45pm to 1:44pm
Boyd Law Building

This is the Christian Legal Society Weekly Meeting!

Designing Aligned Assessments in Experiential Education

Thursday, December 4, 2025 1:00pm to 3:00pm
University Capitol Centre
This event will feature a hands-on session focused on exploring, designing, and discussing assessments in experiential education. The retreat is a collaborative effort between the Center for Teaching and the Pomerantz Career Center, and we’re excited to facilitate meaningful conversations and practical engagement around this important topic.
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DeLTA Center Colloquium: Wilma Bainbridge

Thursday, December 4, 2025 3:30pm to 5:00pm
University Capitol Centre

Dr. Bainbridge is an Associate Professor at The University of Chicago in the Department of Psychology

Interests: the intrinsic memorability of images; multi-modal approaches to memorability/memory; intersection of perception and memory; the visual content of long-term memories; neuroscience of memory; computational techniques: machine learning, computer vision; deep neural networks

Presentation title and abstract to come.

Wilma’s Bio Page: https://psychology.uchicago.edu/directory/wilma-bainbridge

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Developing Intelligent Automation for Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing Systems

Thursday, December 4, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Seamans Center

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering - Grad Seminar

PRESENTATION: The current manufacturing paradigm is shifting toward production systems that demand significantly greater flexibility and adaptability. To achieve this objective, new system-level control strategies must be developed to control and coordinate different components on the shop floor. In this talk, I will present our recent approaches to enhance flexibility and adaptability of manufacturing systems across multiple layers of automation. I...

Astrophysics & Space Physics Seminar - Shannon Hill, PhD; Physics & Astronomy, University of Iowa promotional image

Astrophysics & Space Physics Seminar - Shannon Hill, PhD; Physics & Astronomy, University of Iowa

Thursday, December 4, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Van Allen Hall
Astrophysics & Space Physics Seminar
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ISE 5000 GRADUATE SEMINAR --DR. Franklin Dexter

Thursday, December 4, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Seamans Center

Join us in welcoming Franklin Dexter, a Professor in the Department of Anesthesia at the University of Iowa, to the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Graduate Seminar. Dr. Dexter will present his seminar titled "Analytics of daily performance evaluations of experienced professional workers."

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Curator Guided Tour of ‘Paper Engineering in Art, Science, and Education’

Thursday, December 4, 2025 4:00pm to 5:00pm
University of Iowa Main Library
Join co-curators Giselle Simón, Elizabeth Yale, and Damien Ihrig for a special guided tour of their exhibition.
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Heard It through the Grapevine: The UI and HBCU Connection

Thursday, December 4, 2025 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Stanley Museum of Art
This program invites alumni from creative fields and scholars to discuss Iowa’s impact on the education and professional lives of Black alumni, and the education of Black artists in general.
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"Can We Talk?" with Penn Badgley and Dr. Nura Mowzoon

Thursday, December 4, 2025 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)
Join us for a lecture with actor Penn Badgley and psychotherapist Dr. Nura Mowzoon about the relationship between media and social science.
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