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

There are no upcoming GPSG events at this time. 

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Events Around Campus

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Neuroscience and Pharmacology Seminar - Vadim Bolshakov, PhD

Tuesday, December 16, 2025 10:30am to 11:30am
Bowen Science Building

Neuropeptide-mediated gating of innate fear circuits

Vadim Bolshakov, PhD
Professor, Harvard Medical School
Director, Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory, McLean Hospital

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Microsoft Teams: Get Started with Teams Phone

Tuesday, December 16, 2025 11:00am to 11:30am
Virtual

The University of Iowa is currently in the process of migrating from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams for telephony services. This course will show you how to place calls, transfer calls, set up voicemail, assign delegates, and more.

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Tippie Lunch & Learn Webinar | Tax Trends & Strategies for 2026: What Businesses Need to Know

Tuesday, December 16, 2025 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual

From sweeping legislative changes to crypto enforcement and global tax complexity, the world of taxation is evolving fast. As the year comes to a close, understanding how these shifts impact business decisions is more critical than ever.

In this insightful session, Tippie tax professors Jaron Wilde and Ryan Wilson break down what’s on the horizon — including key provisions of the Big Beautiful Bill (OB3), how the IRS is approaching digital assets like crypto, and what global trends mean for...

Seminar Series: Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Tuesday, December 16, 2025 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Bowen Science Building

Each semester, we are proud to host outstanding seminar speakers. Everyone is encouraged to attend.

REDCap MyCap Training

Wednesday, December 17, 2025 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...

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Study at the Stanley

Wednesday, December 17, 2025 10:00am to 3:59pm
Stanley Museum of Art

Make the Stanley your study spot for finals week. We'll have free cocoa, coffee, cider, and snacks available all day Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (10 a.m.–4 p.m.).

Stop by for a few hours to study for your exams: grab a snack, replenish your study supplies (we'll have post its, highlighters, and more) and take a quick break — either by exploring the galleries or playing with a fidget toy.

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Craft Pop-up: Make a Winter Card

Wednesday, December 17, 2025 11:00am to 2:00pm
University of Iowa Main Library
Take a break and de-stress from final exams by dropping in to the Main Library’s winter card-making station.

IRB Efficiency Initiative Information Session

Wednesday, December 17, 2025 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual
The Human Subjects Office invites the UI research community to attend monthly information sessions about the IRB Efficiency Initiative on the fourth Wednesday of the month, from 12-1 pm.

AI Prompting (Advanced): Elevating your Craft

Wednesday, December 17, 2025 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Virtual
Designed for users who already understand the basics, this session dives deeper into prompt engineering techniques to generate more precise, creative, and impactful generative artificial intelligence responses.

Fall 2025 IRB Office Hours

Wednesday, December 17, 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
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Microsoft Loop: Get Started with Loop

Wednesday, December 17, 2025 2:00pm to 2:45pm
Virtual

Microsoft Loop is a transformative co-creation experience that brings together teams, content, and tasks across your tools and devices. This training will introduce you to Loop workspaces, which can be used as a note-taking tool or to manage projects. Additionally, we will discuss how you can integrate a Loop workspace into a team in Microsoft Teams. While this is a Microsoft Loop training, it is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before attending this session.

Fall 2025 IRB Office Hours

Thursday, December 18, 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.
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Study at the Stanley

Thursday, December 18, 2025 10:00am to 3:59pm
Stanley Museum of Art

Make the Stanley your study spot for finals week. We'll have free cocoa, coffee, cider, and snacks available all day Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (10 a.m.–4 p.m.).

Stop by for a few hours to study for your exams: grab a snack, replenish your study supplies (we'll have post its, highlighters, and more) and take a quick break — either by exploring the galleries or playing with a fidget toy.

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Boost Skills with LinkedIn Learning

Thursday, December 18, 2025 10:00am to 10:30am
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.

REDCap Data Handling

Thursday, December 18, 2025 10:00am to 11:59pm
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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Celebrating Graduates: Pictures on the Pentacrest

Saturday, December 20, 2025 10:30am to 12:30pm
University of Iowa Pentacrest

Graduates and their families are invited to stop by the UI Center for Advancement tent for free professional photos, giveaways, and hot cocoa.

This event is weather permitting.

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Celebrating Graduates: Pictures on the Pentacrest

Sunday, December 21, 2025 9:30am to 12:00pm
University of Iowa Pentacrest

Graduates and their families are invited to stop by the UI Center for Advancement tent for free professional photos, giveaways, and hot cocoa. **This event is weather permitting.

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Drawing Salon with Robert Caputo

Sunday, December 21, 2025 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Stanley Museum of Art

The Drawing Salon focuses on drawing artworks from the museum's collection. Each session will focus on a different artwork. The sessions will begin with an introduction and discussion of the selected work. Participants will be encouraged to pursue their own visions and to take inspiration from the artworks in the gallery.

Pencils and sketchbooks/paper are the only artmaking materials allowed in the galleries. The museum has golf pencils with erasers and clipboards for participants to use. Stools...

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Microsoft Teams: Meetings

Monday, December 22, 2025 11:00am to 11:45am
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...

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Women's basketball vs. Penn State

Sunday, December 28, 2025 3:00pm
Carver-Hawkeye Arena
The Iowa women's basketball team hosts Penn State.
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Men's basketball vs. UMass Lowell

Monday, December 29, 2025 4:00pm
Carver-Hawkeye Arena
The Iowa men's basketball team hosts UMass Lowell.
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Microsoft Teams: An Introduction

Tuesday, December 30, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This introductory course will give you a high-level overview of how to utilize Microsoft Teams and the tools within to collaborate and communicate with a work group, a project team, or any assortment of people. Topics covered include navigation, settings, chat, communicating in a team, and more. This course is designed for first-time users of Teams and those who would like to ensure they are getting the most out of this organizational tool. To schedule additional Microsoft Teams training for...

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Women's basketball vs. Nebraska

Thursday, January 1, 2026 1:00pm
Carver-Hawkeye Arena
The Iowa women's basketball team hosts Nebraska.
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Men's basketball vs. UCLA

Saturday, January 3, 2026 5:00pm
Carver-Hawkeye Arena
The Iowa men's basketball team hosts UCLA.
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