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

Black Box Theater (360 IMU)
meetings

Legislative Meeting

Black Box Theater (360 IMU)
meetings

Legislative Meeting

Black Box Theater (360 IMU)
meetings

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

Joint Honors Recital: Lydia Maier and Haleena Thompson, Organ

Wednesday, May 13, 2026 5:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Joint Honors Recital: Lydia Maier and Haleena Thompson, Organ

Lydia Maier - Organ
Haleena Thompson - Organ

This concert is free and open to the public.

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Study at the Stanley

Thursday, May 14, 2026 10:00am to 3:59pm
Stanley Museum of Art

Make the Stanley your study spot for finals week. We'll have free coffee, lemonade, punch, 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.

REDCap Data Handling

Thursday, May 14, 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...

Spring 2026 IRB Office Hours

Thursday, May 14, 2026 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.
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Microsoft Teams: Webinars

Thursday, May 14, 2026 1:00pm to 1:45pm
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.

Online MSW Info Session

Thursday, May 14, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Virtual

Please join us via Zoom for an info session to learn more about the online MSW program.

https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/91760640877

Questions? Contact Lauren at ssw-admissions@uiowa.edu

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Black Graduation

Friday, May 15, 2026 (all day)
Afro American Cultural Center
Black Graduation
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Latinx Graduation

Friday, May 15, 2026 (all day)
Latino Native American Cultural Center
Latinx Graduation
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Pictures on the Pentacrest

Friday, May 15, 2026 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Pentacrest
Pictures on the Pentacrest
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Public Observing Night - Van Allen Observatory

Friday, May 15, 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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Pictures on the Pentacrest

Saturday, May 16, 2026 11:00am to 4:00pm
Pentacrest
Pictures on the Pentacrest
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Drawing Salon with Robert Caputo

Sunday, May 17, 2026 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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Iowa MBA Commencement Ceremony

Sunday, May 17, 2026 4:00pm
Carver-Hawkeye Arena

Doors open one hour prior to the start of the ceremony. No tickets required.

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The Wallace Research Symposium on Talent Development

Monday, May 18 to Wednesday, May 20, 2026 (all day)
Graduate Iowa City
The Wallace Research Symposium on Talent Development provides an opportunity for researchers from around the world to present their current work on talent development, creativity, and advanced education and serves as a catalyst for innovative programming and policy.

Clarence Tow Economics Theory Mini Conference: Information Economics

Monday, May 18, 2026 8:00am to 5:30pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Big Ten Neuroscience Seminar

Monday, May 18, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual
Neuroscience presentations (virtual) hosted by Big Ten Academic Alliance members
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The Wallace Research Symposium on Talent Development

Tuesday, May 19 to Wednesday, May 20, 2026 (all day)
Graduate Iowa City
The Wallace Research Symposium on Talent Development provides an opportunity for researchers from around the world to present their current work on talent development, creativity, and advanced education and serves as a catalyst for innovative programming and policy.
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Microsoft Planner: An Introduction

Tuesday, May 19, 2026 11:00am to 12:00pm
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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Food Truck Tuesdays at the Iowa Research Park

Tuesday, May 19, 2026 11:30am to 1:30pm
UI Bioventures Center
Food Truck Tuesdays feature a rotating lineup of local food trucks on the third Tuesday of each month, May through October, at the BioVentures Center.
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The Wallace Research Symposium on Talent Development

Wednesday, May 20, 2026 (all day)
Graduate Iowa City
The Wallace Research Symposium on Talent Development provides an opportunity for researchers from around the world to present their current work on talent development, creativity, and advanced education and serves as a catalyst for innovative programming and policy.
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Late Spring Bird Banding

Wednesday, May 20, 2026 7:30am to 9:30am
Macbride Nature Recreation Area - Falcon Shelter
Early Spring Bird Banding
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AI Prompting (Beginner): Crafting the Basics

Wednesday, May 20, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual
Through hands-on practice and interactive exercises, attendees will apply promoting strategies in real-time with guidance and feedback.
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Maximizing Pivot to Find Funding and Collaborators (May 2026)

Wednesday, May 20, 2026 11:00am to 12:00pm
Hardin Library for Health Sciences

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 room location upon registration.

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LaTeX Accessibility with MathJax and Pressbooks

Wednesday, May 20, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual

LaTeX markup language is an efficient and powerful way to prepare mathematical equations and formulae to share with others, but PDF outputs of LaTeX don't meet important accessibility standards. This training will demonstrate how to transform your LaTeX files into HTML, use MathJax to make them more accessible, and share them with others in the Pressbooks platform.

Register for event.

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