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

GPSG Meetings Fall 2026

meetings

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)
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

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Fall Undergraduate Research Festival

Wednesday, November 18, 2026 3:30pm to 6:00pm
University Capitol Centre
Fall Undergraduate Research Festival: Wednesday, November 18th, 2026
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Dance Thesis I Concert: Olivia Farmerie

Wednesday, November 18, 2026 7:30pm
Space Place Theater
This performance will feature works choreographed by graduate student Olivia Farmerie from the University of Iowa Department of Dance.
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Iowa Swimming and Diving hosts Hawkeye Invite

Thursday, November 19 to Friday, November 20, 2026 (all day)
Campus Recreation and Wellness Center
Iowa Swimming and Diving hosts the Hawkeye Invite at the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center.

Iowa Trombone Choir

Thursday, November 19, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Iowa Trombone Choir
Omar Elmusa, Andrew Deaver, Zachary Bethel, and Jonathan Allen, conductors.

This concert is free and open to the public.

Concert can be viewed via livestream here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream

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Ethan Simmons-Patterson

Thursday, November 19, 2026 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
A hilarious UI alum returns to the town where he cut his comedic teeth.
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Dance Thesis I Concert: Olivia Farmerie

Thursday, November 19, 2026 7:30pm
Space Place Theater
This performance will feature works choreographed by graduate student Olivia Farmerie from the University of Iowa Department of Dance.
Iowa Swimming and Diving hosts Hawkeye Invite promotional image

Iowa Swimming and Diving hosts Hawkeye Invite

Friday, November 20, 2026 (all day)
Campus Recreation and Wellness Center
Iowa Swimming and Diving hosts the Hawkeye Invite at the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center.
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Theatre Arts Spring Auditions

Friday, November 20, 2026 (all day)
Theatre Building
Theatre Arts' spring auditions for performances are open to anyone, regardless of major!
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Friday Crafternoons

Friday, November 20, 2026 1:00pm to 3:30pm
Stanley Museum of Art

Need a creative break at the end of the week? Swing by the Stanley on Friday afternoons to work on a craft project of your choice.

Bring your own in-progress project or start a new one using the various supplies provided. Try your hand at sketching, coloring, knitting, embroidery, origami, and so much more in a relaxing, low-pressure environment. Stay as long as you like and make new connections. Light snacks will be provided.

Friday Crafternoons occurs almost every Friday at the Stanley Museum of...

Dance Thesis I Concert: Olivia Farmerie promotional image

Dance Thesis I Concert: Olivia Farmerie

Friday, November 20, 2026 7:30pm
Space Place Theater
This performance will feature works choreographed by graduate student Olivia Farmerie from the University of Iowa Department of Dance.
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Drawing Salon with Robert Caputo

Sunday, November 22, 2026 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Stanley Museum of Art

Drawing Salon with Robert Caputo is a monthly workshop held at the museum on Sunday afternoons. It is free to attend and suitable for all skill levels. Registration is required to secure a spot.

Each session focuses on drawing artworks from the museum's collection, led by Iowa City-based artist, Robert Caputo. 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...

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Tippie Virtual Information Session: Full-Time Graduate Programs

Tuesday, November 24, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual
Tippie Virtual Information Session: Full-Time Graduate Programs
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Iowa Football vs. Nebraska

Friday, November 27, 2026 11:00am
Kinnick Stadium
The Iowa football team will host Nebraska at Kinnick Stadium.
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Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop

Sunday, November 29, 2026 2:00pm to 3:45pm
Stanley Museum of Art

Join us monthly to generate new creative writing inspired by works in the Stanley collection. Each session will be led by a different talented writer from our area, who will be offering a new prompt and a new approach to ekphrastic writing (writing inspired by visual art). Bring your own notebook and pencil or computer and leave with the beginning of a newly written piece.

Co-sponsored by Iowa City Poetry. Teen and adult writers in all genres are welcome.

Write at the Stanley meets every fourth...

Clarence Tow Lecture Series in Economics: Roberto Saitto

Monday, November 30, 2026 10:45am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Roberto Saitto is an Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences from Northwestern University.

REDCap Basic Training

Tuesday, December 1, 2026 10:00am to 11:30am
Virtual

This is the first step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will build a new REDCap project from scratch and cover basic features such as:

• Building forms with proper field types and validation
• Assigning user permissions
• Project backup and overview with data dictionary, codebook, pdf, and xml
• Ensuring your project works properly by testing with real world application
• Making mid-study modifications safely after having started data collection in production
• Creating and...

BMB Research Workshop

Tuesday, December 1, 2026 12:30pm to 1:20pm
Medical Education Research Facility

The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology holds research workshops featuring internal speakers on Tuesdays, 12:30-1:20pm. For Fall 2026, these will occur in 1117 MERF. Presentation titles are not publicly available due to the use of unpublished research. Individuals interested in attending workshops or being added to the email list should contact the office at biochem@uiowa.edu.

Aug. 25: open

Sept. 1: open

Sept. 8: open

Sept. 15: Steve Guzman, PhD, Postdoc Fellow, Biomedical Engineering...

Seminar Series: Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Tuesday, December 1, 2026 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Bowen Science Building

Each semester, we are proud to host outstanding seminar speakers. Everyone is encouraged to attend. Visit website: https://microbiology.medicine.uiowa.edu/about-us/seminars

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ICON Quizzes and Respondus Lockdown Browser

Tuesday, December 1, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Virtual
Join us to learn about creating quizzes, tests, and other assessments in ICON that are automatically graded, and how to add the Respondus Lockdown Browser to those assessments that require a higher level of security. 

REDCap Intermediate Training

Wednesday, December 2, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This is the second step in the REDCap training series. In this training we will cover basic and intermediate features such as:
• Outputting data automatically with calculated fields
• Collecting the same data points multiple times with longitudinal and one-to-many data collection
• Standardizing your data to industry standards with ontologies and the REDCap Instrument Library
• Ways to customize your data entry experience with action tags
• Viewing data with reports, dashboards, and charts
• And more

T...

Human Subjects Office Fall 2026 Office Hours

Wednesday, December 2, 2026 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.

REDCap Surveys Training

Thursday, December 3, 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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Stella Cole Quartet

Thursday, December 3, 2026 7:00pm
Hancher Auditorium
A young singer with a timeless style helps us ring in the holidays.
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Dunn Quartet Recital

Thursday, December 3, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Luis Infante Hernandez and Sejin Byun, violins
Jessica Baker, viola
Alejandro Salazar Fernandez, cello

This concert is free and open to the public.

Concert can be viewed via livestream here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream

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