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

GPSG Meetings Fall 2025

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Events Around Campus

November AI Monthly User Group

Thursday, November 13, 2025 9:00am to 10:00am
Virtual
We invite you to explore the world of AI with us. Join our monthly AI User Group, a welcoming space for all AI enthusiasts, from beginners to experts, to inspire, educate, and foster a community. Each session will feature presentations on various topics, including ongoing projects for various AI Committees, tips from AI experts on using specific AI tools, and panel discussions on diverse AI-related subjects. The sessions will conclude with a roundtable for open discussion and questions. If you...

Fall 2025 IRB Office Hours

Thursday, November 13, 2025 10:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual
HSO Staff will be available to:Answer questions about conducting human subjects research.Provide guidance and answer questions about the electronic application forms in the HawkIRB system.Provide suggestions and guidance about study procedures that are in compliance with federal regulations and the UI IRB policies.Provide guidance and answer questions about the submission of industry-initiated and industry-sponsored research projects to an external/commercial or central IRB
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Meet The Professors

Thursday, November 13, 2025 10:00am to 10:30am
Virtual
Join us for a live Zoom information session, focused on special topics that you may be curious to learn more about. This session has a focus area and will not cover more general program information. If you haven’t already attended a general information session, we strongly recommend you consider registering to get caught up on all the basics.In this info session we will be joined by professors that teach our full-time programs, get to know them and what to expect in a graduate level class...

REDCap Data Handling

Thursday, November 13, 2025 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...

Christian Legal Society Weekly Meeting

Thursday, November 13, 2025 12:00pm to 12:59pm
Boyd Law Building
This is the Christian Legal Society Weekly Meeting!

Story Lab Showcase Prep (MERGE)

Thursday, November 13, 2025 3:00pm to 5:00pm
MERGE
In preparation for the November 14th Story Lab Showcase at MERGE, we will practice stories on-site in the space the afternoon prior. Questions? Contact Nick Westergaard at nick-westergaard@uiowa.edu.
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DeLTA Center Colloquium: Kaya de Barbaro

Thursday, November 13, 2025 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Gilmore Hall
Dr. de Barbaro is an Associate Professor of Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin.Interests: behavior, social interactions, development, dynamical systems theory, mobile sensing, machine learning, and mental healthPresentation title and abstract to come.Kaya’s Bio Page: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/psychology/faculty/kd26254
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Night at the Museum: Chill & Create

Thursday, November 13, 2025 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Stanley Museum of Art
Join us for our next installment of Night at the Museum, a series of monthly events for UI students that occurs on Thursday nights when the museum is open late.This month, our session is aimed at helping students destress around midterms by making and viewing art. To do this, we're teaming up with Dana Keeton, a local artist, art therapist and mental health counselor.All night in the lobby, we'll have snacks and art materials provided for creative mask making. Dana will take interested students...
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Iowa Volleyball vs. Northwestern

Thursday, November 13, 2025 6:00pm
Xtream Arena
The Iowa volleyball team will host Northwestern.

Horn Studio Recital

Thursday, November 13, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Horn Studio RecitalThis concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.This concert is free and open to the public.
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GOOD THINGS: An Evening with Samin Nosrat

Thursday, November 13, 2025 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
Part of Hancher's 53rd seasonSamin Nosrat, champion of the home cook, connects food and community with her new book GOOD THINGS.Spend an uplifting evening with Samin Nosrat as she discusses her new book, Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love–the eagerly awaited follow-up to Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, scheduled to release in September 2025. Samin will share stories around the inspiration for the cookbook, her development and selection of the recipes, and the culinary rituals...
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Argonautika

Thursday, November 13, 2025 8:00pm
Theatre Building
Written by Mary Zimmerman Adapted from The Voyage of Jason and the Argonauts Gaius Valerius Flaccus Translated by David R. Slavitt Apollonius Rhodius Translated by Peter Green Directed by Josh Turner Sing in us, Muse, the story of Jason and his Argonauts, how he was sent away on the first voyage of the world to bring back the Golden Fleece. An epic story of heroes and monsters, of enchanted islands and vengeful gods, where danger looms at every turn --- from savage kings and sea beasts to a...
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DeLTA Center Roundtable Discussion: Kaya de Barbaro

Friday, November 14, 2025 9:00am to 10:20am
Lindquist Center
The DeLTA Center Roundtable Discussion is an event that expands the interdisciplinary research community by promoting reciprocal interactions between basic and applied researchers. These events showcase presenters from a wide variety of academic disciplines and an open discussion about implications of the presenter's ideas across fields of study and research.Dr. de Barbaro is an Associate Professor of Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin.Interests: behavior, social interactions...
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ICON Day 2025

Friday, November 14, 2025 9:00am to 3:00pm
Grand Ballroom in the Hilton Garden Inn
Join the Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology for ICON Day 2025. Jeffrey Kontio, EdD, will deliver the keynote, "What You Do Matters: Designing for Real Access in Real Classrooms," focusing on the role of instructors and instructional designers in creating engaging learning environments while helping to frame accessibility as something that benefits all. Register by Monday, Nov. 3, to attend ICON Day 2025.Kontio is a digital accessibility expert, lecturer in the School of Communication...

Story Lab Fall Showcase

Friday, November 14, 2025 11:30am to 1:00pm
MERGE
Join us for lunch and stories around a theme to be announced soon! This free, open-to-all event includes a tasty meal and a chance to hear powerful stories from Tippie students. Connect and network with faculty, staff, alumni, and local business leaders at the Story Lab end-of-semester showcase.Presented by the Tippie Leadership Collaborative—come for the food, stay for the stories and connections!

Founding Mothers Support Group

Friday, November 14, 2025 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Boyd Law Building
This support group is led by Social Worker Sam for any student enrolled at Iowa Law who wishes to explore gender dynamics in law school and in the legal field. The invitation is to come together to share, process, and support each other. There is no long-term commitment and no need to attend consistently. If you are interested in attending, please email Social Worker Sam to receive and review a copy of the group’s Constitution before attending. All attendees must sign the group’s Constitution to...
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The Mini Series: Being a TA

Friday, November 14, 2025 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Pomerantz Center
This event is an opportunity for any student interested in our full-time programs to have a chance to hear from our student ambassadors, who are current Tippie full-time graduate students, what it is like being a teaching assistant. In the first half of the event, there will be presentation led by our student ambassadors with the opportunity for a Q&A. The second half will be dedicated to mingling with light bites provided. This will be an Open House style event, so you can attend the whole...

Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Program Thesis Defense Seminar: Gage Liddiard

Friday, November 14, 2025 1:00pm
Medical Education Research Facility
Gage Liddiard is a PhD candidate in the Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Graduate Program, as well as a student in the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP). His research has been with the Dr. Joseph Glykys lab.If you are unable to attend in person, please consider showing your support and attending via Zoom. Please email britt-hokanson@uiowa.edu for the zoom link.
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Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye

Friday, November 14, 2025 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
Part of Mic Check Poetry FestPart of Club HancherPart of Hancher's 53rd seasonPresented in collaboration with Mic Check Poetry Fest and Iowa City PoetryA beautiful friendship of two spoken word masters made even better by each other.Their origin story is a tale of unbelievable coincidences and unshakeable camaraderie—and they tell that story with their trademark trading of lines. Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye are two exceptional spoken word artists whose collaboration is greater than the sum of its...

Improvisation Summit: Tracteur Hammer & Board of Regents

Friday, November 14, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Improvisation Summit: Tracteur Hammer & Board of RegentsBoard of RegentsRitwik Banerji, tenor sax & no-input mixerJean-François Charles, clarinets & electronicsWill Yager, bassTracteur HammerHunter Diamond, tenor saxophone & electronicsFlorian Nastorg, baritone saxophoneYoram Rosilio, double bassMikel Patrick Avery, drumsThis concert is free and open to the public.
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Argonautika

Friday, November 14, 2025 8:00pm
Theatre Building
Written by Mary Zimmerman Adapted from The Voyage of Jason and the Argonauts Gaius Valerius Flaccus Translated by David R. Slavitt Apollonius Rhodius Translated by Peter Green Directed by Josh Turner Sing in us, Muse, the story of Jason and his Argonauts, how he was sent away on the first voyage of the world to bring back the Golden Fleece. An epic story of heroes and monsters, of enchanted islands and vengeful gods, where danger looms at every turn --- from savage kings and sea beasts to a...
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Minnesota Orchestra

Saturday, November 15, 2025 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
With Thomas Søndergård, Music Director, and Benjamin Beilman, ViolinPart of Hancher's 53rd seasonRekindling a deep relationship with an outstanding orchestra that began in 1909.No ensemble has visited the University of Iowa more often than the Grammy Award-winning Minnesota Orchestra—but it’s been 43 years since the ensemble’s last performance on campus. We are delighted to welcome them back under the baton of Thomas Søndergård for a concert featuring violinist Benjamin Beilman, an adventuresome...
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Argonautika

Saturday, November 15, 2025 8:00pm
Theatre Building
Written by Mary Zimmerman Adapted from The Voyage of Jason and the Argonauts Gaius Valerius Flaccus Translated by David R. Slavitt Apollonius Rhodius Translated by Peter Green Directed by Josh Turner Sing in us, Muse, the story of Jason and his Argonauts, how he was sent away on the first voyage of the world to bring back the Golden Fleece. An epic story of heroes and monsters, of enchanted islands and vengeful gods, where danger looms at every turn --- from savage kings and sea beasts to a...
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Iowa Volleyball vs. Minnesota

Sunday, November 16, 2025 2:00pm
Xtream Arena
The Iowa volleyball team will host Minnesota.
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