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

GPSG Meetings Spring 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)

GPSG Events

GPSG Ball 2026

Tickets open on March 1, 2026

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Events Around Campus

Leveraging Microsoft Copilot: How AI Can Assist You

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Virtual
An introductory training on Copilot
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The Year Between

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Theatre Building
Written and directed by Randy Jackson-Alvarenga
Part of Iowa New Play Festival – Reading Series
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Iowa baseball vs. St. Thomas

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 6:05pm
Duane Banks Field
The Iowa baseball team hosts St. Thomas.
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UI Monthly Jazz Jam

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Tavern Blue
Jazz Studies faculty members host a monthly community jazz jam session
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5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music - A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 4: Structure

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music - A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 4: Structure

Professor Matthew Arndt emcees the fourth presentation in this series of intergalactic music poetics. Drawing together ancient wisdom and modern science, this poetics aims at transmuting one’s experience of everything as music and living joyfully even as we work confidently toward an abundant future.

Tyler Hagy, conductor
City High Concert Choir

This concert is free and open to the public.

Iowa Trombone Choir

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Iowa Trombone Choir

This concert is free and open to the public.

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Iowa New Play Festival

Wednesday, May 6 to Friday, May 8, 2026 (all day)
Theatre Building
We are thrilled to present our annual Iowa New Play Festival in the Theatre Building featuring full productions written by MFA playwrights. Plus, there are readings daily from new, full plays written by MFA and undergraduate playwrights.
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Study Hall

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 10:00am to 12:00pm
University of Iowa Museum of Natural History
The Museum of Natural History welcomes students each week for a study session in our galleries. We'll provide the snacks, cushions, and ambiance. You bring your planners, textbooks, or assignments. Together, we'll stay ahead of our goals this semester.

REDCap Intermediate Training

Wednesday, May 6, 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

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Microsoft Loop: Get Started with Loop

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 11:00am to 11:45am
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 notetaking 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.

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Lucia

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 1:30pm to 3:30pm
Theatre Building
By Emily Kaufman-Bell
Directed by Kayla Adams
Part of Iowa New Play Festival – Reading Series

Spring 2026 IRB Office Hours

Wednesday, May 6, 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.
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Microsoft Loop: Get Started with Loop

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 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 notetaking 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.

Introduction to ChatGPT Edu: Key Features and Best Practices

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Virtual
An introductory training to ChatGPT Edu

Ida Beam Residency: Stefon Harris "Harmony cloud"

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 3:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Ida Beam Residency: Stefon Harris "Harmony cloud"

A guided tour and practicum with Ida Beam residency artist Stefon Harris in the use of his revolutionary new music app "Harmony Cloud".

This event is free and open to the public

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Conflict and Resolution — An Obermann "Wide Lens" Event

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Voxman Music Building

The Obermann Center's Wide Lens series aims to inspire and connect the University of Iowa community across the disciplines. For each Wide Lens event, researchers, scholars, and artists from across the university briefly present their work on a shared topic of interest PechaKucha–style. Then, we open the floor to questions and conviviality over hors d'oeuvres and drinks.

Presenters:

Stephanie DiPietro, Sociology & Criminology: Only the Dead Have Seen the End of War: Life Course Legacies of Conflict...

Honors Recital: Emily Davisdon, saxophone

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 5:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Honors Recital: Emily Davisdon, saxophone

This concert is free and open to the public.

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Selections from the Undergraduate Playwrights Workshop

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Theatre Building
Selections from the Undergraduate Playwrights Workshop
Part of Iowa New Play Festival – Reading Series

DMA III: Hyewon Lee, piano

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

DMA III: Hyewon Lee, piano

Theresa Rukavina, violin

This concert is free and open to the public.

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University Band

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

University Band

This 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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Iowa New Play Festival

Thursday, May 7 to Friday, May 8, 2026 (all day)
Theatre Building
We are thrilled to present our annual Iowa New Play Festival in the Theatre Building featuring full productions written by MFA playwrights. Plus, there are readings daily from new, full plays written by MFA and undergraduate playwrights.

REDCap Surveys Training

Thursday, May 7, 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...

Spring 2026 IRB Office Hours

Thursday, May 7, 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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Course Accessibility For Everyone (CAFÉ): Full Blend

Thursday, May 7, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual

Course Accessibility for Everyone (CAFÉ) will help you make your ICON course site accessible to all your students. We'll focus on how to improve usage of headings, tables, color contrast, alternative text, and more. By making these simple changes to your ICON site, you're making your course accessible for everyone.

This offering combines content from previous CAFÉ sessions into a single extended session.

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