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

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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Late Spring Bird Banding II

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.

The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and services to optimize teaching and...

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Microsoft Teams: An Introduction

Wednesday, May 20, 2026 1:00pm to 2:00pm
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...

Spring 2026 IRB Office Hours

Wednesday, May 20, 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.

Sioux City MSW Info Session

Wednesday, May 20, 2026 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Virtual
To learn about the MSW program options and specializations available in Sioux City.

Spring 2026 IRB Office Hours

Thursday, May 21, 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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Office of Innovation GAP Pitch Competition

Thursday, May 21, 2026 2:00pm to 5:00pm
College of Pharmacy Building
University of Iowa teams pitch pre-company therapeutics and medical device concepts, competing for up to $25,000 in funding.

AI Prompting (Advanced): Elevating your Craft

Thursday, May 21, 2026 3:00pm to 4:00pm
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.
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Generative AI 101: Foundations and Use Cases

Friday, May 22, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual
This introductory training will help participants learn about generative AI in practice
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Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop

Sunday, May 24, 2026 2:30pm to 4:15pm
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...

Introduction to ChatGPT Edu: Key Features and Best Practices

Tuesday, May 26, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual
An introductory training to ChatGPT Edu
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Late Spring Bird Banding III

Wednesday, May 27, 2026 7:30am to 9:30am
Macbride Nature Recreation Area - Falcon Shelter
Early Spring Bird Banding
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Microsoft Teams: Customize with Apps

Wednesday, May 27, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This course will show you how to utilize applications in a channel, meeting, or chat to extend the capabilities of your team. We will talk about using personal applications to help streamline and organize your work within Microsoft Teams. The apps covered in this course include OneNote, Forms, Planner, and Viva Learning. It is recommended that you have some familiarity with Microsoft Teams before taking this course. To schedule additional Microsoft Teams training for your department, team, or...

IRB Insights

Wednesday, May 27, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual
Join us in 2026 for IRB Insights, a monthly lecture series designed to keep researchers informed about new IRB processes, HawkIRB application improvements, and other updates from the UI Human Research Protection Program (HRPP). IRB Insights will typically be on the third Wednesday at noon, replacing the monthly IRB Efficiency Initiative Information session.

Spring 2026 IRB Office Hours

Wednesday, May 27, 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.

Leveraging Microsoft Copilot: How AI Can Assist You

Thursday, May 28, 2026 9:00am to 10:00am
Virtual
An introductory training on Copilot

Spring 2026 IRB Office Hours

Thursday, May 28, 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.

Online Degree Programs Information Session

Thursday, May 28, 2026 12:00pm to 12:29pm
Virtual

Join us for a 30-minute online overview of the Bachelor of Applied Studies (BAS) and Bachelor of Liberal Studies (BLS) online degree programs from the Univeristy of Iowa. You can join from a PC, Mac, iOS, or Android device here: BAS and BLS Information Session Zoom Link

You are welcome to drop-in or register!

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Microsoft Teams: Meetings

Thursday, May 28, 2026 2:00pm to 3:00pm
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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2026 US-Thai/US-ASEAN Pharmacy Consortia Meeting

Tuesday, June 2 to Friday, June 5, 2026 (all day)
College of Pharmacy Building (CPB)

The UI College of Pharmacy will host the 2026 US-Thai/US-ASEAN Pharmacy Consortia Meeting.

This long-standing collaboration between the United States and Thailand improves pharmacy education and the advancement of pharmacy practice in Thailand. It’s an opportunity for pharmacy faculty, students, practitioners, and others to share best practices and address challenges, such as curriculum differences, to improve health outcomes and strengthen international networks.

For more information: https:/...

REDCap Basic Training

Tuesday, June 2, 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...

Bachelor of Arts in Social Work Info Session

Tuesday, June 2, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Virtual

Please join us via Zoom for an info session to learn more about earning a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work degree.

https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/96938044127

Contact our Admissions Office directly with any questions or requests.

ssw-admissions@uiowa.edu

319-335-1250

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