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.

Follow us on Instagram (uiowagpsg) for the latest updates!

Events Around Campus

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Uncle Vanya

Saturday, April 25, 2026 8:00pm
Theatre Building
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker brings her observational prowess and razor-sharp wit to an intimate adaptation of Chekhov's beloved dark comedy. Written with the “goal of creating a version that sounds to our contemporary American ears the way it sounded to Russian ears during the play’s first productions in the provinces in 1898,” Annie Baker’s Uncle Vanya captures the timeless longing, absurdity, and beauty of human relationships.
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Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival

Sunday, April 26, 2026 (all day)
Adler Journalism and Mass Communication Building
The Iowa City International Film Festival is a student-run experimental film festival hosted in Iowa City.

Recital: Shaun Everson, percussion

Sunday, April 26, 2026 1:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Recital: Shaun Everson, percussion

This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.

This concert is free and open to the public.

Senior Recital: Isabella Anderson, flute

Sunday, April 26, 2026 1:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Senior Recital: Isabella Anderson, flute

This concert is free and open to the public.

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Hohenadel Recital

Sunday, April 26, 2026 2:00pm
Theatre Building

Honors Recital by Bella Hohenadel

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Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop

Sunday, April 26, 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...

Master Recital: Ryan Banks, trumpet

Sunday, April 26, 2026 3:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Master Recital: Ryan Banks, trumpet

Event will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream

This concert is free and open to the public.

MA Recital: John Thomas Morris, piano

Sunday, April 26, 2026 5:30pm
Voxman Music Building

MA Recital: John Thomas Morris, piano

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

This event is free and open to the public

Senior Recital: Sara Sample, clarinet

Sunday, April 26, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Senior Recital: Sara Sample, clarinet

This concert is free and open to the public.

MA Recital: Jessica Baker, violin, and Nicklas Hull, piano

Sunday, April 26, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

MA Recital: Jessica Baker, violin, and Nicklas Hull, piano

Jessica Baker, violin
Nicklas Hull, piano

This concert is free and open to the public.

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Composers Workshop IV

Sunday, April 26, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

This concert is free and open to the public.

The Center for New Music will premiere new works by University of Iowa student composers.

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

It's all part of #NewWorkCity, the spring initiative by #PerformingArtsAtIowa to highlight new work created by our talented graduate students in the performing arts. Join us as we celebrate one part of the full range of creative work happening at the University of Iowa...

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The Last Rodeo — An MFA Group Exhibition

Monday, April 27 to Wednesday, May 6, 2026 (all day)
North Hall

The Last Rodeo

Featuring a collection of work by:

Poojana Prasanna, Louisa Eastley, Paige Wilkinson, Clara Reynen, Harper Folsom

The University of Iowa Center for the Book

Spring 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition

Please join us for a celebratory reception! Friday, May 8th from 4:30pm – 6pm with remarks at 5:15 pm

K. K. Merker Gallery Ground Floor of North Hall – 20 West Davenport Street

Big Ten Neuroscience Seminar

Monday, April 27, 2026 11:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual
Neuroscience presentations (virtual) hosted by Big Ten Academic Alliance members

Spring 2026 Basic Self-Defense Course

Monday, April 27, 2026 5:00pm to 9:00pm
University Capitol Centre
Spring 2026 Women's Basic Self-Defense Course
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Concert Band

Monday, April 27, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Concert Band

This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.

This concert is free and open to the public.

MA Recital: Katie Forbush, cello

Monday, April 27, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

MA Recital: Katie Forbush, cello

Solo cello, and piano

This concert is free and open to the public.

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The Last Rodeo — An MFA Group Exhibition

Tuesday, April 28 to Wednesday, May 6, 2026 (all day)
North Hall

The Last Rodeo

Featuring a collection of work by:

Poojana Prasanna, Louisa Eastley, Paige Wilkinson, Clara Reynen, Harper Folsom

The University of Iowa Center for the Book

Spring 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition

Please join us for a celebratory reception! Friday, May 8th from 4:30pm – 6pm with remarks at 5:15 pm

K. K. Merker Gallery Ground Floor of North Hall – 20 West Davenport Street

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College of Pharmacy PSET Seminar Series: Robin Bogner, PhD

Tuesday, April 28, 2026 11:30am
College of Pharmacy Building

The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics (PSET) in the College of Pharmacy will host a seminar presented by: 

Robin Bogner, PhD
Director, Kildsig Center for Pharmaceutical Processing Research (CPPR)
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

Seminar Title: "Emerging Technology to Enhance the Stabilization of Therapeutics by Lyophilization"

All are welcome to attend. No pre-registration required.

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Anthology Ally: An ICON Course Accessibility Tool

Tuesday, April 28, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual

Anthology Ally is a powerful tool in your ICON courses. It provides instructors guidance and feedback on accessibility issues in their course sites and offers students multiple formats for downloading and using course materials. Join us to learn how this tool works, how you can make your course sites more accessible, and how it can increase students' ability to engage with your course materials.

Register for event.

The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and...

For the Law of Writing

Tuesday, April 28, 2026 12:45pm to 1:45pm
Boyd Law Building

Need a stress relief as the semester winds to an end? Join us for a no-stakes, creative writing session with hosts Carissa Vogel and Caroline Sheerin (Writing Law School Committee) and Hope Metcalf (CCC). For the Law of Writing will engage with the joy of creative writing time, sharing with others (as desired), and treats (provided by CCC) to fuel our flowing words. Hope to see you on Tuesday, April 28th from 12:45pm - 1:45pm in the Faculty Lounge. All are welcome. See you there!

22nd Annual Gene F. Lata Biochemistry Undergraduate Research Symposium

Tuesday, April 28, 2026 1:00pm to 4:30pm
Medical Education Research Facility

This symposium celebrates the research accomplishments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology undergraduates and provides graduating seniors an opportunity to present their research results.

Presenters for 2026 will be announced soon.

Seminar Series: Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Tuesday, April 28, 2026 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Bowen Science Building

Each semester, we are proud to host outstanding seminar speakers. Everyone is encouraged to attend.

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LLLC Work in Progress Working Group

Tuesday, April 28, 2026 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Phillips Hall

LLLC Work in progress Working Group presentations will take place on the fourth Tuesday of each month in 318 Phillips Hall from 3:30-5pm.These workshops will feature writing by WIP group members, which will be circulated beforehand by the author/translator/scholar. We will begin with a short presentation by the writer, followed by workshop and Q&A. The goal of these meetings is to give a platform for working group members to share writing and get feedback, edits, ideas from colleagues in the...

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Physics & Astronomy Awards Colloquium

Tuesday, April 28, 2026 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Van Allen Hall
2026 Physics & Astronomy Awards Colloquium
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