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

GPSG Meetings Spring 2024

meetings

Council Meeting

IMU Room 337 (or join via Zoom)
meetings

Council Meeting

IMU Room 337 (or join via Zoom)
meetings

Council Meeting

IMU Room 337 (or join via Zoom)

GPSG Events

Wholistic Wellness Week 2024

Wholistic Wellness Week Safety Training Flyer

WWW: Personal Safety Training Sessions

UCC Campus Safety Training Room
Wholistic Wellness Week Safety Training Flyer

WWW: Personal Safety Training Sessions

UCC Campus Safety Training Room
Wholistic Wellness Week: Mindfulness Meditation

WWW: Mindfulness Meditation

Zoom

Events Around Campus

IRB/HSO Spring 2025 Office Hours

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Virtual
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.

DMA I Recital: Shengbo Shi, piano

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 5:30pm
Voxman Music Building
DMA I Recital: Shengbo Shi, piano This concert is free and open to the public.

DMA I Recital: Hyewon Lee, piano

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
DMA I Recital: Hyewon Lee, pianoThis concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/943881This concert is free and open to the public.
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Exhibition - A Roll of the Dice: Symbolism in the Sackner Archive

Thursday, May 1 to Friday, June 27, 2025 (all day)
University of Iowa Main Library
In 1897, French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé revolutionized the world of graphic design with a single poem that forever changed the way we look at words. His work illustrated how text conveys meaning not only through words, but also as visual symbols that contain a deeper meaning. For over 125 years, artists and writers have continued to explore the mystery of Mallarmé’s poem “Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard” [A throw of the dice will never abolish chance]. This exhibition...
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Rush Baker IV - Shifting Grounds

Thursday, May 1, 2025 8:00am to 8:00pm
Visual Arts Building
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embracing the void: moments between space and time exhibition by matthew willie garcia

Thursday, May 1, 2025 8:00am to 8:00pm
Visual Arts Building
Opening reception: April 24, 5-7 p.m. in the Drewelowe GalleryExhibition dates: April 22–May 3Suminigashi workshop: April 27, 1–2 p.m.Gallery talk: April 27, 2–3 p.m.Communion: song circle led by Lyndsey Scott & Federico Rincón Pedraza, April 30, 5 p.m.
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Microsoft Teams: An Introduction

Thursday, May 1, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
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 chat, creating a team, communicating in a team, meetings, 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...

IRB/HSO Spring 2025 Office Hours

Thursday, May 1, 2025 10:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual
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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Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar: Dr. Kara Davis

Thursday, May 1, 2025 10:30am to 11:20am
Medical Education Research Facility
This event is open to the public."Understanding Cellular Predictors of Relapse in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia"Kara Davis, DOStanford UniversityFaculty Hosts: Miles Pufall, PhD and Jessica Zimmerman, MDDavis Lab | https://kldavislab.org/
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DRW LRN Info Session for University of Iowa Students

Thursday, May 1, 2025 10:30am to 11:30am
Virtual
DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. Students can expect to learn more about LRN, our 12-month Leadership Rotation Network, where they will have the opportunity to rotate through up to three middle and/or back-office teams – such as Global Trading Operations, Treasury, Product Control, Credit, Risk, Project Management, Business Management and Finance. Upon...
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Hardin Open Workshops - PubMed (In Person and Zoom)

Thursday, May 1, 2025 11:30am to 12:30pm
Hardin Library for Health Sciences
This hands-on session will help you improve your searching through best practices for basic and advanced searching and show you features for saving or exporting citations. The session will also help you understand medical subject headings (MeSH) and how they improve your search as well as the benefits of a MyNCBI account. PLEASE NOTE: Advance registration is required to participate on Zoom. Registrants will be emailed the Zoom link 30 minutes before the class time.

Neuroscience & Pharmacology Workshop - Abigail (Abby) Morrison and Julius Yevdash

Thursday, May 1, 2025 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Medical Education Research Facility
Presented by Abby Morrison Graduate Student in Dr. Kristina Thiel's lab Presented by Julius Yevdash Graduate student in the labs of Drs. Colin Kenny and Robert Weigel
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Course Accessibility for Everyone (CAFE): Documents and Files

Thursday, May 1, 2025 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Virtual
Join us to learn some basics to help make your ICON course site accessible to all your students. This session will be focusing on ensuring the documents and files in your site are usable by all your students. We'll talk about why and how to make sure your PDFs are navigable and can be read by screen reading programs, as well as other document types as necessary. By making these changes to your ICON site, you're making your course accessible for everyone.Register to attend.The Office of Teaching...

Strengthening Prosthetic Care in Post Conflict and Remote Zones

Thursday, May 1, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Seamans Center
PRESENTER: Dr. Francesca Riccio-Ackerman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology FACULTY HOST: Dr. Deema Totah, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Graduate Seminar
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Iowa Mid-Career Faculty Scholar Symposium

Thursday, May 1, 2025 3:30pm to 6:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)
Join us for the Iowa Mid-Career Faculty Scholars Symposium on Thursday, May 1 in the Big Ten Theater of the Iowa Memorial Union (IMU).The Iowa Mid-Career Faculty Scholar Award was created in 2022 to support and recognize outstanding UI faculty members across a broad array of academic disciplines who have established national or international reputations within their field and are exceptional teachers in and outside the classroom. During the symposium, each member of the 2023-2026 cohort of...
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Success, Not Excess

Thursday, May 1, 2025 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)
Supporting Students Desiring a Change Success, Not Excess provides a small, safe and supportive space for UI students wanting to make or considering changes in their alcohol or other drug use. The group emphasizes success in academics, relationships, mental and physical health, and other goals through reducing alcohol and other drug use. Meetings are provided by the UI Collegiate Recovery Program. For more information, please visit our website. This is not a treatment group and will not...
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Free CPR/AED, Red Watch Band Training

Thursday, May 1, 2025 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Campus Recreation and Wellness Center
The Red Watch Band Program focuses on knowledge, skill, and confidence building regarding preventing death from alcohol overdose. Students are taught the knowledge and skills to "make the call," and using role plays, given opportunities to build confidence to intervene on behalf of another. All students who complete the training will receive CPR and alcohol bystander training, and will be better able to link the impact that alcohol has on the body. Students will also receive training on how to...
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Reclaiming Heritage: Leadership in Restitution and Repatriation in Iowa

Thursday, May 1, 2025 6:30pm to 8:00pm
University of Iowa Main Library
Join us for a thought-provoking and timely panel discussion in partnership with the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council, featuring esteemed representatives from the Stanley Museum of Art, the Pentacrest Museums, and the Office of the State Archaeologist.Together, they will explore the University of Iowa’s leadership and evolving practices in the restitution and repatriation of African and Indigenous American cultural objects. This conversation sheds light on the critical role of institutions in...
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Forefront & the Black Pop Music Ensemble at Wildwood

Thursday, May 1, 2025 7:00pm
Wildwood Smokehouse & Saloon
Forefront & the Black Pop Music EnsembleForefront (UI Jazz Faculty Ensemble) & the Black Pop Music Ensemble is excited to present a joint concert at Iowa City’s iconic Wildwood Smokehouse & Saloon! Join as we perform selections by some of the world’s most iconic artists including Roy Hargrove, Curtis Mayfield, Sly & The Family Stone, Lakeside & more! You’ll want to be in the house for this one! We look forward to seeing you there!Admission: $5 general admission / $3 students. Advance tickets...
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Center for New Music presents guest artists: LIGAMENT

Thursday, May 1, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Guest Artists: LIGAMENT DuoRecently described as “perverse and nihilistic” by someone on Twitter, Anika Kildegaard (2020 MA, voice) and Will Yager (2021 DMA, double bass) are LIGAMENT, an ensemble dedicated to commissioning new music and creating work for their unique instrumentation. LIGAMENT’s performances are a fusion of standard and non-standard elements; sometimes there are high heels and sometimes there are electric toothbrushes (and sometimes both). The duo is equally at home with...

Iowa Symphony Band

Thursday, May 1, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Iowa Symphony BandThis concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/943887This concert is free and open to the public.

Webinar: Queering Language across Borders: Trans-Koti-Hijra-Khwaja Sira Languages and Linguistics in India and Pakistan

Thursday, May 1, 2025 8:30pm to 10:00pm
Virtual
Join the University of Iowa (UI) South Asian Studies Program, an International Programs affinity group, as they host a webinar featuring Dr. Enakshi Nandi, sociolinguist and language instructor at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, India, and Tayyaba Rafiq, a professional linguist at the Center for Social Justice in Lahore, Pakistan, who will discuss the clandestine intra-community languages or linguistic codes used by trans feminine communities known as kothi/koti, hijra, and/or...
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Exhibition - A Roll of the Dice: Symbolism in the Sackner Archive

Friday, May 2 to Friday, June 27, 2025 (all day)
University of Iowa Main Library
In 1897, French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé revolutionized the world of graphic design with a single poem that forever changed the way we look at words. His work illustrated how text conveys meaning not only through words, but also as visual symbols that contain a deeper meaning. For over 125 years, artists and writers have continued to explore the mystery of Mallarmé’s poem “Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard” [A throw of the dice will never abolish chance]. This exhibition...
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Rush Baker IV - Shifting Grounds

Friday, May 2, 2025 8:00am to 8:00pm
Visual Arts Building
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