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

GPSG Meetings Fall 2025

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GPSG Events

There are no upcoming GPSG events at this time. 

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Events Around Campus

School of Music Veteran's Day Concert

Tuesday, November 11, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

School of Music Veteran's Day Concert

View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/952027

This event is free and open to the public. 

Veterans Week Blood drive in honor of Dave Malott

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 9:00am to 2:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)

LTC David E. Malott, a 22-year Army Veteran and well-respected IOWA employee, passed away on Aug. 11, 2024. During his extensive military career, Dave served as the University of Iowa’s commander of the Army ROTC Mighty Hawkeye Battalion. After his military retirement he ventured into civilian life as an admission counselor at the University of Iowa, where he was fondly known as Counselor Dave. Dave retired from The University of Iowa in September of 2016. Dave was a regular blood donor and...

REDCap MyCap Training

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This is the fifth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will discuss using the MyCap mobile app for data collection. We will cover features such as:

Creating participants Creating tasks and schedules Active tasks and their unique data output Direct messages and announcements

This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training, you will have a basic understanding of the MyCap mobile app for REDCap.

Register by clicking the virtual event link above or by going...

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Microsoft Teams: An Introduction

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 11:00am to 12:00pm
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...

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Career Connectors Elective: Don’t Fear the Bot—Helping Students Navigate AI in Career Development

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 11:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual

In addition to offering the three foundational courses within Career Connectors, there are also a variety of elective opportunities for continuous professional development and a deeper dive on specific topics. Stay up to date with the latest industry insights, gain new perspectives, and enhance your skills as you navigate the ever-evolving landscape of career development!

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to shape the workforce, it's essential for faculty and staff to understand how to...

Prioritizing Process in “Writing to Learn” Assignment Design

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 12:00pm to 1:00pm
University Capitol Centre
In the age of AI, many instructors are creating writing assignments that lean into learning and away from polished product. This interactive session will dig deeper into what it means to have a process orientation and discuss feedback and revision as essential elements for building learning into writing assignments.
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Paper Pop-Up Crafternoon: Botanicals, Bugs, and Biology

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 12:00pm to 2:00pm
University of Iowa Main Library

Join the Main Library Gallery and the Sciences Library for a drop-in crafternoon!

Learn to make easy pop-up cards featuring natural beauty such as flowers and plants, insects, and more. Plus, learn about library resources that explore your favorite topics in biology and check out the Main Library Gallery’s fall exhibit, Paper Engineering in Art, Science, and Education.

Drop in any time between noon and 2 p.m. for this casual event.

[Event image is from a pop-up book by Shawn Sheehy on display in...

Departmental Brown Bag

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Psychological and Brain Sciences Building

Brown Bag events feature presentations by Psychological and Brain Sciences graduate students from the Cognitive and Behavioral Cognitive Neuroscience training areas.

Presenter, title, and abstract to come.

Fall 2025 IRB Office Hours

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 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. No appointment
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Engaging Across Cultures: Engaging Multilingual Learners Across Disciplines

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Virtual
This session will focus on how to consider and include the perspective of students with English as an additional language in all classrooms. We will invite participants to reflect on their own experiences to inform our conversation and discuss how to accommodate the needs of diverse learner backgrounds.

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - Daniel Groselj, Ph.D.; KU Leuven

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Van Allen Hall
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium

1L Happy Hour with Nyemaster

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Backpocket Brewing

Iowa Law 1Ls Exclusive Event: Meet Iowa's Largest Law Firm!

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Success, Not Excess

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Bowman House

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 satisfy legal or other disciplinary mandates...

Chamber Music Recital: Graduate Brass Quintet

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 5:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Chamber Music Recital: Graduate Brass Quintet

Anna Kelly
Matheus Silva De Souza
Omar Elmusa
Jillian Arnold
Josh Levy

This concert is free and open to the public.

View the program here: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/952028

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IPA Student Pharmacist Practice Forum

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Virtual

Come learn about standard of care and what it means for you as a future pharmacist. Iowa Pharmacy Association (IPA) Student Board of Trustee members Ian Patterson (University of Iowa) and Stacy Johnson (Drake University) will facilitate this interactive virtual forum with IPA Executive Fellow Spencer Short, PharmD. Bring your questions and thoughts as time is available for good discussion. The forum is open to all student pharmacist members of IPA

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3-Point Shootout

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 6:30pm to 10:00pm
Field House

Registration Information: No pre-registration is required for this event. Just show up during the times listed below, bring your UI ID, and get ready to knock down some threes!

Event Dates, Time, and Location: The 3-Point Shootout will take place in the Field House South Gym.

Sunday, November 9 - 6:30-10:00 p.m.

Monday, November 10 - 6:30-10:00 p.m.

Tuesday, November 11 - 6:30-10:00 p.m.

Wednesday, November 12 - 6:30-10:00 p.m.

Event Format: Participants will have 60 seconds to shoot from five...

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Argonautika

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 8:00pm
Theatre Building
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 capricious sorceress named Medea --- Mary Zimmerman’s Argonautika explores themes of heroism, love, and loss in a modern retelling of the 3rd century B.C. poem.

Veterans Week IVETS Breakfast

Thursday, November 13, 2025 8:30am to 10:30am
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)

Members of the university community are invited to a free breakfast in 214 Calvin Hall. This is a great opportunity to meet VMC students, staff, and faculty.

Attendees are welcome to tour IVETS on the second floor of Calvin Hall to learn more about the wide range of services offered to our students in the Veteran and Military-Connected community at the University of Iowa.

November AI Monthly User Group

Thursday, November 13, 2025 9:00am to 10:00am
Virtual
A monthly session on artificial intelligence across campus
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Tabling Event - The Tippie College of Business, Graduate Programs will be tabling at the General Hospital (GH) Fountain Lobby.

Thursday, November 13, 2025 9:00am to 12:00pm
General Hospital
UIHC employees to come have a free cup of coffee and learn more about our part-time online working professional graduate programs

Fall 2025 IRB Office Hours

Thursday, November 13, 2025 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. No appointment necessary. First come, first served.

REDCap Data Handling

Thursday, November 13, 2025 10:00am to 11:59pm
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 usable format...

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Mental Health & Well-Being Pecha Kucha: Engage the Innovators

Thursday, November 13, 2025 12:00pm to 4:00pm
University Capitol Centre

Join us for the University of Iowa's second annual Mental Health & Well-Being Pecha Kucha! Pecha Kucha is Japanese for chit-chat and emphasizes storytelling via imagery over words. This fun, interactive, and highly engaging workshop style elevates the voices of our campus “mental health and well-being innovators” to provide you:

New ways of thinking about your work from a mental health & well-being lens

Tangible take-aways about innovative mental health & well-being practices occurring on campus

Co...

Legally Different: Careers That Break the Mold

Thursday, November 13, 2025 12:40pm to 1:40pm
Boyd Law Building

Join us for a panel discussion with current lawyers, industry leaders and dynamic professions. Focused on alternative career paths for J.D. holders, attendees will participate in a Q&A and learn about legal journeys beyond big law. Lunch provided.

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