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

GPSG Meetings Fall 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)
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

Johnson County Landmark – “Should A Big Band be Playing This? Vol. 1: The Music of Jacob Mann” promotional image

Johnson County Landmark – “Should A Big Band be Playing This? Vol. 1: The Music of Jacob Mann”

Sunday, October 4, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Please join Johnson County Landmark (JCL) for their opening concert of the 2026-27 school year – which features the music of modern jazz composer Jacob Mann. Mann represents one of the most potent compositional voices in contemporary jazz, and reflects a musical esthetic a bit “closer to home” for our ensemble student’s own generation. As such, this concert will feature a glimpse of what is happening in big band jazz right now as we speak. Part jazz, part funk, part electronic dance music (EDM)...

Clarence Tow Lecture Series in Economics: Tridib Sharma

Monday, October 5, 2026 10:45am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Tridib Sharma is a Professor of Economics at ITAM.

薄暮/hakubo -the sun is thinning-  promotional image

薄暮/hakubo -the sun is thinning-

Monday, October 5 to Wednesday, October 7, 2026 (all day)
North Hall
薄暮/hakubo -the sun is thinning- describes twilight—the fleeting blue hour after sunset, when the sun has disappeared but darkness has not yet arrived.

Across the Aisle: Is the DSA good or bad for democracy?

Monday, October 5, 2026 12:35pm to 1:45pm
Boyd Law Building

After introductory remarks, participants will pair up over the lunch hour to discuss their views. Hot lunch will be provided!

Plasma Physics Seminar - Assistant Professor Elizabeth Tolman; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Iowa promotional image

Plasma Physics Seminar - Assistant Professor Elizabeth Tolman; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Iowa

Monday, October 5, 2026 2:30pm to 3:30pm
Van Allen Hall
Plasma Physics Seminar
 Masterclass with Jane Dutton promotional image

Masterclass with Jane Dutton

Monday, October 5, 2026 3:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Kirsten Staker, soprano and Jonathan Bass, piano

Deh, vieni non tardar from Le Nozze di Figaro by W. A. Mozart

Josiah Goodlett, bass-baritone and Jonathan Bass, piano

Udite, udite o rustici from L'elisire d'amore by Gaetano Donizetti

Lasya Kappagantu, soprano and Colin DeJong, piano

Prendi, per me sei libero from L'elisire d'amore by Gaetano Donizetti

Drew Smith, tenor and Yimu Wang, piano

"L'abbandono" by Vicenzo Bellini

Jane Dutton is associate professor of voice at the Indiana University Jacobs...

Nuclear & Particle Physics Seminar - Dr. Aparajitha Karthikeyan; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Iowa

Monday, October 5, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Van Allen Hall
Nuclear & Particle Physics Seminar
Biology Graduate Student Seminars on Monday, October 5: Jessica Miller (HE Lab), Travis Sirevicius (Martin Lab), and Claire Li (Tootle Lab) promotional image

Biology Graduate Student Seminars on Monday, October 5: Jessica Miller (HE Lab), Travis Sirevicius (Martin Lab), and Claire Li (Tootle Lab)

Monday, October 5, 2026 3:30pm
Biology Building East
Biology Graduate Student Seminars on Monday, October 5 at 3:30pm in Room 101, Biology Building East: Jessica Miller (HE Lab), Travis Sirevicius (Martin Lab), and Claire Li (Tootle Lab)
This Is the Route of My Forefathers: The 1837 Ioway Map | Luther College, Decorah promotional image

This Is the Route of My Forefathers: The 1837 Ioway Map | Luther College, Decorah

Monday, October 5, 2026 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Luther College
Join University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist adjunct research associate and former Iowa State Archaeologist, William Green, for a book discussion and meet the author event for his new title, This is the Route of My Forefathers: The 1837 Ioway Map. Luther College archaeologist, Colin Betts, will join Green to discuss the roles of Native mapmaking and oral traditions, historical documents, and archaeology in documenting the deep connections of the Iowa Tribe to the Midwest generally, and northeast Iowa in particular.
Earthmind: Grounding Through Plant-Based Scents promotional image

Earthmind: Grounding Through Plant-Based Scents

Monday, October 5, 2026 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)

Swap your screen time for green time! Discover ways to transform your everyday outdoor activities into stress-relieving tools in a free four-week workshop.

Earthmind is…

Provided in a collaboration with Earthmind, a local nonprofit organization

Taught in four, individual sessions

Taught in small groups

Fall 2026

Offered on Mondays from 5 to 5:50 p.m. as individual sessions.

Sept. 21: Outdoor Tea and Study Reset: Sip tea outdoors and learn a simple reset ritual you can use before studying, after class...

Student Impact Grant - Applicant Q&A Session promotional image

Student Impact Grant - Applicant Q&A Session

Monday, October 5, 2026 7:00pm to 7:30pm
Virtual
Student Impact Grant - Applicant Q&A Session
Ruby Bridges promotional image

Ruby Bridges

Monday, October 5, 2026 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
Civil Rights Icon, Activist, & Author
Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Seminar, Jean-Ju Chung, PhD promotional image

Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Seminar, Jean-Ju Chung, PhD

Tuesday, October 6, 2026 9:30am to 10:30am
Bowen Science Building

REDCap Basic Training

Tuesday, October 6, 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...

Ice Age Iowa at Grimes Farm and Conservation Center | Marshalltown promotional image

Ice Age Iowa at Grimes Farm and Conservation Center | Marshalltown

Tuesday, October 6, 2026 11:30am to 12:30pm
Grimes Farm and Conservation Center
Join Cherie Haury-Artz from the University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist to journey back more than 13,000 years to the end of the last Ice Age, on Tuesday, October 6 at 11:30am for the Brown Bag Bunch at Grimes Farm and Conservation Center in Marshalltown.
Course Accessibility For Everyone (CAFÉ): Full Blend promotional image

Course Accessibility For Everyone (CAFÉ): Full Blend

Tuesday, October 6, 2026 12:00pm to 1:30pm
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.
薄暮/hakubo -the sun is thinning-  promotional image

薄暮/hakubo -the sun is thinning-

Tuesday, October 6 to Wednesday, October 7, 2026 (all day)
North Hall
薄暮/hakubo -the sun is thinning- describes twilight—the fleeting blue hour after sunset, when the sun has disappeared but darkness has not yet arrived.

BMB Research Workshop

Tuesday, October 6, 2026 12:30pm to 1:20pm
Medical Education Research Facility

The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology holds research workshops featuring internal speakers on Tuesdays, 12:30-1:20pm. For Fall 2026, these will occur in 1117 MERF. Presentation titles are not publicly available due to the use of unpublished research. Individuals interested in attending workshops or being added to the email list should contact the office at biochem@uiowa.edu.

Aug. 25: CANCELED

Sept. 1: CANCELED

Sept. 8: RESERVED

Sept. 15: Steve Guzman, PhD, Postdoc Fellow, Biomedical...

Intermediate Spatial Data Science and GeoAI with Dr. Caglar Koylu promotional image

Intermediate Spatial Data Science and GeoAI with Dr. Caglar Koylu

Tuesday, October 6, 2026 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Social Sciences Research Building
Many social, environmental, and health processes exhibit spatial patterns. Nearby places may be related, and relationships between variables may vary across locations. When these spatial patterns are ignored, key assumptions of traditional statistical methods can be violated, leading to biased or misleading results.

This workshop introduces concepts and methods in spatial statistics and GeoAI for analyzing such patterns and relationships. Participants will learn about spatial dependence, where nearby observations tend to be related, and spatial heterogeneity and non-stationarity, where relationships between variables vary across space. Through a hands-on case study, participants will use mapping and spatial statistical methods to identify these patterns.

The workshop will also introduce XGBoost as a machine-learning approach for modeling complex and nonlinear relationships and use SHAP (Shapley Additive Explanations) to interpret how different variables contribute to model predictions in the social, environmental, and health sciences.

Analyses will be conducted in Python using Google Colab. Some familiarity with quantitative data analysis and spatial data science is encouraged. Prior experience with machine learning or programming is not required.
Operator Theory Seminar - Professor Raúl Curto; Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa promotional image

Operator Theory Seminar - Professor Raúl Curto; Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa

Tuesday, October 6, 2026 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Van Allen Hall
Operator Theory Seminar

Seminar Series: Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Tuesday, October 6, 2026 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Bowen Science Building

Each semester, we are proud to host outstanding seminar speakers. Everyone is encouraged to attend. Visit website: https://microbiology.medicine.uiowa.edu/about-us/seminars

AI Is Not Your Friend: Cautions and Vents about Its Uses and Abuses in the Creation of Scholarly Publications promotional image

AI Is Not Your Friend: Cautions and Vents about Its Uses and Abuses in the Creation of Scholarly Publications

Tuesday, October 6, 2026 3:00pm to 4:00pm
111 Church Street

On Tuesday, Oct. 6, from 3 to 4 p.m. at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, Walter Biggins, editor-in-chief at University of Pennsylvania Press, will offer his perspective as both a longtime acquiring editor and as a writer on how the advent of AI affects the present and possible futures of scholarly publishing. In particular, he will discuss how the emerging technology creates concerns and unresolved tensions — ethical, legal, and otherwise — in publishing around intellectual property...

Japanese Conversation Table Fall '26 promotional image

Japanese Conversation Table Fall '26

Tuesday, October 6, 2026 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Phillips Hall
Join the UI Japanese Program on Tuesdays to practice your Japanese language skills with fellow learners!
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