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

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

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.

Getting Started with Copilot in Excel

Wednesday, May 27, 2026 2:00pm to 2:45pm
Virtual
Many Excel files arrive with a little history, whether they come from exports, shared trackers, registration lists, budget notes, survey responses, or older spreadsheets. This new training walks through how Microsoft 365 Copilot can help with common spreadsheet work, including cleaning up entries, creating formulas, explaining spreadsheet logic, summarizing information, and identifying patterns.
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Astrophysics & Space Physics Seminar - Dr. Aaron West; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota

Wednesday, May 27, 2026 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Van Allen Hall
Astrophysics & Space Physics Seminar
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Changing Medicine, Changing Lives: A Celebration of Our People

Wednesday, May 27, 2026 5:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
UI Health Care's inaugural awards celebration

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.
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Blood Drive at Stead Family Children's Hospital

Thursday, May 28, 2026 10:00am to 2:00pm
University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital
The DeGowin Blood Center is hosting a blood drive from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday, May 28th, 2026 at the Stead Family Hospital.

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!

May AI User Group

Thursday, May 28, 2026 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Virtual
Before sending a prompt, it helps to pause and think about what you are sharing, whether the tool is the right fit for that information, and whether the output needs to be checked before you use it. May’s AI User Group brings Justin Evans from the Security Office into that conversation, with a focus on AI, cybersecurity, and safer habits for everyday university work.
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College of Pharmacy PSET Thesis Seminar: Kris Lukas

Thursday, May 28, 2026 1:00pm
College of Pharmacy Building

The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics in the College of Pharmacy will host a thesis seminar presented by PhD Candidate Kris Lukas.

Thesis Title: "Deciphering the Immunological and Translational Profile of Novel Double-Stranded mRNA LNPs."

All are welcome to attend.

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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...

Careers at Caravel

Thursday, May 28, 2026 3:30pm to 4:00pm
Virtual
Are you a new grad considering a career in Behavior Analysis? Are you a student exploring career paths in child development, early childhood education, or psychology?
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Stanley Family Day

Saturday, May 30, 2026 10:00am to 4:30pm
Stanley Museum of Art
It's Family Day at the Stanley! Spend your Saturday at the museum as we host a full day of artmaking activities, tours for all ages, and refreshments.

This program is free and open to all, registration is required for the artmaking workshop. We are also offering free parking all day for visitors so that you can stay as long you like!

Community Music Lessons Piano Recital - Students of Hyewon Lee

Saturday, May 30, 2026 1:30pm
Voxman Music Building

This concert is free and open to the public.

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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...

Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Program Thesis Defense Seminar: Sara Mitchell promotional image

Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Program Thesis Defense Seminar: Sara Mitchell

Tuesday, June 2, 2026 11:00am
Medical Education Research Facility

Sara Mitchell is a PhD candidate in the Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Graduate Program. Her research has been conducted in Drs. Hanna Stevens and Rainbo Hultman laboratories.

If you are unable to attend in person, please consider showing your support and attending via Zoom. Please email britt-hokanson@uiowa.edu for the zoom link.

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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2026 US-Thai/US-ASEAN Pharmacy Consortia Meeting

Wednesday, June 3 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 Intermediate Training

Wednesday, June 3, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This is the second step in the REDCap training series. In this training we will cover basic and intermediate features such as:
• Outputting data automatically with calculated fields
• Collecting the same data points multiple times with longitudinal and one-to-many data collection
• Standardizing your data to industry standards with ontologies and the REDCap Instrument Library
• Ways to customize your data entry experience with action tags
• Viewing data with reports, dashboards, and charts
• And more

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