Events Calendar

Apr 3, 2025

All Day

Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems (TLCP), the University of Iowa College of Law's international law journal, will hold its 2025 symposium Artificial Intelligence and International Humanitarian Law on April 3-4 in Iowa City, Iowa. This symposium will focus on the evolving role of technology in armed conflict, with special attention to topics such as cyber warfare and AI, autonomous weapons systems and the law of armed conflict, and regulating AI in warfare. We aim to foster meaningfu...

Apr 3, 2025

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

This workshop on social network analysis offers participants an in-depth introduction to the principles and methodologies used to study the structure and dynamics of social networks. Attendees will explore concepts such as centrality and network density, and learn how to apply these in analyzing relationships within various social systems. Through hands-on exercises, participants will utilize software tools like Gephi or iGraph to visualize and interpret network data. The workshop aims to eq...

Apr 3, 2025

4:00 PM

a Faculty First Responders Workshop sponsored by POROI, Iowa’s Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry At a time when academics are finding their work hyper-surveilled, banned from funding, or even scrubbed by AI, how can we vibrantly sustain our research, writing, and creative practice? In this Faculty First Responders workshop, participants will learn concrete steps to support freedom of inquiry for themselves and others. Topics include digital security measures, reducing risk of extremist attac...

Apr 4, 2025

All Day

Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems (TLCP), the University of Iowa College of Law's international law journal, will hold its 2025 symposium Artificial Intelligence and International Humanitarian Law on April 3-4 in Iowa City, Iowa. This symposium will focus on the evolving role of technology in armed conflict, with special attention to topics such as cyber warfare and AI, autonomous weapons systems and the law of armed conflict, and regulating AI in warfare. We aim to foster meaningfu...

Apr 8, 2025

7:45 AM - 4:00 PM

Purpose: The purpose of this Refresher Course is to provide practicing family physicians, PAs, and ARNPs a comprehensive overview of clinical issues relevant to contemporary family medicine. Lectures, case presentations, opportunities for questions and answers — all combine to create a fast-moving and useful educational experience. The course should prove especially useful for those preparing themselves for examination by the American Board of Family Medicine.    

Apr 8, 2025

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

What is ORCID? Why would you want one? This session will discuss ORCID, how researchers can benefit from having one, and how ORCID connects with other information systems. This will also be a hands-on workshop where everyone will have the chance to create their own ORCID and learn the most efficient ways to populate their profile with their publications. PLEASE NOTE Class will be taught via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be emailed the Zoom link 30 minutes before ...

Apr 8, 2025

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Instructors: Pauline Beazer James, Senior Advisor, International Student and Scholar Services; and Shuhui Lin, International Education Program and Student Affairs Advisor, International Student and Scholar Services Description: In this two-part interactive session, participants will explore the four intercultural conflict styles using the Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory (ICS). The ICS is an 18-item assessment that measures individuals’ core approaches to communicating about differen...

Apr 9, 2025

10:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Instructors:  Huan-Chung Scott Liu, PhD, Staff Psychologist at University Counseling Service (UCS) and Tianyi Xie, PhD, Staff Psychologist at University Counseling Service (UCS) Description: This session highlights how concerns unique to international students impact their mental health. These concerns can affect international students’ transition to the University of Iowa, their functioning on campus, and their broader adjustment to the United States. We will explore how the forbearance c...

Apr 10, 2025

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

EndNote is a reference management tool that helps you to easily gather together your references in one place, organize them, and then insert them into papers and format them in a style of your choosing. This session will walk you through the basics of using EndNote to collect and format your citations. The class will be hands-on, and there will be time for questions at the end.

Apr 10, 2025

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

In preparation for the April 11th Story Lab Showcase at MERGE, we will practice stories on-site in the space the afternoon prior. Questions? Contact Nick Westergaard at nick-westergaard@uiowa.edu.  

Apr 11, 2025

8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

8 a.m. to noon University of Iowa Health Care Pomerantz Family Pavilion Braley Auditorium | 01136 PFP Iowa City, IA Register Here! The series of clinical conferences sponsored by the Department of Ophthalmology presents updated information on a broad spectrum of clinical issues and approaches that are of value and interest to the practicing ophthalmologist. General Information Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa sponsored events. If you are ...

Apr 11, 2025

8:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Join us to explore different models for coaching in health professions education, why coaching works, and how you can incorporate coaching practices into your teaching. Click here to register.

Apr 11, 2025

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Join us for lunch and stories on a yet to be announced theme. This event is free and open to the public. A free lunch will be provided. The Story Lab end-of-semester showcase is a great opportunity for connecting and networking with Tippie faculty, staff, students, and alumni as well as the local business community. Story Lab is presented by the Tippie Leadership Collaborative. 

Apr 11, 2025

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Join the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, and the Graduate College for lunch and an introduction to pitching your research to The Conversation US with Kristy Nabhan-Warren, Associate Vice President for Research.  The Conversation is an independent news organization dedicated to unlocking the knowledge of academic experts for the public good. With a monthly readership of 20 million, The Conversation expertly shares a scholar’s expertise far...

Apr 11, 2025

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Join the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, and the Graduate College for lunch and an introduction to pitching your research to The Conversation US with Kristy Nabhan-Warren, associate vice president for research.  The Conversation is an independent news organization dedicated to unlocking the knowledge of academic experts for the public good. With a monthly readership of 20 million, The Conversation expertly shares a scholar’s expertise far...

Apr 11, 2025

5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

The Sustainability Case Competition is an opportunity for undergraduate students to utilize critical thinking and problem-solving skills to solve real sustainability problems. The case competition kicks off with a Welcome Event on the evening of Friday, April 11. Saturday, April 12 is an all-day event featuring 5-hours of case solving within teams, presentations of teams’ case solutions, and a dinner/award ceremony in the evening. The Sustainability Case Competition is hosted by the Tippie C...

Apr 12, 2025

All Day

In honor of Sonia Kovalevsky, the Department of Mathematics at the University of Iowa organizes Sonia Kovalevsky High School Mathematics Day yearly with the goal to inspire young women interested in math and show them that math is like solving a puzzle. Sonia Kovalevsky High School Mathematics Day is an opportunity for young women to engage in a day of networking, mentoring, and fun! The daylong program includes workshops, interactive talks, math related games and panels of professionals wit...

Apr 12, 2025

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

The UI Labor Center and the Hubbell Environmental Law Initiative will host the 2025 Labor and Climate Conference on Saturday, April 12 at the Iowa Memorial Union, between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. The topics of focus for this event are rising heat, public health, and worker safety. National speakers will be featured, as well as breakout sessions on topics including: How rising heat impacts Iowans health and safety; Local and state laws and national policy initiatives to mitigate the effect of ...

Apr 13, 2025

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Join us for a three hour silent mindfulness retreat from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 13. The day will include practice with meditation, yoga, and mind/body skills for relaxation and wellness. The retreat is open both to novices and people with more experience. It is a chance to reconnect to yourself at a time of year that is often hectic, and apply skills that can enhance your immune system, concentration, energy, and your ability to enjoy daily life. Register for the workshop here: https...

Apr 13, 2025

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

The Drawing Salon focuses on drawing artworks from the museum's collection. Each session will focus on a different artwork. The sessions will begin with an introduction and discussion of the selected work. Participants will be encouraged to pursue their own visions and to take inspiration from the artworks in the gallery. Pencils and sketchbooks/paper are the only artmaking materials allowed in the galleries. The museum has golf pencils with erasers and clipboards for participants to use. S...

Apr 14, 2025

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Instructors:  Rudia W. Kihura, PhD, Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology & Early Childhood, Black Hills State University; and Brandon Paulson, Associate Director, International Student and Scholar Services Description: In this two-part interactive class, participants will explore the four intercultural conflict styles using the Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory (ICS). The ICS is an 18-item assessment that measures individuals’ core approaches to communicating about differences,...

Apr 16, 2025

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Instructors: Shuhui Lin, International Education Program and Student Affairs Advisor, International Student and Scholar Services; and Engagement and Brandon Paulson, Associate Director, International Student and Scholar Services Description: In this two-part interactive session, participants will learn about developing their intercultural insights by exploring the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI). The IDI generates an individual profile of “worldview orientation to difference,” an...

Apr 16, 2025

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Open Access to scientific literature is one of the most hotly debated topics in scholarly publishing. This workshop will provide an overview of what scientists need to know when making their research open access. We will cover the basics of what we mean by open access, how open access relates to the NIH Public Access policy, open access journals in the biomedical sciences, predatory publishing scams, and best practices for evaluating your open access options. PLEASE NOTE Advance registrati...

Apr 16, 2025

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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.

Apr 17, 2025

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

This interactive talk for PhD and MFA students in the writing disciplines will outline the publishing process for first books. The session will guide graduate students through the steps of the academic publishing process, with a focus on demystifying the journey from dissertation/thesis to manuscript to published book. Key topics will include identifying the right academic publisher, understanding peer review, negotiating contracts, and building a strong proposal. Led by Mark Simpson-Vos, Se...

Apr 18, 2025

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

For this workshop, 4–5 UI faculty members will submit book proposal drafts for a collaborative feedback session led by Mark Simpson-Vos, Senior Executive Editor at University of North Carolina Press. The session is designed to help authors write a compelling book proposal, with a focus on crafting a strong pitch, identifying target audiences, and outlining the project’s structure. The workshop’s goal is for participants to walk away with a strong and cohesive book proposal, increasing their...

Apr 18, 2025

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

We welcome everyone to the first annual “MATFab Materials Frontier Symposium” that will be held on April 18, 2025 in the Iowa Advanced Technology Laboratories Building on the University of Iowa campus. The purpose of the symposium is to highlight advances and applications in materials science across all scientific disciplines.  Schedule of Events Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FE-SEM) Workshop 1–2:30 p.m. IATL 104 Join Drs. Michael Sinnwell and Jackie Feng as they explain ...

Apr 18, 2025

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Hop to it! In this fun and creative workshop, children will transform ordinary socks into adorable bunny friends. Using rice to fill their bodies and buttons for eyes and noses, kids will design and create their own unique and cuddly companions. Space is limited; please reserve your spot at https://uiowa.doubleknot.com/event/schools-out-at-the-stanley-april-18/3... Please arrive in time for children to settle in and begin the project at 2 p.m. School's Out at the Stanley is offered on day...

Apr 19, 2025

All Day

Save the date for April 19, 2025, for the Iowa Archeological Society annual spring meeting! This year’s events will take place in southeast Iowa at Lacey-Keosauqua State Park. Stay tuned for details!

Apr 21, 2025

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Instructors:  Rudia W. Kihura, PhD, Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology & Early Childhood, Black Hills State University; and Brandon Paulson, Associate Director, International Student and Scholar Services Description: In this two-part interactive class, participants will explore the four intercultural conflict styles using the Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory (ICS). The ICS is an 18-item assessment that measures individuals’ core approaches to communicating about differences,...

Apr 23, 2025

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Instructors: Shuhui Lin, International Education Program and Student Affairs Advisor, International Student and Scholar Services; and Engagement and Brandon Paulson, Associate Director, International Student and Scholar Services Description: In this two-part interactive session, participants will learn about developing their intercultural insights by exploring the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI). The IDI generates an individual profile of “worldview orientation to difference,” an...

Apr 23, 2025

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Are you a faculty member, staff researcher, or graduate student looking to enhance your peer review skills? Do you find reviewing to be challenging or time-consuming? Join us at the Center for Social Science Innovation for a workshop on best practices for reviewing manuscripts in the social sciences! This 90-minute workshop will provide you with practical guidance on assessing research quality, offering constructive feedback, and making meaningful contributions to the academic peer review p...

Apr 25, 2025

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

This two-hour workshop introduces time series methods and shows their utility for examining social science data. Topics that will be covered include stationarity, ARIMA models, ADL/ECM models, and a brief introduction to more advanced time series models. Sara Mitchell, professor in the Department of Political Science, will run the workshop. Register for the workshop here. 

Apr 25, 2025

4:00 PM - 3:00 PM

The second annual Connecting K-12 and Higher Education Conference will take place April 25-26 at the Kirkwood Regional Center at the University of Iowa.  This free conference aims to bring together local stakeholders from K-12 education, the University of Iowa, and other educators from the state of Iowa to share knowledge related to student learning, effective teaching, and innovative educational practices. Day one of the event will take place from 4 - 8 p.m. on Friday, April 25. Day two is...

Apr 27, 2025

2:30 PM - 4:15 PM

Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop is back for the Spring Semester! 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....

May 1, 2025

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

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.

May 2, 2025

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

EndNote is a reference management tool that helps you to easily gather together your references in one place, organize them, and then insert them into papers and format them in a style of your choosing. This session will walk you through the basics of using EndNote to collect and format your citations. The class will be hands-on, and there will be time for questions at the end.

May 3, 2025

8:00 AM - 1:00 PM

The Zada Cooper Leadership Symposium celebrates the legacy of Zada Mary Cooper, a trailblazer in pharmacy education and leadership. A graduate of the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy in 1897, Cooper dedicated her career to advancing the profession, serving as a faculty member for 45 years until her retirement in 1942. Cooper was regarded as an exceptional educator, guide, and innovator who inspired her students. She was one of the founders of the Women’s Section of the American Pharma...

May 9, 2025

8:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Each Spring faculty at the University of Iowa Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences present a full-day conference for optometric practitioners. This conference will provide the optometric practitioner with information that will assist him/her with diagnostic dilemmas and patient questions that are encountered daily. This activity will also provide information about current and expected diagnostic and treatment options for a variety of eye diseases. Finally, this activity will provi...

May 12, 2025

All Day

Have you been waiting all school year to make serious progress on your book manuscript, article, or grant application? Jump-start your summer writing project at the Obermann End-of-Year Writing Retreat May 12–16, 2025! Fifteen participants will enjoy a week of quiet productivity apart from the distractions of campus at the beautiful North Ridge Pavilion in Coralville. Daily catered lunches will provide an opportunity for exchange and discussion with other writers across campus. Each day wil...

May 16, 2025

8:30 AM - 11:30 AM

This session will focus on strategies and tools for assessing and teaching learners clinical/diagnostic reasoning. Objectives: Describe how clinical reasoning evolves and the model of "Dual Processing Reasoning." Analyze and assess diagnostic reasoning of learners. Give specific feedback to improve diagnostic reasoning of learners. Click here to register.

May 18, 2025

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

The Drawing Salon focuses on drawing artworks from the museum's collection. Each session will focus on a different artwork. The sessions will begin with an introduction and discussion of the selected work. Participants will be encouraged to pursue their own visions and to take inspiration from the artworks in the gallery. Pencils and sketchbooks/paper are the only artmaking materials allowed in the galleries. The museum has golf pencils with erasers and clipboards for participants to use. S...

May 20, 2025

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Survival analysis is a statistical method used to analyze and predict the time until an event of interest, such as death or failure, occurs. This workshop introduces participants to the fundamental concepts and techniques used to analyze time-to-event data.  Jon Davis, assistant professor in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, will run the workshop. Register for the workshop here.

May 25, 2025

2:30 PM - 4:15 PM

Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop is back for the Spring Semester! 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....

Jun 5, 2025

8:00 AM - 3:00 PM

UI Health Care, the UIHC Department of Nursing, the College of Dentistry, the College of Nursing, and the College of Public Health, and the Center for Disabilities and Development co-sponsor the annual Culturally Responsive Health Care in Iowa conference. The goal of this multidisciplinary, interprofessional conference is to improve the delivery of culturally sensitive and responsive health care to increasingly diverse patient populations. CME is offered.  

Jun 12, 2025

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Increase your ophthalmic knowledge and enhance your clinical skills! Register Today! 2025 Iowa Eye Annual Meeting and Alumni Reunion on Friday & Saturday, June 13-14! This year we will also hold events on the evening of Thursday, June 12 and all day on Saturday, June 14 in celebration of the Ophthalmology Department turning 100! Travel days will be Thursday, June 12, 2025 and Sunday, June 15, 2025. The meeting features lectures, case presentations, and discussions covering numerous topics ...