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Jan 31, 2025

9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

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Would you like to teach English, study, or do research or creative work abroad for an academic year at no cost to you (U.S. citizens only)? Join International Programs at the University of Iowa for the 13th Annual Fulbright Intensive U.S. Student Program Workshop on Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, from 9:30–11:30 a.m. CST via Zoom. This session will feature current UI Fulbright awardees who will join us from abroad and introduce the staff and faculty who support UI student applicants. We will also co...

Feb 4, 2025

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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This class will provide a framework for developing a literature search for a systematic review. Topics will include the following: standards and criteria to consider, establishing a plan, registering a protocol, developing a research question, determining where to search, identifying search terms, reporting search strategies, and managing references. PLEASE NOTE Advance registration is required for Zoom classes, though walk-ins are welcome for in-person classes. Virtual registrants will be...

Feb 4, 2025

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Talk to students who are currently abroad or recently back to get insights and learn practical tips about developing foreign language skills and making meaningful connections with locals while abroad. The Study Abroad Conversation Series amplifies the voices of students who studied abroad allowing them to share their experiences and stories with students whether they have committed to studying abroad or not. All conversations feature current or former study abroad students alongside profess...

Feb 10, 2025

3:30 PM - 4:20 PM

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Mehrdad Moharrami, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Iowa Title and Abstract TBA. A Zoom link will be provided upon request to non-departmental attendees.

Feb 11, 2025

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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This class will focus on tips and techniques for carrying out a successful literature search in support of a systematic review. Topics will include techniques for developing search strategies, deciding which databases to search and how to seek out grey literature for a given topic. There will also be discussion on selecting journals for hand searching, documenting search strategies, and saving and organizing references. We suggest that “Nuts and Bolts of a Systematic Review” be taken before...

Feb 12, 2025

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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EndNote Basic is a web-based citation management software that is freely available to all UI affiliates. It allows you to import, organize and format citations for papers, articles, etc. EndNote Basic is not the same as the desktop software, Endnote. PLEASE NOTE Class will be taught via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be emailed the Zoom link 30 minutes before the class time.

Feb 13, 2025

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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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: Class will be taught via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be emailed the Zoom link 30 minutes before the class time.

Feb 14, 2025

12:45 PM - 1:45 PM

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Join the Hubbell Environmental Law Initiative at the University of Iowa College of Law for a discussion with New York Times climate reporter Christopher Flavelle and Martin Grace, Professor of Finance at the Tippie College of Business about insurance markets in a changing climate. Christopher Flavelle has been writing about the impacts of climate change on insurance markets for years. In May of 2024, Christopher reported on a recent trend in insurance coverage, calling it the “Iowa effect,”...

Feb 19, 2025

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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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.

Feb 19, 2025

12:30 PM - 1:20 PM

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Denise Jamieson, MD, MPH, Vice President for Medical Affairs and the Tyrone D. Artz Dean, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa Health Care, will deliver the inaugural Hospitals and Health Systems Leadership Lecture on Feb. 19, 2025, at 12:30 p.m. in Callaghan Auditorium (N110 CPHB). The title of Jamieson's lecture is, "Leading UI Health Care: Perspectives from a Career at the Intersection of Public Health and Clinical Medicine.” The lecture is free and open t...

Feb 24, 2025

3:30 PM - 4:20 PM

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Sandra Safo, PhD Associate Professor, Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science, University of Minnesota School of Public Health Title and Abstract TBA. A Zoom link will be provided upon request to non-departmental attendees.

Feb 25, 2025

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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Explore the John Martin Rare Book Room’s rich collection of rare and historical medical materials! This session will introduce you to the JMRBR collection—over 6,400 items which span the of breadth of Western medical scholarship. We will also discuss how to search for, request, and use items from the collection.

Feb 26, 2025

12:45 PM - 1:45 PM

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Join agricultural and antitrust policy expert Austin Frerick, who will be at lowa Law to discuss his new book Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry. Barons is the story of seven corporate titans in the food industry and their rise to power, with a lens on Iowa and the Midwest. Barons has received universal acclaim, including a coveted starred review from both Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews, and has been named one of the “Best Books of 2024” by the latter....

Feb 28, 2025

9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

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The College of Public Health is excited to announce the CPH Rural Health Summit. All are invited to learn about the impactful work in rural health being conducted across the college. We are honored to welcome Dr. Diane Hall, director of the Office of Rural Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Public Health Infrastructure Center, as the summit's keynote speaker. In addition, College of Public Health faculty, staff, students, postdocs, centers, and programs will highlig...

Mar 5, 2025

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

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Nearly everyone works with data in spreadsheets or tables. This workshop will provide you with hands-on experience in using a free tool, called OpenRefine, to check data in spreadsheets, and fix some common issues, from typos to splitting columns. OpenRefine is easy to use, will save you a lot of time, and it keeps track of the changes you’ve made so you can reuse them or roll them back. This workshop can be tailored for specific groups and disciplines. Follow-up sessions and individual con...

Mar 6, 2025

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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Both databases are multidisciplinary and allow you to measure scholarly impact. This hands-on session will show you: • How to quickly find the articles you need for you research or systematic review in each database. • How to track an article’s cited and citing references in each database. • How to find journal ‘Impact Factors’ using the Journal Citation Reports of Web of Science. • How to determine an author’s h-index. • How to identify a researcher and her/his publication track with S...

Mar 10, 2025

3:30 PM - 4:20 PM

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Christopher Quinn, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University Title and Abstract TBA. A Zoom link will be provided upon request to non-departmental attendees.

Mar 12, 2025

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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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: Class will be taught via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be emailed the Zoom link 30 minutes before the class time.

Mar 12, 2025

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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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.

Mar 26, 2025

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

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You’ve received funding for a project, and your research funder expects you to share the data. Or perhaps you are working on an article, and the journal requires you to share your data. In this workshop, we’ll walk through the process of preparing data for sharing or publication, important decisions to make, and ways to enable your data to have a broader impact. PLEASE NOTE Class will be taught via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be emailed the Zoom link 30 minutes...

Mar 26, 2025

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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Take a tour of some new (and some well-established) apps for your mobile device or smartphone! At this informal workshop, you’ll not only be shown a variety of tools for both academic and clinical use but also invited to share your own examples and experiences. If you don’t have a mobile device, don’t worry: The only necessary smart device is you! PLEASE NOTE Class will be taught via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be emailed the Zoom link 30 minutes before the cla...

Mar 27, 2025

All Day

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As calls for transnational solidarity among reproductive justice movements emerge, communities are asking how reproductive liberation is tethered to various social movements. Directed by Lina-Maria Murillo (Gender, Women's, & Sexuality Studies and History) and Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz (Communication Studies and Gender, Women's, & Sexuality Studies), this symposium brings together scholars and artists with local, regional, and global perspectives to bear on the pursuit of reproductive justice as ...

Mar 31, 2025

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Traveling abroad isn't just about the destination — it's about the journey. Learn how to travel mindfully, respecting cultures and making meaningful connections along the way. Join us to hear how other Hawkeyes have embraced mindful travel and made the most of their experiences abroad. The Study Abroad Conversation Series amplifies the voices of students who studied abroad allowing them to share their experiences and stories with students whether they have committed to studying abroad or no...

Apr 7, 2025

3:30 PM - 4:20 PM

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Devin Koestler, PhD Professor of Biostatistics & Data Science, KU Medical Center, University of Kansas Co-Director, Biostatistics and Informatics Shared Resource, KU Cancer Center Director, Quantitative 'Omics Core, Kansas Institute of Precision Medicine, KU Medical Center Title and Abstract TBA. Please note this seminar will be presented in S106 CPHB, which is a departure from our usual space. A Zoom link will be provided upon request to non-departmental attendees.

Apr 10, 2025

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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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 12, 2025

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

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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 16, 2025

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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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

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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

12:45 PM - 1:45 PM

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Join the Hubbell Environmental Law Initiative and the College of Law in welcoming Richard J. Lazarus, Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, for a talk about The Making of U.S. Environmental Law - with a particular emphasis on the Midwest. More about the discussion: Richard J. Lazarus offers a new interpretation of the past three decades of this area of the law, examining the legal, political, cultural, and scientific factors that have shaped — and sometimes hi...

Apr 21, 2025

3:30 PM - 4:20 PM

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Ronghui (Lily) Xu, PhD Professor, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health, University of California San Diego Faculty, UCSD Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, University of California San Diego Title and Abstract TBA. A Zoom link will be provided upon request to non-departmental attendees.

May 1, 2025

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

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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

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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 17, 2025

6:30 PM

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Doors open one hour prior to the start of the ceremony. Times, days, and locations are subject to change.

Jun 5, 2025

8:00 AM - 3:00 PM

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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.  

Jul 12, 2025

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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What types of plants, animals, and fungal life might you find at the Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory? Let's find out!  Join researchers in collecting, observing, and recording biodiversity at the Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory in our 5th Annual BioBlitz. Your findings will inform a major research project and will contribute to the fifth data point in a multi-year documentation of how diversity changes at this site over time. Collections will be housed with the UI Museum of Natural Histor...