2025 Schedule

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Exhibition - A Roll of the Dice: Symbolism in the Sackner Archive

Thursday, May 1 to Friday, June 27, 2025 (all day)
University of Iowa Main Library
In 1897, French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé revolutionized the world of graphic design with a single poem that forever changed the way we look at words. His work illustrated how text conveys meaning not only through words, but also as visual symbols that contain a deeper meaning. For over 125 years, artists and writers have continued to explore the mystery of Mallarmé’s poem “Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard” [A throw of the dice will never abolish chance]. This exhibition...

Spring 2025 Office Hours

Thursday, May 1, 2025 10:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual
Office Hours: 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.
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Microsoft Teams: An Introduction

Thursday, May 1, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
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 chat, creating a team, communicating in a team, meetings, 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...
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Hardin Open Workshops - PubMed (In Person and Zoom)

Thursday, May 1, 2025 11:30am to 12:30pm
Hardin Library for Health Sciences
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.

Neuroscience & Pharmacology Workshop - Abigail (Abby) Morrison and Julius Yevdash

Thursday, May 1, 2025 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Medical Education Research Facility
Presented by Abby Morrison Graduate Student in Dr. Kristina Thiel's lab Presented by Julius Yevdash Graduate student in the labs of Drs. Colin Kenny and Robert Weigel
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Course Accessibility for Everyone (CAFE): Documents and Files

Thursday, May 1, 2025 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Virtual
Join us to learn some basics to help make your ICON course site accessible to all your students. This session will be focusing on ensuring the documents and files in your site are usable by all your students. We'll talk about why and how to make sure your PDFs are navigable and can be read by screen reading programs, as well as other document types as necessary. By making these changes to your ICON site, you're making your course accessible for everyone. Register to attend. The Office of...
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History Senior Send-off

Thursday, May 1, 2025 5:00pm to 6:30pm
University Capitol Centre
History majors and minors are invited to the annual Senior Send-off!
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Success, Not Excess

Thursday, May 1, 2025 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)
Supporting Students Desiring a Change 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...
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Free CPR/AED, Red Watch Band Training

Thursday, May 1, 2025 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Campus Recreation and Wellness Center
The Red Watch Band Program focuses on knowledge, skill, and confidence building regarding preventing death from alcohol overdose. Students are taught the knowledge and skills to "make the call," and using role plays, given opportunities to build confidence to intervene on behalf of another. All students who complete the training will receive CPR and alcohol bystander training, and will be better able to link the impact that alcohol has on the body. Students will also receive training on how to...

Iowa Symphony Band

Thursday, May 1, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Iowa Symphony Band This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream. This concert is free and open to the public.

Center for New Music Ensemble V with Guest Artists: Ligament Duo

Thursday, May 1, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Center for New Music Ensemble V with Guest Artists: Ligament Duo More concert details can be viewed here on the Center for New Music website: https://cnm.uiowa.edu/ This concert is free and open to the public.
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Exhibition - A Roll of the Dice: Symbolism in the Sackner Archive

Friday, May 2 to Friday, June 27, 2025 (all day)
University of Iowa Main Library
In 1897, French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé revolutionized the world of graphic design with a single poem that forever changed the way we look at words. His work illustrated how text conveys meaning not only through words, but also as visual symbols that contain a deeper meaning. For over 125 years, artists and writers have continued to explore the mystery of Mallarmé’s poem “Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard” [A throw of the dice will never abolish chance]. This exhibition...

Leveraging Microsoft Copilot: How AI Can Assist You

Friday, May 2, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual
This introductory level training will help you discover how Copilot works, explore its capabilities, and learn practical tips for effective interactions.

Tow Lecture in Finance: Richard Thakor

Friday, May 2, 2025 10:30am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building
Richard Thakor is an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Minnesota.

Founding Mothers Support Group

Friday, May 2, 2025 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Boyd Law Building
This support group is led by Social Worker Sam for any student enrolled at Iowa Law who wishes to explore gender dynamics in law school. The invitation is to come together on a regular basis to vent, process, plan, and support each other. There is no long-term commitment and no need to attend consistently. If you are interested in attending, please email Social Worker Sam to receive and review a copy of the group’s Constitution before attending. All attendees must sign the group’s Constitution...
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Basic Life Support (BLS) Recertification - May 2, 2025

Friday, May 2, 2025 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Dental Science Building
Live Demonstration Course: Basic Life Support (BLS) Recertification
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Hardin Open Workshops - EndNote Desktop (Zoom)

Friday, May 2, 2025 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Virtual
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.

Faculty Colloquium - Introduction to Guacamole Ecosystems

Friday, May 2, 2025 2:30pm to 3:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
Viri Hernández - Introduction to Guacamole Ecosystems
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Basic Life Support (BLS) Recertification - May 2, 2025

Friday, May 2, 2025 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Dental Science Building
Live Demonstration Course: Basic Life Support (BLS) Recertification

Colloquium- Dr. Chris Anderton

Friday, May 2, 2025 3:30pm
Pappajohn Business Building
Dr. Chris Anderton, Chemist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory https://www.pnnl.gov/people/christopher-anderton Bio: Dr. Chris Anderton is the team leader for the Biogeochemical Transformations team in PNNL’s Environmental Molecular Sciences Division and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) user program. He has an extensive background in elucidating chemical interactions occurring across all kingdoms of life, including those within soils and the rhizosphere.    ...
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Iowa Softball vs. Rutgers

Friday, May 2, 2025 5:00pm
Pearl Softball Field
The Iowa softball team hosts Rutgers.

Tuba/Euphonium Studio Recital for International Tuba Day

Friday, May 2, 2025 5:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Tuba/Euphonium Studio Recital for International Tuba Day Members of the University of Iowa Tuba Euphonium studio, directed by Professor John Manning and Drew Bonner.   This concert is free and open to the public.
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Art & Write Night

Friday, May 2, 2025 6:00pm to 8:00pm
University of Iowa Museum of Natural History
Join the long, rich, historical tradition of artists creating in our spaces. Professional, aspiring, and amateur artists alike, make our museum your muse. The return of this popular program series welcomes guests into the Museum of Natural History's magical gallery spaces after-hours to work on sketching or writing projects with other campus and community artists. Tell a friend, grab a notebook, and join us on the first Friday of each month. We'll provide a new inspo prompt for each session...

Black Pop Music Ensemble

Friday, May 2, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Black Pop Music Ensemble This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule. This concert is free and open to the public.

Masters Recital: Orson Sproule, jazz drum set

Friday, May 2, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Masters Recital: Orson Sproule, jazz drum set Orson Sproule, Drum Set Jose Medrano, Bass Vincent Malan, Alto Saxophone Joseph Shanks, Guitar This concert is free and open to the public.