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Are you a postdoc at the University of Iowa? The Postdoctoral Association is here for you! Join us the second Thursday of every month at 3 pm to find out how we can improve your experience and help you meet your goals. Email divya-rathi@uiowa.edu for information about how to join in person or over Zoom. 

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Upcoming Events

CLAS Staff Council DVIP Donation Drive promotional image

CLAS Staff Council DVIP Donation Drive

Wednesday, April 8 to Friday, April 17, 2026 (all day)
CLAS Staff Council
CLAS Staff Council DVIP Donation Drive
Call for Nominations: 2026 UI Family Spirit Award promotional image

Call for Nominations: 2026 UI Family Spirit Award

Wednesday, April 8 to Thursday, April 9, 2026 (all day)
Virtual
Calling all Hawkeyes! It’s time to nominate your favorite family for the 2026 University of Iowa Family Spirit Award.
Clara Reynen's MFA Thesis Exhibition "The Radical Reading Room — Planting seeds of radical hope with paper ✻ print ✻ propaganda" promotional image

Clara Reynen's MFA Thesis Exhibition "The Radical Reading Room — Planting seeds of radical hope with paper ✻ print ✻ propaganda"

Wednesday, April 8 to Saturday, April 11, 2026 (all day)
North Hall
Clara Reynen's MFA Thesis Exhibition "The Radical Reading Room — Planting seeds of radical hope with paper ✻ print ✻ propaganda"
Hope and fears: Why journalism remains essential in a time of global democratic erosion promotional image

Hope and fears: Why journalism remains essential in a time of global democratic erosion

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 6:00pm to 7:15pm
Iowa City Public Library
Prof. Silvio Waisbord will interrogate the global role of journalism as authoritarianism and populism gain ground and civil society faces escalating crises.

Joint Sophomore Recital: Josiah Goodlett, Bass and Kirsten Staker, Soprano

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Joint Sophomore Recital: Josiah Goodlett, Bass and Kirsten Staker, Soprano

This concert is free and open to the public.

CLAS Staff Council DVIP Donation Drive promotional image

CLAS Staff Council DVIP Donation Drive

Thursday, April 9 to Friday, April 17, 2026 (all day)
CLAS Staff Council
CLAS Staff Council DVIP Donation Drive
Call for Nominations: 2026 UI Family Spirit Award promotional image

Call for Nominations: 2026 UI Family Spirit Award

Thursday, April 9, 2026 (all day)
Virtual
Calling all Hawkeyes! It’s time to nominate your favorite family for the 2026 University of Iowa Family Spirit Award.
Clara Reynen's MFA Thesis Exhibition "The Radical Reading Room — Planting seeds of radical hope with paper ✻ print ✻ propaganda" promotional image

Clara Reynen's MFA Thesis Exhibition "The Radical Reading Room — Planting seeds of radical hope with paper ✻ print ✻ propaganda"

Thursday, April 9 to Saturday, April 11, 2026 (all day)
North Hall
Clara Reynen's MFA Thesis Exhibition "The Radical Reading Room — Planting seeds of radical hope with paper ✻ print ✻ propaganda"
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Carmichael Symposium Call for Participants

Thursday, April 9 to Friday, April 10, 2026 (all day)
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)

CBE has a long and distinguished history of outstanding research and graduate student training. This is best exemplified by the pioneering work of Karl Kammermeyer (department head 1949-1972) on membrane separations initiated in late 1940s. Greg Carmichael, the Karl Kammermeyer Professor, has been part of CBE for nearly 50 years and served as department chair for 14 years and associate dean for research and graduate studies in the college for another dozen years. The research conducted by his...

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Top Hat Student Response System

Thursday, April 9, 2026 8:30am to 9:30am
Virtual

Top Hat has several options to engage students with in-class quizzes, surveys, and discussions, as well as attendance features that connect to the ICON gradebook. Learn how to get started with this platform and get ideas to adapt it to your courses.

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The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and services to optimize teaching and learning through learning sciences research, ICON, teaching and learning data, and advanced classroom and...

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Recent Events

Below are UIPDA events and activities during the 2025 fall semester. 

 

Invited Industry Talk 

Speaker: Justin Topp, Senior Manager, IDT 
Date: December 12, 2025 
Location: Seebohm Conference Room, EMRB 
Sponsor: Graduate College 
 

Book Club First Meetup

Date: December 10, 2025 
Location: The Greenhouse 
Organizer: Rachel Kehrberg 
Attendance: 4 participants

 

UIPDA Holiday Party 

Date: December 3, 2025 
Attendance: 25 participants

 

Zoom Watch Party and Career Talk

Speaker: Chris Rader, CTO, Aethon Therapeutics 
Date: November 3, 2025 
Location: PBDB, Zoom watch party 
Sponsors: CLAS, HCCC, INI, CoE 
Attendance: 18 participants

 

2025 Career Ladder Program 

Dates: September to October 2025 
Format: Multi session career development series 
Average attendance: 9 participants per session 
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