The UIPDA advocates for all Postdocs at the University of Iowa.
For postdocs, by postdocs.

 

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. 

Featured Community

Read about the UI postdoc population and find resources for our 2025-2026 featured population: Postdoc Parents

Get involved with UIPDA

We are looking for postdocs to serve as committee members and college reps.

Grad Postdoc Listserv

This Listserv is used to communicate news and events about the UIPDA.

Upcoming Events

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CLAS Staff Council DVIP Donation Drive

Wednesday, April 15 to Friday, April 17, 2026 (all day)
CLAS Staff Council
CLAS Staff Council DVIP Donation Drive
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Stitching with Sandra Sawatzky: Embroidery Workshop

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 5:30pm to 7:30pm
MERGE

Join artist Sandra Sawatzky to embroider your own horse chestnut tree! This same type of tree is part of The Black Gold Tapestry on display at the Stanley Museum of Art and the same tree that Anne Frank looked at out of the annex window while in hiding. Create a beautiful embroidery and visit the Anne Frank Sapling, a descendant of the original tree, on the UI Pentacrest. All materials will be provided by the Anne Frank Initiative (AFI). No experience necessary, but participants must be at least...

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Trivia Night @ the Museum

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Old Capitol Museum
The very popular Trivia Night @ the Museum inside the historic Senate Chamber at the Old Capitol Museum is back!
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Lab Chamber Orchestra

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Lab Chamber Orchestra

This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule.

This concert is free and open to the public.

Canceled
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CLAS Staff Council DVIP Donation Drive

Thursday, April 16 to Friday, April 17, 2026 (all day)
CLAS Staff Council
CLAS Staff Council DVIP Donation Drive
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Association of Ancient Historians Meeting 2026

Thursday, April 16 to Saturday, April 18, 2026 (all day)
University of Iowa
Association of Ancient Historians Meeting 2026 supported by the Department of History, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Obermann Center, and the Perry A. and Helen J. Bond Fund for Interdisciplinary Interaction at the University of Iowa

Spring 2026 IRB Office Hours

Thursday, April 16, 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.

REDCap Data Handling

Thursday, April 16, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This is the sixth and final step in the REDCap training series. In this training we won't use REDCap at all. Instead, we will cover ways to view and manage your exported REDCap data in Microsoft Excel and Sublime Text such as:

Populating data from one Excel sheet to another with vlookup()

Seeing specific data with column sorting and filtering

Ensuring data is cohesive by creating tables

Looking at how data relates to other data by creating pivot tables

Transforming unusable data to a usable format...

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Fountain Lobby Blood Drive

Thursday, April 16, 2026 11:00am to 4:00pm
General Hospital
The DeGowin Blood Center is hosting a blood drive from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on April 16th, 2026, at the Fountain Lobby in the ground floor of the main hospital.
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What Your Students Wish You Knew About ICON

Thursday, April 16, 2026 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Virtual

This session will cover ways to set up and organize your ICON site so students can easily navigate it, complete work, and monitor their progress.

Register for the event.

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 instructional technology. To learn more about the services we offer, please visit our website at teach.its.uiowa...

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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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