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. 

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

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Upcoming Events

Call for Nominations: 2026 UI Family Spirit Award promotional image

Call for Nominations: 2026 UI Family Spirit Award

Sunday, April 5 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.
CLAS Staff Council DVIP Donation Drive promotional image

CLAS Staff Council DVIP Donation Drive

Monday, April 6 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

Monday, April 6 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.

Clarence Tow Seminar Series in Economics: Rohit Allena

Monday, April 6, 2026 10:45am to 12:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building

Rohit Allena is an assistant professor at the University of Houston.

AI Prompting (Advanced): Elevating your Craft

Monday, April 6, 2026 11:00am to 12:00pm
Virtual
Designed for users who already understand the basics, this session dives deeper into prompt engineering techniques to generate more precise, creative, and impactful generative artificial intelligence responses.
OSA Brown Bag | A Forgotten Excavation: Seeberger Cave promotional image

OSA Brown Bag | A Forgotten Excavation: Seeberger Cave

Monday, April 6, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Clinton Street Building
Join Bill Green, OSA Adjunct Research Associate and former Iowa State Archaeologist, as he presents an OSA Brown Bag talk on excavations at Seeberger Cave. This program is free and open to the public. It will also be viewable via Zoom.
Virtual Clinical Science Rounds (via Zoom): Adam Bramoweth promotional image

Virtual Clinical Science Rounds (via Zoom): Adam Bramoweth

Monday, April 6, 2026 12:30pm to 1:20pm
Virtual

Dr. Bramoweth, PhD, DBSM, is a Research Health Scientist at VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System (VAPHS) in the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP) and the VISN4 Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC). He is also a Staff psychologist at VAPHS in the Behavioral Medicine Clinic where he treats behavioral sleep disorders, particularly chronic insomnia. His program of research is focused on improving access to insomnia care using methods from implementation...

Frontiers in Obesity, Diabetes and Metabolism Seminar - M. Furkan Burak, MD promotional image

Frontiers in Obesity, Diabetes and Metabolism Seminar - M. Furkan Burak, MD

Monday, April 6, 2026 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Pappajohn Biomedical Discovery Building

Guest speaker, Furkan Burak, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine from Harvard Medical School will be giving a talk title, "The fat talks and the body listens! The effects of palmitoleic acid on metabolic syndrome".

Grief and Mourning Support Group

Monday, April 6, 2026 3:00pm to 4:30pm
University Services Building
UI Employee Assistance Program is offering a four-part series to support employees interested in exploring grief related to the loss of a loved one.

Nuclear & Particle Physics Seminar - Aparajitha Karthikeyan; Texas A&M University

Monday, April 6, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Van Allen Hall
Nuclear & Particle Physics Seminar
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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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