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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LNACC in Action Week

Tuesday, March 3 to Friday, March 6, 2026 (all day)
Latino Native American Cultural Center
LNACC in Action Week
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Intuitive Eating Workshop for Students

Tuesday, March 3, 2026 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Campus Recreation and Wellness Center

Intuitive Eating is an approach that teaches you how to create a healthy relationship with your food, mind, and body. It is based on 10 basic principles that invite you to a world of satisfying eating and a sense of freedom from dieting.

The four-week workshop is free for students and will provide education, activities, practice, and support to improve your food and body image awareness.

Register for the summer workshop by visiting our website.

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UI Monthly Jazz Jam

Tuesday, March 3, 2026 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Tavern Blue
Jazz Studies faculty members host a monthly community jazz jam session

Faculty Chamber Recital: Piano Sextets

Tuesday, March 3, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

Faculty Chamber Recital: Piano Sextets

Click here for program.

This concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.

This concert is free and open to the public. 

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LNACC in Action Week

Wednesday, March 4 to Friday, March 6, 2026 (all day)
Latino Native American Cultural Center
LNACC in Action Week
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Pain Interest Group Seminar - Stephani Sutherland, PhD

Wednesday, March 4, 2026 9:00am to 10:00am
Medical Education Research Facility

Science communication in pain research and society

Stephani Sutherland, PhD
Science Writer
Communications Director
Acute to Chronic Pain Signatures (A2CPS) Consortium
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University

REDCap Intermediate Training

Wednesday, March 4, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This is the second step in the REDCap training series. In this training we will cover basic and intermediate features such as:
• Outputting data automatically with calculated fields
• Collecting the same data points multiple times with longitudinal and one-to-many data collection
• Standardizing your data to industry standards with ontologies and the REDCap Instrument Library
• Ways to customize your data entry experience with action tags
• Viewing data with reports, dashboards, and charts
• And more

T...

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CSD Professional Seminar Series

Wednesday, March 4, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual

Title: "Neural Encoding of Complex Acoustic Cues: Implications for Spatial Hearing"

Speaker: Aditi Gargeshwari, Ph.D.

Understanding speech and locating sound sources are fundamental to everyday communication, yet these abilities are often profoundly disrupted in individuals with hearing loss, even when sounds are made audible through amplification or cochlear implants. In this talk, I examine how temporal fine structure (TFS) and envelope (ENV) cues support sound localization, and how limitations...

Spring 2026 IRB Office Hours

Wednesday, March 4, 2026 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Virtual
IRB Office Hours are for all UI faculty, staff, and Investigators, HawkIRB delegates, and research team members involved with Human Subjects research.

Leveraging Microsoft Copilot: How AI Can Assist You

Wednesday, March 4, 2026 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Virtual
An introductory training on Copilot
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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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