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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Intuitive Eating Workshop for Students

Tuesday, February 17, 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.

DMA Qualifying Recital: Jacob White, horn

Tuesday, February 17, 2026 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building

DMA Qualifying Recital: Jacob White, horn

Click here for concert 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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Men's basketball vs. Nebraska

Tuesday, February 17, 2026 8:00pm
Carver-Hawkeye Arena
The Iowa men's basketball team hosts Nebraska.

Getting started with Linux Command Line on Argon (Zoom)

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 10:00am to 11:30am
Virtual

This workshop is geared toward UI researchers who are not familiar with the Linux command line environment. It covers essential and fundamental Linux shell commands to help users develop their way to Linux mastery. This workshop will NOT cover advanced commands and shell scripts. Prior coding and Linux experience are not required. Doosoo Yoon in the ITS Research Services team will lead this workshop.

It will be lectured by Doosoo Yoon from Research Services and will include hands-on training.

The...

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Accessibility Focus: Writing Effective ALT Text

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 12:00pm to 12:45pm
Virtual
ALT text is a core concept in digital accessibility. Join us to learn some practices for providing better ALT text.
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CSD Professional Seminar Series

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual

Title: "Perception of complex sounds across frequency"

Speaker: Daniel Guest, Ph.D.

Detection and analysis of complex sounds is essential for speech communication and making sense of the acoustic environment. In this talk, I will present several experiments that compare complex sound perception at low (below ~4 kHz) and high frequencies (above ~4 kHz) and reveal fundamental limitations in our ability to analyze complex sounds at higher frequencies. I will demonstrate how physiological models of...

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University of Iowa Sound Awareness for Everyone: Promoting Healthy Hearing in Public Health

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 12:30pm to 1:30pm
College of Public Health Building
Doctor of Audiology Graduate Students will join faculty, staff, and students at the College of Public Health to discuss basics of hearing loss, healthy hearing habits, as well as the intersectionality of audiology and public health.
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From Statutes to Soil: How Environmental Law and Geoscience Interact in Practice

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Boyd Law Building

What happens when environmental lawyers and geoscientists team up to tackle contaminated sites? Join Iowa Law alum Michael Dunning (Partner at Perkins Coie) and David Cook (Principal Geologist at the State of Washington Water Research Center) for a candid conversation on real-world collaboration at the intersection of law, science, and redevelopment - from hazardous waste cleanup to major urban projects. This joint HELI-SEES session will explore why interdisciplinary fluency isn’t just useful in...

Spring 2026 IRB Office Hours

Wednesday, February 18, 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.
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Astrophysics & Space Physics Seminar - Associate Professor Ken Gayley; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Iowa

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Van Allen Hall
Astrophysics & Space 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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