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 every first Friday of every month at 4 pm to find out how we can improve your experience and help you meet your goals. Email marie-grace-jones@uiowa.edu for information about how to join in person or over Zoom. Mask wearing is strongly encouraged for in person attendance.
Postdoc Networking Survey
Share your areas of expertise, connect with those with similar interests, and build collaborations.
UIPDA LinkedIn Group
This group is open to current and former postdocs at the UI who wish to network, provide career advice, and aid in career transitions.
UI Postdocs in the News
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UI announces recipients of Discovery and Innovation awards (Dr. Kyle Flippo, CCOM; Dr. Yen Nguyen, Engineering)
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Filwett awarded NASA funds for proposed LOBSTR mission (Dr. Rachael Filwett, CLAS)
- Eighty-two of the University of Iowa's rising stars are showcased on banners downtown (Dr. Calvin Carter, CCOM; Dr. Jue Hu, CCOM; Dr. Isaac Hooley, CoEd; Dr. Krishna Kumar Patel, Pharmacy, Dr. Laura Perry, Obermann Center)
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UI neuroscientist empowers women to code (Dr. Victoria Muller Ewald, CCOM)
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New University of Iowa podcast shares stories, tips for farm safety and health (Dr. Kate Crawford, CPH)
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Angela Pack on molecular warfare, mentorship, and diversity (Dr. Angela Pack, CCOM)
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Andrea Marshall: Inspiring the next generation of diverse scientists (Dr. Andrea Marshall, CCOM)
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2021 OVPR Postdoctoral Research Scholar/Fellow Excellence Awards announced (Dr. Enrique (David) Degallado, CoEd & Dr. Rachael Filwett, CLAS)
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Get to know the UI Research Foundation post-doc fellows (Drs. Hozhabr Mozafari and Sarah Sapouckey, UIRF)
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Antentor Hinton receives inaugural DEI Inclusion Leadership Award (Dr. Antentor Hinton, Jr., CCOM)
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Black researchers at the University of Iowa names to inspiring-scientists list (Drs. Calvin Carter, Antentor Hinton, Jr., Andrea Marshall, CCOM)
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Researcher creates list of inspiring black scientists (Dr. Antentor Hinton, Jr., CCOM)
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University of Iowa researchers discover electromagnetic fields treat diabetes in mice (Dr. Calvin Carter, CCOM)
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UI researchers using virtual reality to study ways children cross streets (Dr. Elizabeth O’Neal, CLAS)
Postdoc Featured Communities
Read more about the UI postdoc population and find resources for our 2024-2025 featured population: Postdoc Parents
Get involved!
We are looking for postdocs to serve as committee members and college reps.
Upcoming Events
Women In Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour
Monday, January 13, 11:00am to Monday, December 8, 2025 12:00pm
Join us for the Women in Micro & Immuno Coffee Hour. It is the monthly coffee hour on the second Monday of the month from 11 a.m. to noon in 1289 CBRB. Enjoy coffee, pastries and contribute to the discussion!
This is open to ALL — students, staff, postdocs, and faculty interested in promoting women in science.
Speakers change monthly. Contact: jessica-tucker@uiowa.edu for details.
Course Accessibility for Everyone (CAFE): Alternative Text
Wednesday, January 15, 2025 8:30am to 9:30am
Join us to learn some basics to help make your ICON course site accessible to all your students. This session will be focusing on how and why to use alternative text in your course site. We'll talk about why alternative text is important and practice writing alt text for images for your courses. By making these simple changes to your ICON site, you're making your course accessible for everyone.
Register to attend.
The Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology provides expertise, tools, and...
REDCap MyCap Training
Wednesday, January 15, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
This is the fifth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will discuss using the MyCap mobile app for data collection. We will cover features such as:
Creating participants
Creating tasks and schedules
Active tasks and their unique data output
Direct messages and announcements
This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training, you will have a basic understanding of the MyCap mobile app for REDCap.
Register by clicking the virtual event link above or by going...
Rocklin Teaching and Learning Speaker Series: Dr. Bryan Dewsbury
Thursday, January 16, 2025 10:00am to 12:00pm
We will revisit a more comprehensive view of what is possible from a high-quality education experience. While subject matter expertise will always be important, college classrooms afford us an opportunity to engage the whole student in ways that prepares them to be respectful, engaged, and open-minded members of an evolving democracy. For this to happen we must define our teaching as an opportunity to walk students from their current state of readiness to a place where they can view and work...
REDCap Data Handling
Thursday, January 16, 2025 10:00am to 11:00am
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...