We learned that one of the toughest parts about the start of the semester for most students is none other than homesickness. Show your loved ones you're thinking about them by sending a University of Iowa Museum of Natural History or Old Capitol Museum postcard. We've got all the materials and we'll take care of the postage and mailing.Find us on the Pentacrest Monday, Sept. 89:30–11:30 a.m. Stay connected, Hawkeyes!

Need some inspiration to keep you motivated for the fall semester? Help envision your best self through vision board making, Sept. 8 from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Hawkeye Room at the IMU. Hope to see you there getting crafty!

With special guest Lindsey KraftPart of Hancher's 53rd seasonAn artist whose career has unfolded in a myriad of genre-bending ways sits down at the piano.Widely regarded as a major music influencer of his generation, Ben Folds is an Emmy-nominated singer-songwriter-composer who has created an enormous body of work. His catalog includes pop albums with Ben Folds Five, multiple solo albums, and numerous collaborative records. As the tour title suggests, this time out he’s getting down to basics...

Take your prompting skills to the next level in this advanced AI prompting session. 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.Participants will explore advanced prompting strategies including multi-step task execution, structured output formatting, and iterative refinement through practical application and project development. The...

This is the first step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will build a new REDCap project from scratch and cover basic features such as: • Building forms with proper field types and validation • Assigning user permissions • Project backup and overview with data dictionary, codebook, pdf, and xml • Ensuring your project works properly by testing with real world application • Making mid-study modifications safely after having started data collection in production • Creating...

Insights into hippocampal function from studies on synaptic plasticity in area CA2Serena M. Dudek, PhDSenior Investigator and Acting Chief, Neurobiology LaboratoryNational Institute of Environmental Health, NIH

Brittany Todd is a PhD candidate in the Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Graduate Program, as well as a student in the Medical Scientist Training Program. Her research has been with Drs. Alexander Bassuk and Elizabeth Newell's laboratories.If you are unable to attend in person, please consider showing your support and attending via Zoom. Please email britt-hokanson@uiowa.edu for the zoom link.

This training will provide an in-depth look at TriNetX and show you how to use the tool. We will go through building a study, searching for a specific population, and finally what information you can gather from the specific cohort. We will also discuss next steps on getting data extracted for research. After this training you will have a thorough understanding of how to use TriNetX and what the process is to get data extracted for research studies. Register by clicking the virtual event link...

Wavelet methods in quantum field theoryWayne Polyzou, PhDThis is a talk that I will present (by zoom) at JLAB later this month.I will discuss a representation of local quantum fields using Daubechies' wavelets, which are fractal-valued functions that are useful for data compression (related functions are used in jpeg photographs, the film industry, and the FBI fingerprint database). Basis functions are generated from the fixed point of a renormalization group equation by scale transformations...