Upcoming Events

REDCap Data Handling

Thursday, November 13, 2025 10:00am to 11:59pm
Virtual

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 usable format...

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Mental Health & Well-Being Pecha Kucha: Engage the Innovators

Thursday, November 13, 2025 12:00pm to 4:00pm
University Capitol Centre

Join us for the University of Iowa's second annual Mental Health & Well-Being Pecha Kucha! Pecha Kucha is Japanese for chit-chat and emphasizes storytelling via imagery over words. This fun, interactive, and highly engaging workshop style elevates the voices of our campus “mental health and well-being innovators” to provide you:

New ways of thinking about your work from a mental health & well-being lens

Tangible takeaways about innovative mental health & well-being practices occurring on campus

Con...

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2025 Three Minute Thesis Competition

Thursday, November 13, 2025 1:30pm to 3:30pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)

The University of Iowa’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition challenges graduate students to clearly and concisely articulate complex research to nonspecialist audiences.
Join us on Nov. 13 at the Iowa Memorial Union (IMU) International Ballroom.

The 3MT competition will be held from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the IMU International Ballroom (2nd floor). Join us to see our amazing 3MT finalists present their incredible research at the final competition. This event is open to the entire UI campus and...

Story Lab Showcase Prep (MERGE)

Thursday, November 13, 2025 3:00pm to 5:00pm
MERGE
Final practice before the showcase!

Plasma Physics Seminar - Daniel Groselj, Ph.D.; KU Leuven

Thursday, November 13, 2025 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Van Allen Hall
Plasma Physics Seminar
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DeLTA Center Colloquium: Kaya de Barbaro

Thursday, November 13, 2025 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Gilmore Hall

Dr. de Barbaro is an Associate Professor of Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin.

Interests: behavior, social interactions, development, dynamical systems theory, mobile sensing, machine learning, and mental health

Presentation title and abstract to come.

Kaya’s Bio Page: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/psychology/faculty/kd26254

Soft Actuation with Smart Materials: A Bioinspired Approach

Thursday, November 13, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Seamans Center

Mechanical Engineering Graduate Seminar

Presentation: Soft robotics is an emerging discipline focused on developing machines composed of compliant materials that mimic the adaptability and dexterity of biological organisms. Unlike traditional rigid systems, soft robots can safely interact with humans and conform to complex, unstructured environments. This seminar presents the design, fabrication, and characterization of bioinspired soft robotic systems that employ Twisted and Coiled Artificial...

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Commitment to Internationalization Lecture: Iowa alumna Karri Goeldner Byrne to discuss private sector’s role in global humanitarian response

Thursday, November 13, 2025 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Old Capitol Museum
University of Iowa (UI) alumna Karri Goeldner Byrne (BA communication theory ‘92) will deliver the 2025 Commitment to Internationalization Lecture, Navigating the Unpredictable: The Private Sector as Partners in Humanitarian Response.
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Native Policy Lab Open House

Thursday, November 13, 2025 5:00pm to 7:30pm
The Green House
Learn more about Native Policy Lab projects!
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Public Lecture: Entangled Ecologies: Memory, Place, and the Camellia Forests of Jeju

Thursday, November 13, 2025 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Virtual
Drawing on ethnographic research with Jeju villagers, conservationists, and environmental activists, Dr. Jeongsu Shin, LB Korean Studies postdoctoral associate in the East Asia Program at Cornell University, will explore how memory, ecology, and place intertwine in Jeju’s Giving Forest.